Why is the world so infatuated with posting status updates and tweets about their everyday lives to document those bits of information and show to the world? "Going out to lunch with my good friend." "Toilet is clogged again! Drat!" "Had a strange experience this morning with a taco." Honestly, who gives a shit? Let's be realistic here. Few to no people on your friends list actually care about your status updates, and few to no people that follow you actually care about your tweets. I certainly don't care about the vast majority of everyone elses' updates. So why do we continue to flood the internet with infinite thoughts?

I'll be the first to admit that I'm all caught up in this world of sharing stupid information. I tweet like a nut, I post statuses pretty frequently, I check-in using Gowalla, I snap random photos using Instagram, and I even share what I'm watching on television using Miso. Speaking of all these services, they have made status updates and tweets suck even more recently. Two years ago, people posted the majority of status updates to tell where they were or what they were doing. Now, we have Foursquare and Gowalla to automatically share where we are, Miso, Tunerfish, and many others to share what we are doing, and Instagram and Dailybooth to share the memories. Where do status updates and tweets fit into all this anymore? Since we have all these services to share most of our actions for us, status updates and tweets have become a vast land of steaming crap.

I think for some reason we feel the need to let people know these things. For one, I think it's because we all crave attention. We thrive off of attention. Even those who prefer to be shy and quiet in their daily lives still manage to post a status update or two each day. Another reason is a sense of freedom. On a computer or a mobile device, when we type up our random thoughts and broadcast them, it's done almost without thinking. We are shielded by the screens of our devices. In the real world, a status would be updated by standing on top of a desk in a large public gathering and shouting to everyone there what you are currently thinking about. People would think you are nuts in that public gathering, but insanity isn't even thought about with a status update. It's really easy to write a hateful note to someone, but a lot harder to say it to their face.

Now let's review what we have covered. We know that everything we could possibly do on this planet can easily be shared onto the internet to everyone. We know that we are reaching the point of that actually being the norm in social media. We know why we effortlessly post random thoughts to the internet. Now how do we stop this madness? I really think the only way to stop all this buzz is for friendships to become more sincere again. Ten of your closest friends probably do care about the little things you do in your life as opposed to 500 people that you barely know. The great thing about Twitter, though, is that people can choose whether or not they care. If they do, they will follow you and if they don't, they won't. On Facebook, it feels more forced because when you delete somebody, it's a mutual deletion.

The problem is already being noticed. Path, for example, is an iPhone app that launched as a way to keep track of all of your closest friends and the tiny bits of information they choose to share about what they are doing. It's almost like a club. It's gotten pretty successful recently. It will never be Facebook or Twitter, but it's clear that there are people who want to get away from all the noise.

In the end, there will always be people that will continue to post random crap on the internet. If you really think hard about it, you'll find that it really is a dumb habit we've all gotten ourselves into. As long as we all care about broadcasting what we do -- and let's face it, we do -- the rest of the noise becomes tolerable. Rather pointless, but tolerable.