foothills

i have noticed lately that the web is starting to become some peoples dirty secret. so a lot of people will pull back and not use a computer or the web or blogs or email to sort of diminish their online presence as a knee jerk solution to something. in fact i read somewhere that a large percentage of the blogs to date will be nixed in the coming year as people realize they dont really give a shit about posting things online and probably also due to the fact that they were losers to begin with and blogging about their loserdom was too depressing. i think its interesting. mainly because although i sometimes am not social on the internet i am constantly utilizing it and my v persona is usually intact. in other words i have never seen it as a bad thing to immediately consult wikipedia google elsevier medline or anything else for that matter that gets me information i need. that includes people i know. it also means i doubt i will stop blogging or flicking or emailing simply because people stop replying. it only makes sense. i may change the mode but the impetus will still be intact. when i see other people who are online quite a bit as well who all but kill their online persona off briefly i wonder what prompts them to do that. i have recently noted that given the nearly infinite photo storage on flickr that my memory has become strongly associative with events that i post online, including the accompanying meta data. so if i was to simply eliminate that i guess my brain would adapt but it would be like working out a lot and feeling good about it and then deciding time to go back to eating a shitload of fast food and pork all the time. not really a move forward. i dont really know what prompted this. could be plastikman in the background.