Shocker: People Use The Internet And Devices To Communicate
from the what-will-they-think-of-next? dept
How many times does this type of study need to be done? Despite the fact that the internet has always been a communications medium rather than a broadcast one (someone should remind the content companies), there are still those who somehow think that it's "isolating" and takes people away from communities. So, here's yet another study that tries to make it somehow "surprising" that people online stay in touch with a "wider assortment" of people and (oh my!) sometimes it even "encourages people to talk by phone or meet others in person." The first link includes a quote from a book author who is "surprised" by this finding because anecdotally he's heard of "people getting absorbed by a device." Beyond the fact that anecdotal evidence isn't worth very much, getting absorbed by the device has nothing to do with it. They could be communicating with plenty of people via the device... which is why they're so absorbed by it.
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Too much of a good thing
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it'd be pretty bad if it got down to that.
You still have to walk into the DMV if you want to get anything done relating to driving :-P
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Why? There are so many overweight people in America (for instance) with substantial numbers that have predated the internet boom. Clearly a deeper social issue at hand. I personally don't care about it very much since I actually exercise!
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The Web: Working hard or hardly working?
CHICAGO, Jan. 25 (UPI) -- Are you wasting time when online? Or working? A new study released this week showed that about 20 percent of government staff, while on the job, in one Malaysian state utilized the Internet for purely personal activities -- like downloading porn, games and music. This was one of the main causes of poor work performance in the Johor state, Bernama, the state news agency there said, quoting a top government official, Norsiah Harun.
Experts tell United Press International's The Web that the Internet productivity problem is global, and that cultural changes are needed to ensure that people are hard at work, rather than hardly working, as our parents' generation used to say. By Gene Koprowski
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1. My entire life revolves around the internet. I sit in my home, fix computers, and communicate with clients, colleagues, friends and family. I HATE talking on the phone, and only do it when I have to.
2. At least one of my now closest friends I met over the internet. He is a very facinating and intelligent person who is always interesting to talk to. Our family's get together on a regular basis. Chances are slim that I would have ever met him without the internet.
3. I communicate with two of my very best friends from HS on a very regular basis on the internet. Our worlds are very far apart, and communicating with them by phone would be very near impossable, not to mention letter. Email lets us continue daily discourse about the world, our families, and other generic conversation that would not happen if we had to write letters, or converse over the phone.
While there are people who use the internet to cut them selves off, and while there is plenty of sillyness on the net, there are those of use who find great use in it for professional and personal reasons.
Just becaue you can't figure out how to use it that way doesn't mean that somebody else can't. And having said that, I'm sorry that the internet has "hampered and not furthered" your "social existence." If that is something that is important to you, maybe you ought to consider a nother, more appropriate line of work?
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1.) If you had no friends before the Internet, you have no friends now.
2.) If your only vehicle for making new "friends" is the Internet and you only communicate with those "friends" is via the Internet, then you still have no friends. You are just a group of losers.
3.) If you feel alone and isolated now, you would have felt alone and isolated regardless of technology.
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