The Internet of Cars: Automotive Social Media - Automobile
It used to be that if you as an obsessive car fan were unable to squeeze enough existential meaning out of the monthly car magazines you read, you were reduced to satisfying your insatiable car lust—a shame that should not have been named but... Perhaps when you weren’t boring friends, relations, and total strangers with your findings, you reread back numbers of Hemmings Motor News to see what tasty motoring morsels were out there in classified ad land. These were cars you might buy or more accurately dream about buying. And you can still talk to yourself about cars while talking to others who don’t care about cars … about cars. But to be fair these are essentially interior monologues, which is to say they are inferior monologues, isolating and lonely, unrequited expressions of fantasy that mostly percolate in your own head before limply fizzling, only to be recycled at a... If the online world hasn’t already become a central component of your car addiction, you’re clearly not trying hard enough. —truth is the thing Al Gore invented makes it easier to be a car bore today than it ever was. Source: www.automobilemag.com
