I’m worried that we’re reaching a staturation point regarding the internet.

Working backwards, I was going to write a post about this post on Kotaku that appeared on Deadspin. I was amazed that the fact that someone had thought about doing something in the first half of 2008. The post contains incredibly dumb statements like this:

EA’s Joel Linzer said they made the decision to put Favre on the cover before he announced his retirement. When Favre announced his retirement, they considered replacing him with an active player, then bulled ahead and kept him on the cover. He later unretired.

See, they decided to do something, something related to what they were doing changed, but they decided not to change anything and then what had changed, changed back to the way it originally was. Its the kind of story that only a blogger could tell. Want to hear about the time I stole styrofoam cups?

Well, as I was reading this story about nothing I was using Twitter. I’ve been on Twitter for about 3 weeks now. I joined Twitter because my Graduate School professor asked the class to join. That’s got to be the least rock ‘n roll reason to join Twitter ever. Just last week we had a professional jouranlist come in and speak to my class about Twitter. That’s right, Twitter is now being taught in Graduate School.

I just downloaded TweetDeck and I feel like we’re moving too fast. Here’s something I’ve been using for a very short time and I’ve already upgraded to the most possible application of that something. While I was scrolling through my Followed Tweets, I saw Will Leitch Twittering about how his story about Twitter had hit the internet. That’s right, Leitch did a story for New York magazine about the blog-cultural ramifications of Twitter. By now, I’m sure everyone has already read it. By link on a blog or by Twitter itself.

To its loyal users, Twitter is an invaluable part of their daily lives, and they don’t want it futzed with. But so far there aren’t enough of them. Will Twitter lose something as it becomes a massive, universally accepted fact of life? Any politician can tell you that you shouldn’t alienate your base. How big is Twitter’s base? Enough to believe in? Enough to rest the hopes of a company and a whole industry on?

Twitter seems to be growing steadily. Hef and clown are old Twits. Nick P, Happy and fetch joined in the last week. Everyone else visits the site, if for no other reason than to read The Big Leed which alone threatens to crush the internet because its an other-platform sendoff of a blogger.

I eagerly await the ensuing Photoshop.

And what could be most meta of all is this post written by our internet friend Dave Lozo. His internet friend East Village Idiot quit Facebook because he was enraged by the 25 Random Things meme. I’ll let Lozo explain.

He became so enraged by these memes, that he quit Facebook today. Then he blogged about it, causing me to wonder if blogging about quitting Facebook was worse than filling out a meme on Facebook.

Lozo then not only anticipates the possibility of someone blogging about his blog about the blog – he encourages it.

Here is what we’re going to do. We, the Internet, are going to come up with 25 posts about a guy quitting Facebook over the 25 random things meme.

And where did I find the link to this post? Twitter.

We’ve got to be coming to the end of thinking of anything creative on the internet. Last April I live-blogged an ESPN live-blog of The Masters. Jason Sobel linked to my live-blog of his live-blog. By the time I was doing the same with the US Open, my live blog live blog was live blogged by Rockabye Reggie Nelson of The Arena. That too was linked by Sobel. The turnaround from birth to jumping the meme continues to quiken.

Just last Monday we had David After Dentist and Christian Bale Yelling debut. By Thursday we were sick of all the mashups. By Friday morning I heard Christian Bale Yelling at David on the radio. By Friday night, The Soup’s Bale reference just made me groan.

So is there a point? Aren’t we just waiting here for the “internet to collapse into itself” after one of our intentionally ironic memes undoes the fabric of the interwebs? Should I even bother with a conclusion because it will just be turned into a skit for The College Humor Show on MTV – a television station which stopped playing music so that it could eventually film a reality show about two bi-sexual sisters no one has ever heard of who both fall in love with the same boat captain?  A program that was a spinoff A Shot at Love which starred a woman who became famous by friending people on MySpace.

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