The internet isn't mine anymore.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/leigh-clark/facebook-statuses_b_3043482.html

I have quite a lot of issues with this.  

In the early 2000's people that posted on message boards were cool.  There weren't that many of us, really, compared to the millions of people that use Facebook now, contemporary, rubbish, messageboard replacement that it is.  We used to use words like 'nom' all the time, but hardly anyone else did so it wasn't an overused word.  Or rather it was, but only amongst a tiny, worldwide, online community, who thought it was funny and cute.   But then gradually as the internet became more mainstream and Facebook grew it became a little bit like having a tiny LSD gathering which is crashed by hundreds of drunk people who have accidentally come across your address and want to pee in your pot plants.  You know it's not quite the right vibe, (they should be pouring Ribena into the carpet to watch it sink in) but you just stand there with really big, round eyes surveying the damage and being completely incapable of fixing it.

So when people say that Facebook has gone down-hill I don't think they mean that.  What they mean is, everyone is on the internet these days and snobbery about the internet dictates only certain people should have access to it.  If you're not counter-culture then what are you doing here?  Being mainstream and normal is now the mainstream internet norm if we use Facebook as a yardstick for message boards as they used to be, and old school people like me are a bit sniffy about it.  They don't like places where they don't have to write their own A=HREF links, it's 'constricting'.  And all those funny pictures of kittens and TEH cutest baby animals?  Everyone's doing that now, it's not so sweet anymore, not so quirky.   

And when you know your next door neighbour Jan is there updating her status about The X-Factor, and her bunion and chatting with her long lost sister from Australia who she found via a genealogy site, what is there left for you to feel cool about?  The internet isn't yours anymore, 'Hunni'.  It's everyone's.  

Horrible spelling and grammar and all.