Really? Are you Serious? or Web 2.doh!

Wait, do you mean that people blog to make money? Really, I find it absurd. Don't get me wrong, I'm not going to hunt you down and stop you from trying to do it, but it seems to be about as credible as selling pet rocks: You are a sheister for selling it, or a fool for buying it.
I have a blog (duh) to write stuff down. I have a Flickr account to put up pictures of my life for my friends and family to visit. I Twitter and have even posted a small handful of Utterz. I am not about to go and call myself an entrepreneur or a new media frontier adventurer. I am a geek who like to mess with technology. If that technology is useful, fine, if not, I dump it. There is no monetary value to any of it. I'm not making business connections of forming useful alliances. I'm having fun and the current bubble of techno-tards has completely gone off the deep end in thinking that any of this will have a measurable and positive effect on the real world.
When the Web 2.0 bubble pops, all the self aggrandizing, self referential pomp and ceremony will be seen for what it is: pointless. It's the equivalent of busywork, except your giving it to yourself. Take a step back and look at this whole social media collection of new media entrepreneurs. How is their time spent? It seems to be mostly a big circle of people linking to each other, getting together to discuss new ways of linking to each other and trying out new websites that, wait for it, give them new ways of pimping each other. I'm sure that if I was in the thick of things I could be persuaded that all this activity really means anything, but the signal to noise ratio seems really out of whack.
How many identical articles about Twitter or some new video sharing service do we need? What's the point? Is it any wonder that people look at you funny when you talk about them? Remember how the dorky kids (and I was on of them) got made fun of for making up their own secret alphabet in school? What was the point? Did it make you more accepted or productive? Did it solve an problem? No! In fact that's the point. Most of what I see the web turning into is solutions for imaginary problems.
I don't tend to take anyone seriously to begin with. How am I supposed to act when I see otherwise rational and talented adults waste time and money promoting their hobbies as a legitimate business en devours.
Please, just call it what it is. Just tell the world that you are okay with yourself for liking to post stories on your blog. Just accept that you wasted lots of real money in Second Life and you are seeing no return on that investment (big shock). Stop buying web cams and copies of Photoshop Elements in a vain attempt to become a creative A-lister. It's a bunch of crap! Just have fun and call it that, but stop making everyone else look crazy just because you can't deal with reality.
The web is a great research tool, but most of it us a big waste of time and shame on the lot of you for trying to pretend that a fancier blog layout is more important than a well manicured schedule full of things to do... in the real world.