>>5
Its not quite the eternal summer. We were all newcomers at some point but, it's perfectly possible to be a newcomer without being annoying or pushy. I'll agree that there was no division though, but more of a flattening of users. Less websites overall and more ease-of-use stuff that lets you feel like you're browsing without actually browsing.

I can still enjoy posting to boards here and there and lurking the larger ones like 4chan/8ch but nothing feels the same. I am often guilted into deleting more words than i post as if i'm talking face-to-face. Having such a broad scope of the internet, social experiments are even more obvious. I force myself to look away most of the time, like i've seen some obscene thing that shouldn't be seen.

The pandora's box has been opened, and it can't be closed again. The best you can hope for is for a new tech to catch the public and commercial eyes, and the best you can do is to eject back to reality or to keep hopping around the sparse expanse of social media (eugh, that word). It's not a disasterous situation but it's pretty damn uncomfortable.