The Internet and Experience

I don't think the internet is very good for me. I've spent the last decade bumbling around on it and haven't really noticed anything good come of it yet. It's kind of like spending a weekend watching a whole TV season on DVD: by the time you're done, you don't remember much. You had no time to digest it. Plus you wasted the whole weekend on it.

I'm wondering if it isn't better to have information doled out more slowly, so your brain can absorb it, reflect on it, do something with it. Books seem that way. And going to see a performance or play too. I just seem to remember getting more out of my experiences before I could substitute the internet, or get email, or watch TV on demand. Things seemed richer in their scarcity.

Now that you can find out anything and contact anyone and see anything essentially immediately and without discretion or investment, it feels a little emptier.

Or maybe I just doing it wrong....