Does internet help us?
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coyote
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i had a cell phone like this is 1994
didn't get online until 1996 - i was one of the late ones
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Beatrice
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But, but.... how did you google things? Where was your Wikipedia? Where did you go to see captioned pictures of cats and walruses? How did you live?
Agent_Violet
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i had a cell phone like this is 1994
didn't get online until 1996 - i was one of the late ones
Remember when cellphones had to be carried in a briefcase? Lol
And the ones that were the size of the old clunky cordless phones?
*sigh* the good ol days
coyote
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we had these...
i grew up with a set of the 1971 World Book encyclopedia
i literally read it cover to cover, several times
oh, and there was this place down the street called the "library"
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razzle dazzle rose
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The short answer: not helpful. I do not know what this concept of moderation means...at least not in practice. I have a lot of addictions, and the internet is one of them.
I got my first computer and internet access at the age of 18. A late bloomer for sure! I didn't have internet one summer, and it was the best summer of my life. I became a different person. Yes, I was actually happy. Is there a correlation? Who knows, but it is not enough to lure me into disconnecting. Nope. How could I live? I need information at my fingertips, pay bills online, read fashion blogs, and all my friends are online--and that is where the problem comes in.
I have connected with so many awesome people online. It always kills me how they are not closer to me so we can actually hang out in the real world. But would we? I wonder, I wonder. (Actually, I have meet people I met online in real life. I met my boyfriend on the internet. True story.)
And how can we resist?
There are more pros than cons, but for someone who is afraid to go outside, well, why go outside when I can just watch cat videos?
I got my first computer and internet access at the age of 18. A late bloomer for sure! I didn't have internet one summer, and it was the best summer of my life. I became a different person. Yes, I was actually happy. Is there a correlation? Who knows, but it is not enough to lure me into disconnecting. Nope. How could I live? I need information at my fingertips, pay bills online, read fashion blogs, and all my friends are online--and that is where the problem comes in.
I have connected with so many awesome people online. It always kills me how they are not closer to me so we can actually hang out in the real world. But would we? I wonder, I wonder. (Actually, I have meet people I met online in real life. I met my boyfriend on the internet. True story.)
And how can we resist?
There are more pros than cons, but for someone who is afraid to go outside, well, why go outside when I can just watch cat videos?
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Invisibleman
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we had these...
i grew up with a set of the 1971 World Book encyclopedia
i literally read it cover to cover, several times
oh, and there was this place down the street called the "library"
man those school projects mustve been a doozy
Moa
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Do you find your online friendships fulfilling? For me it's like eating a chocolate chip cookie when what I really want is a piece of chocolate cake. They're both sweet and yummy, but the cake has so much more chocolate and is just that much more satisfying.
coyote
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well i did find love
but notice my post said i met my second EX-wife
so i'm not so sure it was a good thing
Bo592
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Ya it not a good idea but still I won`t to know how it done.when people meet online is it done though chatroom? is there any good chatroom to visit the only ones I know of is facebook and Xat chatroom and they don`t seem to work. I wonder why people don`t like to meet in web cam chat ?
razzle dazzle rose
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Well, I was always more of a cookie person than a cake person but this isn't about desserts, is it?
Um, no, online friendships are fulfilling up to a point. At the end of the chat, I am still alone, with no on to go watch a movie with, so I always have to wait till they come out on DVD to watch alone in my room...I used to be able to make friends. But that seems like so long ago. And even then I had trouble opening up and fully being myself. You see, online, I can be the girl I want to be and I like that. By that I don't mean I make up this fabulous life for myself and lie. Oh, no, I just put it all out there. I am me. I always have such a hard time expressing myself verbally, mispronouncing all sorts of words embarrassing myself; I am better at writing. I also seem to find people I have things in common with online more easily than I can IRL. But maybe that is because I spend more time with my computer than actual people...
I make friends online because it is better to type to a computer screen than talk to a wall. The wall doesn't say anything. I am friends with two girls I met online. I have communicated with them for years, via text messages and FB and sometimes e-mail. They are awesome. Gems. Will we ever meet up in real life and make our friendships valid, I don't know. I sure hope so. I would like both of them at my wedding (if I ever get married that is). I just don't see how I can make friends in real life now. My situation at the moment doesn't really allow for that. But I am open to suggestions!
Hamelech
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Absolutely NOT. Internet has helped me a lot in many other aspects, because this tool is an endless source of entertainment and knowledge, but the price I had to pay for this has been practically losing my faith in humanity, not being empathic or sensitive anymore with the others. This is a place where all the defects, evilness and pettiness of our own human species are showed with no disguise or filter, which is something emotionally devastating in the long term, even if one tells himself "It doesn't affects me". Discovering the Internet has been like giving my soul to Lucifer in exchange for a sort of bitter resigned wisdom.
THeCARS1979
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It can be both, its better in moderation
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Beatrice
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Whoa, really? That bad? :/