Okay, so this is a pretty weak-arsed nomination about something rather superfluous in the great scheme of things.
As much as I appreciate the internet, and have done so since the late 80s when it belonged to the sad nerdy, geeky, D&D types who spent all their time locked away in their bedrooms writing code, playing computer games and downloading hot p0rn at 5Kb/s over a phone line modem all night long – but that’s another story.
The internet is a wonderful tool – quite possibly one of the Wonders of the Modern World in fact. Everything that you ever wanted to know is quite literally at your fingertips via a good search engine (privacy issues aside)
Because of things like YouTube and Google Search, I can now repair/build/learn/absorb/discuss a whole host of things that were well out of my reach 20 or 30 years ago. Today, for example, I learnt how to replace a toilet flush system thanks to YouTube, saving me a few quid on calling a plumber out.
However, the downside to all of this free access to everything, is that there really is far too much information to fully comprehend.
Returning to my example of the flush system – I did a search and it brought back pages and pages of videos and articles on the subject, which meant going through a handful (sorted by viewings or likes), to find one suitable for my needs.
This took about 25-30 minutes before I found the one that ticked my particular box. (what kind of cunt showing you how to replace a flush system decides to have loud rap music and pointless editing messing up the entire experience ffs!)
Other examples of spending too much time sifting through the great swathes of information include fixing Windows 10 problems; reading news articles, carrying out online shopping, checking train timetables, wondering what time of wood seal to use for my patio table and chairs; reading blogs ….and on and on and on….
And the bigger problem is that when you start reading up on something – for example reading a blog article about the pleasures of motorcycle journeys, is that it will carry a link to another article which takes your interest. So you follow that, and then there’s another one. And before you know it you have 4 or 5 tabs open full of information relating to bikes, but you rarely complete any of them because there’s too many other things on the go, and time is marching on!
It’s like starting a DIY project – all full of enthusiasm and vigour at the outset; but then you quickly begin to put things off “until the next day”, and all of a sudden it’s completely abandoned!
So too with information – there’s simply too much of it, and it takes up far too much of my spare time. In fact if I did a Google on this very subject it will probably contain pages and pages of stuff explaining why I am spending too much time sifting through information, even though it will mean spending too much time sifting through information to understand how to reduce my time sifting through information….
Fucking hell, even this nom is a waste of time reading through all this stuff about information….. stop the world, I wanna get off! (ps. does anyone know how?)
Sometimes its best to be a thick cunt and live in blind ignorance.
Nominated by: Technocunt
