So, I’ve been through a few of these tectonic plate shifts in my life on the internet, and I know that there will be others older than me with even more experience or alternate experiences along similar themes.

I am not even kind of an early adopter online. I tend to find something I’m comfortable with and stick with it for quite some time, and it takes a number of “throwing my hands up in disgust” events to get me to consider a change. From my own timeline of use, it was AOL as the “front page of the internet”, followed by 4chan for a very short while, followed by Digg, followed by reddit, and now it’s starting to feel like we’re on the brink of another plate shift. Is this something on that sort of scale? No idea. It would take someone with a far keener eye for these things to tell you for sure, but I can confidently say that if someone like me is here, then I’m certainly not the only one, and that means something’s up.

Make of all of that what you will, but it’s going to be increasingly interesting to see where this goes in both the short and the long term.