At the ripe old age of 24, I am no sage. However, in my very short lifetime I have observed a drastic change (if not deterioration) in the way people communicate with one another
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I have felt much the same way. I am somewhat insulated in the fact that my job has me on the internet 40+ hours a week, so when I leave here I want nothing to do with it. I enjoy social interaction... I find it a need in my life at times. I like to refer to it as reviving the lost are of conversation.
The internet strips the humanity out of any speach and reduces it to flat text. If it wasn't for the emodes (ie: :) ;) :( ) We would have to read all email's and posts with a monotone in order to avoid taking something wrong.
There is no easy solution as I see it. It is both a good thing and a bad thing that the internet appears to be here to stay. Good, because that means I will always have a job. Bad, because as we become more dependant on it for social interaction, the easier we become to control.
Re: Insightful.scott_st_jamesMarch 20 2002, 11:12:05 UTC
I've had these feelings and opinions for quite some time and only now am I really expressing them outside a alcoholsoaked conversation about our bleak future.
I'm so goth.
Yes, I agree that the Internet does have it's weak and strong points, and that it is here to stay. I can only hope, however, that the nexy generation learns from out mistakes.
I'm fairly certain that we will eventually outgrow this situation as broadband and other technologies improve and become cheaper. Already webcams and voice chats are becoming more and more prevelant.
Maybe eventually there will be a LJ where people upload their video diaries and such.
That doesnt do anything for those of us who have been effected by what you speak of... lack of social skills caused because of the internet.
The flip side to all this is those who had no social skills in real life but developed them online because they were given a psudo-anonymous platform to be able to speak without worrying about "messing up" or dealing with reprocussions. Would you not agree that for some people chatting online and such helps imrpove their social skills in the real world? Does one offset the other or not?
While it may give those naturally shy folks the oppotunity to interact when they otherwise may not, my worry is that they may be given the same false since of security the rest are. In other words, things are not the same when you may have to take a punch in the face for your actions or words.
I'm kinda from the school of thought that teaches you the hard way. I feel like it takes sound thrashing (figuratively of otheriwse) to truly learn the ropes.
Hey Scott, I stumbled on here and read your post. I'd respond in some insightful and educated way(I minored in Sociology for a while)...but I don't wanna, I write mini and full essays for about 40 hours a week going to school full time and just like Longway gets sick of the internet.....well lets just say I watch more Beavis and Buttheads reruns lately.
But oh yeah, the reason for the comment, I like that icon of yours man, it's nice, makes ya look all broody and stuff.
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I have felt much the same way. I am somewhat insulated in the fact that my job has me on the internet 40+ hours a week, so when I leave here I want nothing to do with it. I enjoy social interaction... I find it a need in my life at times. I like to refer to it as reviving the lost are of conversation.
The internet strips the humanity out of any speach and reduces it to flat text. If it wasn't for the emodes (ie: :) ;) :( ) We would have to read all email's and posts with a monotone in order to avoid taking something wrong.
There is no easy solution as I see it. It is both a good thing and a bad thing that the internet appears to be here to stay. Good, because that means I will always have a job. Bad, because as we become more dependant on it for social interaction, the easier we become to control.
-Longway
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I'm so goth.
Yes, I agree that the Internet does have it's weak and strong points, and that it is here to stay. I can only hope, however, that the nexy generation learns from out mistakes.
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Maybe eventually there will be a LJ where people upload their video diaries and such.
That doesnt do anything for those of us who have been effected by what you speak of... lack of social skills caused because of the internet.
The flip side to all this is those who had no social skills in real life but developed them online because they were given a psudo-anonymous platform to be able to speak without worrying about "messing up" or dealing with reprocussions. Would you not agree that for some people chatting online and such helps imrpove their social skills in the real world? Does one offset the other or not?
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I'm kinda from the school of thought that teaches you the hard way. I feel like it takes sound thrashing (figuratively of otheriwse) to truly learn the ropes.
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But oh yeah, the reason for the comment, I like that icon of yours man, it's nice, makes ya look all broody and stuff.
Later
Cuddles
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