I very much enjoyed reading this. I've been sitting with much of what you've written for a while. I remember being a child in the 90s and the 00s, when being online was less curated and didn't bleed (as much) into your "real life." But I still had a life outside of that. Now I find that so much of online has bled into the offline, and I see that so much with those who are chronically online. I have also been thinking about enshittification a lot and I talk a lot with my friends about how being online isn't really fun anymore. And you're so right about how all the apps are just imitating each other. I was initially excited about Notes, but then it's just turned into Twitter. Every app is just turning into another everything app, and we've learned nothing.
I very much enjoyed reading this. I've been sitting with much of what you've written for a while. I remember being a child in the 90s and the 00s, when being online was less curated and didn't bleed (as much) into your "real life." But I still had a life outside of that. Now I find that so much of online has bled into the offline, and I see that so much with those who are chronically online. I have also been thinking about enshittification a lot and I talk a lot with my friends about how being online isn't really fun anymore. And you're so right about how all the apps are just imitating each other. I was initially excited about Notes, but then it's just turned into Twitter. Every app is just turning into another everything app, and we've learned nothing.