Discussion: How is the internet making society better/worse?

[Roberto Dinero]

Awesome topic.

1. Patience has gone by the wayside. Instant gratification has spoiled society. The ability to appreciate the little things is diminishing.

2. Superficialism has become excepted and not nearly as taboo. This has hurt the ability to see beneath, the underneath. To really except someone for who they are, and not how many followers they have or how well IT photoshopped their pictures.

3. A lot of uglies have been uncovered with the prevalence and accessibility of technology. Sounds like a good thing right? Wrong. Attention-whores, those that troll make it difficult to decipher what is true outrage and what is just a message for a reaction, good or bad.

Everyone wants to be more shocking than the other. More daring. Everyone wants to get their user name on a TV show for a web redemption.

What is real, is becoming skewed ever so slightly where we're beginning to except it and adapt to it.

The fact that a lot of people are not the same on this very site than they are in real life is proof enough.

Things are becoming worse because we're not responsible for our actions. That internet bully won't get checked like he needs to. That catfish can continue to lead on that unsuspecting soul.

Things are ugly if you pay attention.

I think the word you're looking for there is accept!

But I agree with the point you made about internet bullies. Cyber bullies are the scum of the fukking earth if you ask me. They should be lynched. And you don't even need to be strong or intimidating these days to be a bully. Some fukking fat nerd could be bullying others on line and making them feel bad about themselves when he is probably way more of a fukking loser than they will ever be. They disgust me. Cowards, hiding behind keyboards. That's probably the worst thing the internet has brought to society.

 

[T.he I.nformant]

Hell of a lot of misinformation and propaganda

 

[Remote]

Probably no invention besides the printing press has been more important in the last 1,000 years than the internet.
The internet is great from the perspective that it allows information to be shared so rapidly. Great ideas (and perhaps more importantly, facts) travel faster and can reach a wider group of people than ever before.

But if people are complaining about the internet (and by extension social media) making people fame whores, well...I don't think that's the fault of the internet.
I think it's just that some people like attention and some people like to give certain people that attention. And maybe the internet makes it easier to do it....but people would still do it.

I don't think there's much of a difference in some guy sending a girl on Instagram flirty messages....and a guy 15 years ago driving slowly next to a girl on the sidewalk, spitting game for 3 blocks.
The behavior is the same, to me.