Longform.org’s new reading app wants to give you a sanctuary from your endless feed (and maybe change your browsing behaviors, too!).
Over the past year a peculiar trend piece seems to keep popping up. It's never exactly the same but it often takes the form of a personal essay and it's almost always a mix of intelligent observation with a healthy dash of melancholy. It's a nostalgic look at the good old days (it's usually about three years ago) and a reluctant admission that the neighborhood is changing. Often times it's about Twitter, but the truth seems to touch on something bigger: the short-burst internet is exhausting us, grinding us down. Most importantly, it's making us unhappy. And, more and more, it seems we're looking for refuge.
There's The Atlantic's Eulogy for Twitter from last April, which wasn't rooted in data but rather an ominous feeling that the "audience-obsessed, curious, newsy" Twitter crew (read journalists and pundits) had grown tired and quiet. "Twitter feels closed off, choked, in a way that makes us want to explore somewhere else for a while," the posts authors wrote. That's just the most notable example; there are plenty more, from journalists and celebrities alike.
Internet fatigue is nothing new (do a quick search and you'll see articles about overdosing on the 'net's myriad offerings from before you could buy an iPhone) but what's changed, it seems, is that many of the web's loudest (and often most interesting) voices are getting hoarse, with many opting for either a break or a new, more tenable strategy of conversation.
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