I too miss old-school blogging, and obviously still practice it.

Twitter and Facebook have their uses (though I will never use either), but they do make the conversation far dumber and duller.

Of course as an elitist I recognize that there are more dumb and dull people on the internet now as it has democratized, so the state of Twitter and Facebook are but a fait accompli of this fact.

For a while, 90% of the people on the internet were fairly well-educated (either self-educated or formal) and the level of discourse was much higher, though of course still at times beset with trolls and other annoyances.

In 2001 or thereabouts the internet was a much better place, with much less corporate intrusion, no Twitter storms of utter ignorance, and no links from Facebook where the average IQ is about 60.

I do miss those days, though I know we’ll never return to them.

That ship has sailed, and with it any hope of anything better than what we now have.