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Carolus Rex
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Jan 1970
time: 06:29
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- You interact with people from all over the world in a way not possible before?
- You get new friends, pick up new ideas and broaden your horizons?
- Things you pick up on the Internet make you question yourself and your beliefs, and make you enter new areas of interest you would never have come across otherwise?
- You ignore your "real" life and friends, or maybe even worse, your sweetheart?
- You read less, take less interest in current events and, in a sense, become more ignorant?
- You say no to social events so that you can stay hours and hours in front of a monitor chatting or posting to strangers?
The Internet - Isolating or Connecting People?
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Eli
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Israel
Jul 2000
time: 07:29
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quote:
Originally posted by Carolus Rex
- You read less, take less interest in current events and, in a sense, become more ignorant? |
Really? I dont see how that follows from the use of the internet.
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- You say no to social events so that you can stay hours and hours in front of a monitor chatting or posting to strangers?
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Well, isnt that the same social event but in a different form?
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Space05us
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I think it isolates but connects people at the same time. I would say that the world immeadietly around me would be far better if the internet didnt exist, however I would know far less if.
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Immortal Wombat
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in perpetuity
Dec 2000
time: 05:29
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quote:
- You interact with people from all over the world in a way not possible before?
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Yesquote:
- You get new friends, pick up new ideas and broaden your horizons? |
Yesquote:
- Things you pick up on the Internet make you question yourself and your beliefs, and make you enter new areas of interest you would never have come across otherwise? |
Yesquote:
- You ignore your "real" life and friends, or maybe even worse, your sweetheart? |
No. I prioritisequote:
- You read less, take less interest in current events and, in a sense, become more ignorant? |
Reverse in fact. Easier access to news services and information online. Reading is fro away-from-PC time.quote:
- You say no to social events so that you can stay hours and hours in front of a monitor chatting or posting to strangers? |
Never done this. Yet.
Connecting, for the most part. I think the decline into emotional isolation is (or will be) a real issue though, since online-contact is fleeting and largely meaningless. People will get more and more dependant on online unfulfilling online contact, and need more and more to get the satisfaction of "real life", and it could become a problem for vulnerable individuals. But this will hopefully stay a very small minority.
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st_swithin
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Nov 2002
time: 05:29
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Last edited by st_swithin on 21-07-2003 at 12:12
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st_swithin
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10069
Nov 2002
time: 05:29
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I like people better online than off - no-one's trying to take snaps of me when I'm online (well, besides Big Brother, that is).
Can't people just go outside without being looked at? I mean, I was wearing clothes and everything.
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mrmitchell
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It's a tool. You can't blame a crowbar for the beating death of a person, or a hammer for breaking your thumb.
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Albert Speer
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Puerile Polemic
Mar 1999
time: 00:29
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well for me, the internet has opened up completely new worlds. sometimes on apolyton, i feel like a student always asking questions and not understanding things... i would not have learned a lot of things if my only contact with the world was in the real world which to me is just the city.
thanks
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st_swithin
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10069
Nov 2002
time: 05:29
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Then EAT THE CHILDREN!!
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20-07-2003 17:31
Some people are way too serious 
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