Did the internet age have a net positive or negative impact on how we spread information and interpret the world around us?

[Sweatnuts]

For as much as it helped improve all manner of connection and communication, the world wide web arguably took it's fair share away as well. For every inspiring article, there is a hopeless porn addiction around the corner. In some ways, the instantaneous gratification of whatever we want through a screen has completely skewed our attitudes towards the real world. The question is, does the good outweigh the bad?

 

[BingBong]

Tech is bad. Ted was right. RIP my boy.

 

[snailslime]

The internet was way more fun during the years of 2007-2015

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

A brand new user should probably not be making new threads in "deep thoughts", especially when it's you @Sweatnuts.

 

[YourMommasBackstory]

tho now we can laught at people with hopeless porn addiction.
Check out Animal control sub-forum, you'll get so much fun that you'll praise the god for creating the internet.

 

[Vampirella]

Remember when the internet had actual funny things on it that looked like they had work put into them, and not just chrigy green texts and barfing up Reddit memes?
I remember.

 

[Maskull]

Remember when the internet had actual funny things on it that looked like they had work put into them, and not just chrigy green texts and barfing up Reddit memes?
I remember.

Online culture and its products were never good.

 

[Orange Rhymer]

Notice how TempleOS has no network capability?

That is the answer to your poll.

RIP Terry Davis. The genius this planet didn't deserve.

 

[Judge Holden]

The internet is still overwhelmingly a net positive, people just dont generally realise how fucking insane a resource it truly is. So much vital information from cooking to repair to accounting tips to university level texts to artistic instruction is out there and easy to freely access and use in ones daily life, which is such a transformation of society given how previously people just had to call a professional/somehow find and purchase a book in meatspace to have a hope of solving any of this shit.

Basically its the greatest step forward for the spread of information since the days of the first movable type and printing press, and possibly since the invention and mass adoption of writing in general, since now everybody can theoretically possess and take advantage of 99% of all useful knowledge accrued by humanity in its entire history.

Such an unprecidented boon is easily worth whatever dumb autism is currently shitting up social media and clickbait rags

 

[ThePurpleProse]

There's no good or bad, it's all up to what you do with it.

A brand new user should probably not be making new threads in "deep thoughts", especially when it's you @Sweatnuts.

Now that's more appropriate.

 

[Alpacawitz]

The internet is still overwhelmingly a net positive, people just dont generally realise how fucking insane a resource it truly is. So much vital information from cooking to repair to accounting tips to university level texts to artistic instruction is out there and easy to freely access and use in ones daily life, which is such a transformation of society given how previously people just had to call a professional/somehow find and purchase a book in meatspace to have a hope of solving any of this shit.

Basically its the greatest step forward for the spread of information since the days of the first movable type and printing press, and possibly since the invention and mass adoption of writing in general, since now everybody can theoretically possess and take advantage of 99% of all useful knowledge accrued by humanity in its entire history.

Such an unprecidented boon is easily worth whatever dumb autism is currently shitting up social media and clickbait rags

In mere moments, you can go from talking to a random person on Omegle to masturbating on the terabytes of porn on the world wide web. The options for non-productivity have gone up substantially and I think they have overall lead to a decline in skills in younger people.

Giving the vast information of the internet to someone who does not know how to deal with it correctly can overall be detrimental and I think it'll eventually lead to an increase in the number of extremist individuals because of the ease of access to the communities that house these people.

On the bright side, the Kute Kitty Kat army will increase in numbers

Spoiler: Kutie

 

[Ashenthorn]

The options for non-productivity have gone up substantially and I think they have overall lead to a decline in skills in younger people.

Giving the vast information of the internet to someone who does not know how to deal with it correctly can overall be detrimental

Like everything else, it always comes down to proper parenting, doesn't it?

 

[Alpacawitz]

Like everything else, it always comes down to proper parenting, doesn't it?

But what if your parent was brought up by T.V.?