People that use the "internet" as a primary form of communication

Kevin_rc_ie

I'm not sure if this belongs here or Humanites.

I was reading this

today and it has some valid points.

I think it's about extreme cases only....

Sparky

me thinks he may be a bit on drugs

NotMe

Well he failed college because he spent too much time on forums so yeah...

shay_562

...did it ever occur to him that it's possible to do both? Not everyone who uses the internet is a creepy shut-in who hasn't seen sunlight since the 90s. Many of us manage to maintain normal, active lives at the same time - the hours I spend in this and other forums are the hours I'd spend watching TV otherwise, so I see this as a more enjoyable means of passing them, but hardly a substitute for real people.

ixoy

What an arrogant stilted piece of crap.

Firstly, one of its flaws is to suppose that everyone you chat to is a complete stranger. Rubbish - most of the people I'd chat to online are friends. I then - gasp - am also able to meet these people over pints or a kick of a football in the park or in the gridlock, et cetera.
The boards.ie chat room is another perfect example of people chatting to those who aren't complete strangers either.

Secondly, it implies that people chat online to the exclusion of normal social interaction. Please: Sure there're a few hermetic individuals, but the majority of people chatting online these days - via chat applets or MSN/AIM/Yahoo - do it in places such as work (naughty) or when idling at home. It helps because you can't always talk to people when are at work, or at home or some other location.

That article plays on all the inherent stereotypes of the web user and there's no irony in actual denouncing it on the web unless someone's going to pay for me to fly over to Speaker's Corner in Hyde Park and thus enable me to display all that wonderful body language he so misses.

Winters

I'll donate a fiver to your cause ixoy. Ryanair flights are cheap these days.

MicraBoy

You know the way ex-smokers often become virulently anti-smoking after they quit. That guy sounds a lot like that. Then again why blame a reformed addict for turning on the source of his addiction?

shellby

i wonder if he's anti phone, text, letter writing, postcard writing and pretty much any form of communication that doesnt involve eye to eye contact too

NotMe

It was from that point that I simply used the internet to get information*, turning my back on the pseudo-conversations that were taking place all around me.

* And writing articles about the evils of the internet. (I wonder who he's talking to in his article )

Sarky

Boards Beers tbh.

Shabadu

Sarky wrote:

Boards Beers tbh.

Darn tootin. The great thing about forums is that you can ignore the people you don't like, and cultivate friendships with those you do. I'm really looking forward to the Cuckoo's Nest mini-beers in September, getting to meet funky penguin and seeing MoJu again, and Sarky if we can lure him up to Dublin.


also:

article author wrote:

I needed O2, but all I found was zeros and ones.

I am going to track down this man and strangle him with his blundering analogies.