Attention Age?

I read a blog article a while back that was talking about the 'information age' and how we are no longer that, but we are now the 'attention age'.

The attention age was explained as where we try to bring attention to ourselves. I agree with that statement. I especially see that on Twitter where it seems everyone is trying to drive traffic to their blog. I've even been (and am) a part of that. It then said that we are no longer the information age. Now wait a minute, no longer using the Internet for information? Ya right! That's one thing I love about the Internet is all the information there is out there. I love Twitter and rss because I can easily get information in an orderly fashion that deals only with topics I want to hear about.

But is that the case with everyone? I started to pay attention on Facebook and I came to this conslusion. We are the attention age. All these kids (even though they may be just as old, or just a little older then me) are only posting things that try to grab attention. Even adults were doing the same thing. My blog posts got a very low click rate, usually 10 or 11. Three of thise are from my family. I have over 400 friends, so that means 1 out of 40 people actually will take time to read something.

There are a couple of people, that are still in the information age. I would also consider myself to be one of those. Those people that I consider to still be part of the information age all seem to have one thing in common. They are all intelegent and seem to have a desire to learn. It seems that teens these days don't really have a desire to learn. School seems boring and useless to them. I believe information is power and we are looking at a future generation of bums. Now I may sound aragant right now, but I'm not trying to be.

Facebook has started to irritate me. Everyone is seeming to post stuff and not really interacting with other people. I mean, it's called social networking, but it seems people aren't bring social. That's why I like Twitter, it seems to be more social and the information age is still string over there.

That's another one of my rants. But I really want people to come back to the information age and become more social.

-Matthew Loberg