The Internet
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journalism. like the flash movie i posted here http://www.streethop.com/forum/thread164442.html points out, news is changing. soon journalism in the old fashion sense is going to die out. you wont need to get the weather or traffic report from a news station, you'll get it from a pod cast by a person who lives 2 blocks away from you.
one thing journalist hate about bloggers is they are taking over and people can point out the reporters biasness and bullshit, so i think that has changed journalism in a major way too.
one thing journalist hate about bloggers is they are taking over and people can point out the reporters biasness and bullshit, so i think that has changed journalism in a major way too.
LOL, same thing happend to me my freshmen year of high school. I figured whitehouse.com and didn't really think twice about it at the time. I got banned from the computer labs for the rest of the semester, my stupid ex-stripper of a teacher didn't believe me when I told her I had no clue it was a pornographic site.
The net has become a substitute for actually learning, people just pull things off websites and act like they have knowledge, when in reality they forget all the knowledge their copy and paste included after about 10 seconds. It has also been the death of books and actual literary.Now its all jst toking lik 'dat man. Squeezing the life blood out of peoples imagination children don't even know about poetry , there's just too much gratification (games, porn) and time wasting (games, porn, message forums with empty opinion and no sound knowledge etc.)
It's been brilliant in a lot of aspects too, but after billions of years of earth, millions of years of 'evolution', thousands of years of civilisation and the creation of technology and computers, modern man sits behind it and plays shit like solitaire - hahahhahahahahahah, it's the sign of the times
It's been brilliant in a lot of aspects too, but after billions of years of earth, millions of years of 'evolution', thousands of years of civilisation and the creation of technology and computers, modern man sits behind it and plays shit like solitaire - hahahhahahahahahah, it's the sign of the times
I think though it gives people access to knowledge they wouldnt have otherwise. Even before the internet, people were adverse to books, other literature and even just media in general. The internet is something of a substitute to sources but for a lot of people I think it's the only means that they would have to come into contact with certain issues and ideas. It's a far more accessible knowledge base, open to all.
In life in general outside the internet there are just as many distractions and vices as there are online. Why single the internet out as a source of time wasting gratification...? It's everywhere. Games and porn arent internet specific. People with empty, useless opinions exist in real life too. The internet doesnt represent any great change in who we are, the means may have change, but the characteristics of the society behind it are the same.
In life in general outside the internet there are just as many distractions and vices as there are online. Why single the internet out as a source of time wasting gratification...? It's everywhere. Games and porn arent internet specific. People with empty, useless opinions exist in real life too. The internet doesnt represent any great change in who we are, the means may have change, but the characteristics of the society behind it are the same.
The net has become a substitute for actually learning, people just pull things off websites and act like they have knowledge, when in reality they forget all the knowledge their copy and paste included after about 10 seconds. It has also been the death of books and actual literary.Now its all jst toking lik 'dat man. Squeezing the life blood out of peoples imagination children don't even know about poetry , there's just too much gratification (games, porn) and time wasting (games, porn, message forums with empty opinion and no sound knowledge etc.)
It's been brilliant in a lot of aspects too, but after billions of years of earth, millions of years of 'evolution', thousands of years of civilisation and the creation of technology and computers, modern man sits behind it and plays shit like solitaire - hahahhahahahahahah, it's the sign of the times
It's been brilliant in a lot of aspects too, but after billions of years of earth, millions of years of 'evolution', thousands of years of civilisation and the creation of technology and computers, modern man sits behind it and plays shit like solitaire - hahahhahahahahahah, it's the sign of the times
It is a far more more accesible knowledge base, there's no doubt. But that's not neccesarily a good thing. The ancient arabs had this idea that even if a fool is right, he still wrong. Because a fool would never have any real delibaration behind his conclusion. Most people who have access to net based knowledge are like a donkey carrying the greatest books of knowlege ever written, on its back. It's just headlines and rhetoric that they want to believe. Maybe I haven't found a balance in my words here but i'm saying that this source of information is not credible and to think otherwise is detrimental not beneficial.
its made it more accesible.
its made it more accesible.
the changes will be a lot more evident in the future when our generation grow up.
i would go as far as to say that the internet have and will contribute to breaking down old principles and morals. "the youth of today" is getting crazier by the year. let's say you're a stoner and you think weed should be legalized. it's silly that it's not legal, "god put the plant on earth for us to use it" and "i can do whatever i want with my spare time, why would anyone else care, it's my problem not theirs," but we all know that if weed was legalized and everybody started smoking weed, everybody would be fucking lazy. i, for one, think zero tolerance rules are stupid because more often than not i disagree with them. but deep down, of course i realize that without no tolerance rules, principles and morals, we would be savages. what's my point?
music/movie downloading. kids that grow up with a fast internet connection will download music and movies, not buy them, and sub-sequently they will think that this is how it works. why buy stuff you can download for free? suddenly, theft is no longer frowned upon because you're not physically stealing from the offended. another example of how the internet is an obstacle on the path to righteousness is the bashing and calling of names that has become a trend among kids. when i was younger, if i went up to another kid and told him he's a "FAWKIN N00BLAR" i'd likely get socked. so if kids get away with being asswipes, how will they ever learn how to not be just that?
basically, i'm high again and i don't want to write anymore now, but yeah, the changes in the world that have been brough on by the internet will be even more prominent when the mature generation of today turn into geezers and our generation replace them.
ps: yes, the internet is not the only reason why kids today are misguided as to what's right and wrong, you got that right. pat yourself on the shoulder, and feel free not to point that out.
ps 2: my post doesn't apply to the exceptions. if you feel that you are one, don't criticise my post for being trivializing. if you're not an exception you're a hypocrite so stfu.
i would go as far as to say that the internet have and will contribute to breaking down old principles and morals. "the youth of today" is getting crazier by the year. let's say you're a stoner and you think weed should be legalized. it's silly that it's not legal, "god put the plant on earth for us to use it" and "i can do whatever i want with my spare time, why would anyone else care, it's my problem not theirs," but we all know that if weed was legalized and everybody started smoking weed, everybody would be fucking lazy. i, for one, think zero tolerance rules are stupid because more often than not i disagree with them. but deep down, of course i realize that without no tolerance rules, principles and morals, we would be savages. what's my point?
music/movie downloading. kids that grow up with a fast internet connection will download music and movies, not buy them, and sub-sequently they will think that this is how it works. why buy stuff you can download for free? suddenly, theft is no longer frowned upon because you're not physically stealing from the offended. another example of how the internet is an obstacle on the path to righteousness is the bashing and calling of names that has become a trend among kids. when i was younger, if i went up to another kid and told him he's a "FAWKIN N00BLAR" i'd likely get socked. so if kids get away with being asswipes, how will they ever learn how to not be just that?
basically, i'm high again and i don't want to write anymore now, but yeah, the changes in the world that have been brough on by the internet will be even more prominent when the mature generation of today turn into geezers and our generation replace them.
ps: yes, the internet is not the only reason why kids today are misguided as to what's right and wrong, you got that right. pat yourself on the shoulder, and feel free not to point that out.
ps 2: my post doesn't apply to the exceptions. if you feel that you are one, don't criticise my post for being trivializing. if you're not an exception you're a hypocrite so stfu.
Untrue. If the kids of today grow up to be savages why haven't they done so already? They gonna wait till they're 18? 21? 26? 67 perhaps? Wait until their parents die so their non-morals and values can take over the world?
If you yourself admit your post was a generalization and somewhat of an exxageration, what's the point of posting?
There's none.
You're high and bored. Feck off. 50/50. Depends on what info you're looking for. And even after that there's plenty more to do on the web. It's not only a matter of information, but one of communication and entertainment.
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