The Future of Humankind's Marriage to the Internet

Burning Down · 05-04-2011, 09:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Il Duce

i feel really funky taking a holiday and not having a line

You should, and you could I guess. Just take a week to go somewhere and leave your cellphone, computer, and whatever at home.

Dotoar · 05-04-2011, 10:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Nosferatu Man

I agree with Ian E, my mother was in London the other week and I asked her about it and we got talking about some restaurant she went to in Notting Hill, she decided to go to this particular restaurant as when she was outside it she googled it on her iphone and having received a number of favourable reviews she went in.

And how is that bad? If anything, it saved her a potentially bad dinner.

TheBig3 · 05-04-2011, 10:29 AM

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Originally Posted by Dotoar

And how is that bad? If anything, it saved her a potentially bad dinner.

Yeah, right? Man, people getting a good hint on where to eat is going to kill the human race.

Paedantic Basterd · 05-04-2011, 10:32 AM

Insensitivity to violence and depravity is a huge concern of mine, as is the decrease in respect for others and inability to communicate with them.

Burning Down · 05-04-2011, 10:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Pedestrian

Insensitivity to violence and depravity is a huge concern of mine, as is the decrease in respect for others and inability to communicate with them.

How do you mean? That people are using cyberspace as a veil to say things to others that they probably wouldn't say in real life?

TheBig3 · 05-04-2011, 10:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Pedestrian

Insensitivity to violence and depravity is a huge concern of mine, as is the decrease in respect for others and inability to communicate with them.

Thats happening because of the internet?

Paedantic Basterd · 05-04-2011, 10:36 AM

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Originally Posted by TheBig3

Thats happening because of the internet?

I would say that the common access to videos and images such as 2girls1cup, and the fact that these images are increasingly treated as a joke, is a problem.

Mr November · 05-04-2011, 10:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Burning Down

How do you mean? That people are using cyberspace as a veil to say things to others that they probably wouldn't say in real life?

Well cyber bullying or whatever has become a more high profile issue. And while I probably don't take it as seriously as I should, I think it's something real, and probably different from conventional bullying in many ways.

And the other thing is that we have access to information about all of the violence, violations of human rights, people starving etc - which is more a product of the expansion of all kinds of information sources not just the internet - but it does desensitize us I think. It certainly has done to me.

Urban Hat€monger ? · 05-04-2011, 10:43 AM

Other than buying less music & less magazines I've not noticed any real difference in myself since I came online.

But then I just treat the internet like one more piece of home entertainment.
I'm not the slightest bit interested in 4G phones (Or phones of any kind for that matter), social networking, twitter or any of that kind of thing that means I get interrupted when I'm out doing something, or bore people about what I'm doing.

And someone answer me this, what the hell do you do exactly with an Ipad?

Mr November · 05-04-2011, 10:53 AM

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Originally Posted by Urban Hatemonger

And someone answer me this, what the hell do you do exactly with an Ipad?

You show it off to people and pretend it isn't pointless. Some of them will play along with you.

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Paedantic Basterd Music Addict Join Date: Sep 2010 Posts: 5,184	Insensitivity to violence and depravity is a huge concern of mine, as is the decrease in respect for others and inability to communicate with them.