The first web boom was about money. Thousands of people made tons of money (on paper) making apps they thought the world would want forever.

Everything grew too big too fast and died a quick, painful death, taking all the money with it. Looking back, we’ll remember the time for huge offices, rich youngsters and more dumb millionaires than we’ll probably ever see again.

And it’s happening again. Sure, the money isn’t the same with social media, but the narcissism is. We have conferences that congratulate ourselves, we call each other rockstars* and we spend too much time talking to each other.

Christ people, you HAVEN’T DONE ANYTHING YET**. We’re more connected than ever before. The average person has more power than anything before. And all we’ve done is talk to each other.

So shut up. Stop patting yourselves on the back. Get to work. Make something happen. Stop putting on conferences that do nothing more than telling us you’re on Twitter, or use Facebook.

Tell us what’s next.

*For the love of god none of you people are fucking rock stars and you’re dipshits for saying that. Can you make millions of people give you money, put your poster on the wall or worship you? Nope, so STOP OVERUSING THAT TERM. Yes, Chris Brogan, even you.

Edit: Now Jay Baer too? Please STOP.

**As Jason states below, real revenue has been generated and things are happening, it just seems premature, to me, to congratulate ourselves just for stepping up to the plate and hitting a single.

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