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luvanddaisies

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link to article.

I was reading the above article earlier today, and was wondering whether my post in All Saints yesterday about the trouble with International Women's day (or at least the mood that prompted it) was partly catalysed by the sort of thing that part of this article is talking about. Do we assume we're more useless because we get to see so much of the shiny polished versions of other people's lives that they post online?

Maybe feeling more distant, but arguably more serious are the points it raises about jobs and income equality and about our data.

(Also, is it just me, but are there only three reasons given there for why the Internet is the worst thing every to happen to humanity?)

Ok, it's not the worlds most in-depth article, but it does make me question how we can even out the problems and balance them with positives. Will it regulate itself as time progresses? I'm personally very pleased that my teenage and student days all fell before everything was dumped onto the Internet in pictures and videos with a tag on it, preserving for posterity your youthful fuckwittery, or before my teenage oh-so-profound thoughts were able to be shared with the world via a blog.

I love t'interweb thing. I do know that I waste a lot of time there, and I do feel bad for how much I rely on Amazon for shopping, given its immoral approach to employee welfare and to taxes, but I'm aware that it has created some problems with its existence, and that it highlights others.
What do you think, and how can we make it better?

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leo
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They said that about printing.

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chris stiles
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Plato said similar about writing.
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mdijon
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The chimps thought the same about talking. And started throwing rocks around to warn potential talkers off.

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LeRoc

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I suppose there are some people who look at an exemplary person (say, Nelson Mandela) and say "I want to be a bit like him", while others say "I can never be like him". I guess it's a personality thing.

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Boogie

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quote:
Originally posted by luvanddaisies:
I'm personally very pleased that my teenage and student days all fell before everything was dumped onto the Internet in pictures and videos with a tag on it, preserving for posterity your youthful fuckwittery

Ahhh - but teenage fuckwittery can still come back to haunt! I went to Trent Part College of Education (Now Middlesex University) and a new FB page has sprung up. Guess what is going up - lots of (old, scanned, fading) photos of teenagers and young adults up to all sorts of silly fuckwittery!


[Roll Eyes]

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chris stiles
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Most technologies try to overcome or lessen some limitation of humanity, in doing so they introduce or magnify other flaws. The key is to be aware of the trade-offs
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rolyn
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When bicycle ownership became popular it was thought by some that the freedom they allowed would cause social and moral breakdown.

The Internet has opened many doors, when you pass through a door it pays to watch your back. Like fire or water, in the right place and right proportions -- good, in the wrong place and proportions-- bad.

[ 09. March 2016, 21:03: Message edited by: rolyn ]

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molopata

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It's bad, very bad. I should be in bed, but no, here I am, plying the internet on the Ship of Fools.

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I had a really really really good time when I was a young adult. My only regret is that I still can't drink bourbon. I took an extra year or two to finish University, but I reckon I was just stretching out the good times.

I don't think I would particularly care if a photo of me giving a massage to a competitor in a bong-off, or falling off the stage was put on the internet. I wouldn't even care if someone published a photo of me in the Young Liberals' tent at o-week. If someone did, that would probably give me an in to waffle on about all the current politicians I used to know.

This never happened OK, but even if someone had a photo somewhere of me pashing conservative wanker Andrew Bolt at a party, with us both in cords, desert boots, t-shirts and v-necked jumper-vests with a red and blue pen tucked in around the v, I wouldn't be worried. I'd just claim it was photo-shopped, before skipping off to an agent to see how much money I could get for the story, "Andrew and Simon: Before they were famous".

Sorry, having too much fun...

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I know a 'fundie' who reckons the internet to ultimately become the 666 implant in our foreheads, without which we will be unable 'live' as we might choose.

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Uncle Pete

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I spend way too much time on the Internet. Not surfing, not looking at porn or searching for memes, or otherwise clogging up my History files.

To me, from the beginning, first with email, then IM, then Facebook, and, increasingly, Skype it is a communication tool. A boon to someone who is profoundly hard-of-hearing. Those of you who have met me, and who now I count as friends, know how difficult it is to talk to me.

The internet is a Godsend. The only loser is the Post Office.

Now I must shut down and go read.

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