My current topic of thought is the group of people, of which I am a member, whom I term “net sluts”. Contrary to what you may be thinking this involves no hardcore anal action, it is a psychological behaviour.

Our parents had television, our older siblings are the “mtv generation”, and we have the Internet. Television has always been accused of causing children to develop a short attention span, mtv has been accused of being the reason so many kids have add (attention deficit disorder). The Internet is the next level, progress, evolution. Call it what you will.

I have a chronically short attention span, as my friend jest will testify to (as I will to his). I always have but recently it has got worse I no longer have any hobbies because I lose interest before I ever really get into anything. This website is a demonstration of this. When I first put it up I updated the content every day and I was constantly updating the layout as I learned new html. Now I rarely update the “diary” page and pretty much never update the “article” page. As for updating the layout I can barely remember how to change the font color let alone do anything impressive. This is not because I don’t want to or that I am too busy or that I have anything better to do. I just can’t be bothered. I can’t be bothered to do a lot of things. For this I blame the Internet.

The Internet is a sea of endless possibilities (does that make sense for some reason I think it does). I can get anything, see anything, BE anything and it’s all new. The problem is after a while it is no longer new and I lose interest. I must move on. We visit these sites post, read, download, whatever and keep coming back for a time and then we just forget. It’s not a conscious thing. We just forget. Nothing is permanent any longer, but was it ever or am I just getting older? I fear for my future, our future, if we continue like this. I do not see it getting better. I see it getting worse. How will I get a degree if I can’t concentrate on what I’m doing? How will I hold down a decent job? How can I have a family? Things must change. I don’t like change it’s a lot of effort, sooner or later we all have to make the effort.

I’m glad we had this little chat. I never really understand what I am talking about till I write it down. I suppose you don’t get an answer till you ask the question. I’m bored of this now; I’m off to do something else.