Lately, LinkedIn and Reddit have started to feel different to me. I keep seeing polished posts that say the right things but do not feel connected to a real person, and I am still unsure whether that is a real shift or my own overreaction.

I used ChatGPT to help write some content in the past. When I read it back, I could tell that it did not sound like anything I had actually experienced. The sentences were clean enough, but the experience behind them felt artificial. I am not against using AI as a tool. I am against publishing words that have no person left inside them.

That is the part I notice while scrolling. The posts are polished, agreeable, and strangely empty. Reading them feels like shouting into a void where nobody is really listening.

Social media, LinkedIn, and Reddit feel different now. I cannot tell whether there is more bot activity, more generated content, or whether I have become more sensitive to it. Either way, automated perfection is starting to replace the awkward signs that a person was actually there.

Chatbots are useful for proofreading, restructuring, and catching the sentence I somehow wrote twice. They should not become the source of the experience itself. I would rather read a long-ass article that is badly organised but clearly written by someone who was there than another perfect post assembled from general opinions.

I do not know whether this is the dead Internet Theory or only a change in my own attention. If you have noticed the same thing, email me at contact@jienweng.com. I am curious what I am missing.