Web Blues

Convinced I am falling out of love with the internet. It used to be id log on eager to learn something new or thrilled at the prospect of getting involved in a forum debate, but all this is rapidly disappearing. The excitement is flakier than Dodo bones. Seems ive done it all, earned the tee shirt and now after a quick glance at online newspapers and a kickabout on social media, all I want to do is log off again. Probably long overdue.
You see Ive been online since 1999 and the days of the Sega Dreamcast. The Dream Arena was my first taste of chat rooms and message boards, it was the place I heard "LOL" for the first time. It was new, alien, a digital frontier waiting to be explored by hip young cowboys who preferred joysticks over six shooters. I couldn't wait to sign in, to escape the humdrum of real life and get sucked into a kind of virtual playground. That's how most of us saw the internet back then but fast forward almost 15 years to a place where Smartphones and Tablets are everyday devices, and 'LOL' is as commonly used as 'Thank You' and much has changed. I certainly have, and with it my attitude of the great WWW highway.
I just spend 20 minutes staring at the Yahoo screen in a miserable 'limbo', not knowing what to do next. Just sat letting the computer backlight hypnotise me into some kind of pause, a bit like being lost at sea. So tired of it all. I saw it coming a while ago when I noticed I was visiting forums less. Over the years I have made great friends on internet message boards, some really wonderful people who some I regard as part of an extended family (may sound odd to some but its true), but when even they could not inspire me to log on (it wasn't them, it was the internet) I knew there was trouble in paradise. Or trouble on Google.
And like I say, its not a people issue (although certain figures grate), its the internet itself; the endless words, the anonymous
hands hitting the keyboard, pop up adverts, everything dotcom feels flat.