Information on the Internet

Once upon a time there was this small tidbit of information.  A datum.  Pronounced useful and thrown onto the disarray that is known as the world wide web.  The datum, lonely, remained stationary - lonely - disconnected.

The datum wanted friends, so it tweeted to everyone.  Messages of it's loneliness.  It got a few followers.  They were bots.

The datum remained in obscurity.  It knew it's self worth, but it felt like the web didn't want to mesh to it.  That the spiders never got to it as no-one extended a filament for the spider to traverse.

The datum, lonely, gained a group on Face Book.  No-one joined it's group - who would want to be fans of this small morsel of useful information?  It was as though the datum was banned from the web.  But how could useful information be banned thought the datum.

Until it linked to related datum.  Extending itself for a solitary, useful, datum to an interconnected set of data whose combination is infinitely more useful as the datum now relates itself historically to previously related datum, and to similar datum discussing the same subject at the same time but from different point of views.

The datum, now part of the data that makes up the web, became accepted and linked to.  No longer solitary.

As information - out of context - without any means to learn of the context, is useless to the user, even if it applies to the current situation.