Disconnection

Leaving the Internet might be a nice idea, but I think it would have been interesting if he had actually tried it without announcing it. If people wondered where he went, he could then explain what he had done. If nobody noticed, then that would have been something he can note. I think quite a lot of people have vanished from the internet without having the platform for it, so his only claim to being unique is that he happens to be a technology writer on a news blog with high velocity of influential people, and he should have said so.

As such, one can argue that this is the sickness of the Internet, it provides no metacognitive ability other than which can be anticipated by everyone else in forms of memes and private jokes.