I was talking to my friend Matt the other day, and we started to talk about how we’re now bored online. We first met on the internet (through deviantART, to be precise), and being the nerdy kids we were, spent lots of our time online. However, now we just can’t remember what we used to spend all that time doing. I guess as I’ve got older I’ve started to spend more time out ‘in the real world’- studying, going out with friends, spending time with my partner, and so on. I just have nothing to do online after I’ve checked my emails, facebook, webcomics. Of course, these three things still mean I go online every day (sad, I know), but I don’t spend the hours and hours online that I used to.
I guess part of this is due to the way I’m not really part of any communities online any more. I don’t go on any forums, I’m hardly on dA… and probably due to this, I’ve lost touch with most of my online friends. I feel a bit sad when I think of how I’ve lost touch with so many awesome people, but unlike people irl (heh), it’s hard to get back into a close friendship with someone you’ve barely spoken to for one or two years. Things change, and people do. Maybe I’ve just grown up and don’t want to spend my whole life online?
Funnily enough, when you google my name or username it’s still me you find then. I’m worryingly easy to internet stalk.
