Hello and welcome. I'm not sure what this place is for yet~
So I have a hoarding problem. I like to hoard digital content in particular, be it audio, videos, text or images. The truth is, I feel like we all do, to a degree. And it's by design.
Buut I'm getting ahead of myself. I want to discuss a flaw of online information aka why online will never totally replace the offline. It's why online education falls short to real one or why vinyls and physical books are making a comeback.
The truth is that there's too much content online. And that has been the state of things for a while online, but it's more apparent nowadays in the age of algorithms when we are fed thousands of images or videos in an instant. It's just not as expensive to produce and create so we end up with more of it. Thought does that mean that there is no good content left?
Truth be told, I think there's still meaningful content online, and it doesn't have to be hidden deep on a torrenting site from 2004. Sigh, it's almost as if the disposability algorithms left us with made me look all over the Internet for something worthwhile, something different. Because medium we use to consume matters. A new site is a new experience. A funny cat on Reddit doesn't hit the same as a funny cat irl.
One last thought: do algorithms make us numb to meaningful content to a point of it mattering only if it's popular (or ultra nieche?!). Has this level of convinience made us unappriciative of the effort that goes into creating an art piece posted online? Just how much more effort will we constantly have to put to create something "passable" and not mediocre online (Where has the old, unprofessional, "amateurish" Internet gone?). How do we find meaning in it all?
Further reading: https://medium.com/disruptive-design/design-for-disposability-962647cbcbb0