Is This Possibly Too Much?

My Web Media class is steaming along now, (two weeks infact), and I have already learnt of tools and pages that I would never have dreamed existed a few years ago. As I alluded to in my last blog, I have never nor do I expect to, ever fully comprehend the immense power and capability the Internet possesses. However, it brings to my mind the question of whether this could all be too much?

This week's class taught my classmates and I of a new tool called bloglines. It basically lets you know when a new blogs have been posted by people and sites that you are interested in. It saves you the hassle of visiting the site and checking whether or not this has happened. It's great if you have this great desire to read a million blogs I guess, but personally I am not fond of it.

Firstly, I find it very difficult to connect with it. It appears so messy and unorganised and it takes me a while to find what I want to do because there is so much links and other pages to click on, that sometimes it becomes a bit overwhelming when all I want to do is look at one of my classmates' blog page. Once one learns where to look however, it does become much easier, but then I start to wonder what the point of the rest of the stuff is for.

Secondly, one of the things that has always intrigued me about the Internet is that you can get completely lost going from one page to the next; even though, granted, this is how you are most likely to get spam and come across a site that was maybe not what it said it would be. Even still, bloglines takes this away in a sense. True it saves time, but I don't mind snooping through webpages till I find what I am looking for. It's great sport for me.

And I don't have this huge desire to read an obscene amount of blogs. Sure this is part of the course this semester but I don't think I can honestly say that I have the time to read any randoms person's blogs. And after this course, who knows what will become of this blog.

Don't get me wrong, I think that bloglines, coComment etc. are all wonderful little tools that can in some cases be very helpful, I just don't believe that they are for me, nor any other average Internet user.