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Does society depend too much on the Internet?

  • 06-09-2010 4:29pm
    #1
    PeterIanStaker
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    Following on from the web use thread and the "what happened to society" thread, do you think society, not necessarily just Irish society, but also other modern countries with a similar or higher level of technology, depends on the World Wide Web too much as a medium for information?


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  • #2
    Sheeps
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    Yes hence why it is important to protect the internet and keep net neutrality.


  • #3
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Some do, just look at South Korea users!

    Then again, some should spend more time on the net and get educated more!


  • #4
    RockinRolla
    Closed Accounts Posts: 575 ✭✭✭RockinRolla


    Sheeps wrote: »
    Yes hence why it is important to protect the internet and keep net neutrality.

    Wasn't Obama trying to censor the net?


  • #5
    PeterIanStaker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,072 ✭✭✭PeterIanStaker


    on the other hand, you have regimes like China who have an "internet police" tasked with monitoring citizen's web use, very Nineteen Eighty-Four.


  • #6
    FearDark
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,425 ✭✭✭FearDark


    Im just gonna google a reply to this thread, bare with me...


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  • #7
    Mark200
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    RockinRolla wrote: »
    Wasn't Obama trying to censor the net?

    No.


  • #8
    karlog
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,563 ✭✭✭karlog


    Whatever you do don't type "google" into google or you could break the internet.


  • #9
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    FearDark wrote: »
    Im just gonna google a reply to this thread, bare with me...

    I don't use the nudist internet, thank you very much. :mad:


  • #10
    Essien
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,985 ✭✭✭Essien


    We don't depend on it too much, its just so bloody useful that to not use it as much as we do would be a step backwards.


  • #11
    mikemac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,986 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    Sure look at some threads we have on boards

    "What time does the swimming pool open?"
    "Are the buses on the route hourly?"

    Get your golden pages which you received for free and you can get an answer to your question far, far faster then asking here.

    But people still do it :confused:
    Maybe they start threads just for the interaction

    It's using the internet for information when a 30 second phone call would get you the information you need

    Now if you want recommendations and advice then the internet is brilliant for this.
    But realy, checking internet forums is not how you get a speedy answer to a simple question


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  • #12
    Biggins
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    feelingstressed wrote: »
    ...It's using the internet for information when a 30 second phone call would get you the information you need
    The wife says I'm quicker than 30 seconds though. :o


  • #13
    phasers
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    I dunno, let me look it up


  • #14
    Davidius
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,893 ✭✭✭Davidius


    phasers wrote: »
    I dunno, let me look it up
    To think I was going to be all let me google that for you and all.


  • #15
    Logical Fallacy
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    Mark200 wrote: »
    No.

    Yes.


  • #16
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Mark200 wrote: »
    No.
    Logical Fallacy wrote: »
    Yes.
    Maybe?


  • #17
    Prof.Badass
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,931 ✭✭✭Prof.Badass


    No.

    The internet is having a massive positive impact in society. The speed at which ideas can spread is phenomenal and the potential for the rational exchange of ideas (rather than ego-driven debates) is waaay higher than irl.
    Maybe it's just as I'm growing older, but i just can't see how i would have been anywhere near as enlightened a person had the internet not existed.

    Even stuff like the potential for misinformation on wikipedia has an upside in that it gets people to question what they're reading rather than swallowing it whole.

    Society needs moar internet!!! For too many people internet=email+facebook and that's it :(.


  • #18
    Mark200
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    Logical Fallacy wrote: »
    Yes.

    Feel free to provide something to back up your lie.


  • #19
    Gone West
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,374 ✭✭✭Gone West


    What is this "society" you speak of?
    Is this one of those old fashioned things that exists outside of the internet?


  • #20
    ronkmonster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,181 ✭✭✭ronkmonster


    Fuzzy wrote: »
    What is this "society" you speak of?
    Is this one of those old fashioned things that exists outside of the internet?
    there's an outside?


  • #21
    RockinRolla
    Closed Accounts Posts: 575 ✭✭✭RockinRolla


    I depend too much on society.;):p:o:(:eek:confused::cool::pac:





































































    :pac:


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  • #22
    rockmongrel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 645 ✭✭✭rockmongrel


    Biggins wrote: »
    Maybe?

    I don't knooooooooooooooow


  • #23
    smokedeels
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,883 ✭✭✭smokedeels


    without the internet, computers are merely elaborate calculators.... with Doom.


  • #24
    Einhard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,920 ✭✭✭Einhard


    Mark200 wrote: »
    No.
    Logical Fallacy wrote: »
    Yes.
    Biggins wrote: »
    Maybe?
    rockmongrel wrote: »
    I don't knooooooooooooooow

    Can you repeeeeeeeat the question???


  • #25
    Einhard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,920 ✭✭✭Einhard


    smokedeels wrote: »
    without the internet, computers are merely elaborate calculators.... with Doom.


    With the internet they're just elaborate smut repositories.


  • #26
    Dravokivich
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,360 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    Mark200 wrote: »
    No.
    Logical Fallacy wrote: »
    Yes.

    You've both lost the Yes/No Game Show...


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