Latest Thing To Blame On The Internet: The Death Of Jokes
from the you-just-aren't-funny-any-more dept
People love to blame the internet for "the death" of things (newspapers, music, social lives, grammar, etc., etc.). Those claims are rarely (if ever) accurate -- but at least you can sort of understand where they're coming from. However, this latest study makes almost no sense at all, claiming that the internet is killing the ability to tell jokes. According to the short blurb about the study, 40% of people would rather forward an internet gag such as a video or a rambling joke email than tell a joke themselves. Of course, given the joke-telling ability of many people, this might not be a bad thing. Furthermore, it seems like, if anything, this has simply expanded the market for humorous content, rather than shrunk it. Perhaps, instead, we should be more worried about the decreasing ability for people to understand jokes than the desire to tell them.Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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Jokes are very 1980s. Unless you're ten years old, who in the hell tells jokes? That is a fad that has long since passed.
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Death of Jokes? err... not quite.
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Re: Death of Jokes? err... not quite.
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see above
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Joke telling was much more common 15-20 years ago, so yeah... maybe it's a thing of the eighties. I think the Web played a large part in this decline.
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I'll occasionally chuckle (heh!) at a Web joke, but it's nothing like hearing a good joke told skillfully, which can double me over laughing.
Hearing a good joke : Reading web jokes :: Watching a game : Watching the post game wrapup
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wtf??? a show dedicated to momma jokes???
10 years ago, i would have never even dreamed of this kind of show...
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Re: Death of Jokes?
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Anecdotes is where it's at, baby.
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The death of joke telling is greatly exaggerated
http://www.comicwonder.com/joke/469512859
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Is this study a hoax?
I smell a well-spiced rat.
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Is this study a hoax?
I smell a well-spiced rat.
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You got it all wrong, tech dirt person
With that said, something like this site is pretty cool with competing against the text jokes that have ruined both the art of telling a joke, and the reception jokes and joke culture is receiving...
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