It was a social media about real life. We don’t have anything like that.

Closest thing is maybe Yelp but it’s totally separated from being social. They have made it into a kind of Yellow Pages with comments.

But MySpace did ticket sales and music streaming and people were designing their profiles in wildly creative ways, there were games, news, gossip, and somehow it was all seamless with the real world.

I guess Big Media took over because, now it’s all individualized social media, a manufactured feed of random drama. Like the WWE shoved its way into websites and started setting up Trump and Joe Rogan, and COVID-19, Netanyahu, and “Black Lives Matter”, and all this heightened sensation totally unrelated to my actual real life. I’m not even saying it’s all fake or bad or anything - just that it’s now mostly information detached from my daily life.

I digress, offline is a shared experience, yes. But online could be too. It was.