Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan >>Warning: The internet is almost full Due to the extraordinary explosion in video, blogs, news feeds and social network postings, the internet is dangerously close to running out of room. Nothing can grow forever, and exponential growth is always short lived. We're running out of disk space, so if you have something left to say, better hurry. Once it's full, it's full. Of course, the decentralized nature of the net means that it will never be physically full. As long as we can keep making hard drives, we won't run out of space to store those inane videos of your Aunt Sally. What is full is our attention. Ten years ago, you had a shot of at least being aware of everything that mattered. Five years ago, you had to be really selective about what you took in, but at least it was possible to know what you didn't know. Today, it's impossible. Today, you can't even read every article on a thin slice of a thin topic. You can't keep up with the status of your friends on the social networks. No way. You can't read every important blog... you can't even read all the blogs that tell you what the important blogs are saying. Used to be, you could finish reading your email, hit "check email" and nothing new would show up. Now, of course, the new mail is probably a longer list than the mail you just finished processing. The internet isn't full, but we are.<< <a href="http://sethgodin.typepad.com/" target="_blank">http://sethgodin.typepad.com/</a> Agree? Or no? What do you have time to read? More importantly, what do you MAKE time to read? Books? Newspapers? Magazines? Websites? Text messages?
Originally Posted By Ursula I make time for books. I love chick lit so I read that, plus any interesting titles that come my way. I read a few blogs, but not regularly. I used to read the daily Bleat, but I lost too much time. I LOVE when I come across a newspaper and I can read it. Like at the oil change place. I just don't have time daily to read newspapers any longer. I even switched to weekend-only, but even that took away took much of my time, so that was stopped. I read a few message boards online, but that is just my social nature to converse with others. I don't have local friends outside of work people.
Originally Posted By ecdc Newspapers, this website, a handful of others. I've cut down in my perusing of the interwebs significantly. I'm still an addict, but I need to have some control.
Originally Posted By DAR <<Agree? Or no?>> << What do you have time to read? More importantly, what do you MAKE time to read? Books? Newspapers? Magazines? Websites? Text messages?>> I make time to read once a day at least all of those things. I tend to read a chapter or two a day of any book I might be reading. I get the newspaper everyday, several magazines a week, so I take the time with those. I have several go to sites, here, ESPN, IGN, Cnn, Fox News. I only text or receive them if I'm somewhere it's kind of noisy ie sporting event. But you know what's one way we can prevent the internet from being full, how about taking out some of the porn, not all(a man has his needs).
Originally Posted By ecdc I should add, I recently bought an Amazon Kindle in the hopes that it would rekindle (no pun intended) my love of reading. With school and work I rarely have the time to read a book anymore; 2 years ago I was reading at least a book every couple of weeks. So far, mission accomplished. The money I spent on the Kindle guarantees that I'll use it, otherwise I'll feel like it was a waste. I used to get the New York Times on the Kindle, but it's too expensive to justify when the same content is on the web.
Originally Posted By avromark Errr e-mail? If it's not work related my turn around time is slower than my snail mail turn around
