Delicious?

Well, delicious. I've looked at it before, but it doesn't do much for me. Having said that, for sheer entertainment it's as fun as Stumble Upon, Yoono, or other such sites, including Flickr, YouTube, and others--where you can just stagger around and find lots of interesting and entertaining things without hardly trying. Yet it has no practical use for me. I'm not really interested for the most part in what other people find interesting. I have enough to interest me just straight from my head. Also, I find that if you link into too many of the social networking sites you tend to confuse yourself, get into the battle of the toolbars (how do you manage Yoono, Stumble Upon, De.lici.ous, Snap, and all the other toolbars at the same time?). In the end, you have to choose a favorite tool and stick with it--maybe two tools if you want to get most of your entertainment on the web (doesn't everybody?). I wonder if, below the surface, there's really just a battle to get dollars through advertising revenue, get more hits from us peons, go public, sell out to Google or Microsoft, make mega millions. Is it really about us the users? This society and its power/money brokers have us running around chasing our tails, leaving us very little time to actually figure out who to vote for, what is true, and how we should be living our lives: YouTube, Instant Messaging, Google, Social Networking, hundreds of channels, mp3 and Ipods, the latest PlayStation, DDR, computer solitaire, web porn, satellite radio, working on our kids' stellar resumes starting when they're a week old so that they can get into Harvard, working twice as many hours to pay for our McMansion and spending twice as long commuting to and from it, etc. etc. What if we just shut all that off for a week and searched for some actual factual news about some real things? We'd be much better citizens, I'll tell you that. Climate change isn't a reality until we see it on the Weather Channel. End of rant.