What’s the net effect of the internet on humanity?
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Corty
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It's not the internet that is causing any harm; it's the people. Mostly not even the average users but the corpo fucks who set the rules of the internet.
Example: How Google curates what you can find for your searches and what it lets you see. That’s why I stopped using it
Then the ISP bullshit you Americans have to deal with. When I first learned about it, I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. You guys are getting fucked over big-time.
As for the users, meh. It's not a big deal. There were always retards who bought bridges thinking they would be rich and drones who thought the Earth was round and not flat on a turtle’s back.
Example: How Google curates what you can find for your searches and what it lets you see. That’s why I stopped using it
Then the ISP bullshit you Americans have to deal with. When I first learned about it, I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. You guys are getting fucked over big-time.
As for the users, meh. It's not a big deal. There were always retards who bought bridges thinking they would be rich and drones who thought the Earth was round and not flat on a turtle’s back.
Assurbanipal_II
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It is a means of communication~.
LilRora
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I prefer another answer here. The internet has made people do a lot of good and bad things that cannot be easily compared. If I had to, I would say it's overall indirectly caused more good than harm, but depending what angle we take, it's very easy to argue it has caused much more harm than good.
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The internet in theory means easy looking up of things, more connection, and the ability to post things for others to see.
In practice, it only really does the last.
There is a deal where people typically went outside and verified things. Now with Wikipedia able to update information, there is a scary sense of 1984 / Mandela Effect where something you observed or memorized is rewritten just like that, and the info corrected might not even be right (it's definitely "Luke, I am your father") but the person correcting it gets the last word.
There is also an isolation epidemic, as most of the population goes to work, then home, and sits too long. I'm not some fogey who does the "young people are spending too much time in front of the computer." If my folks took away my tech devices, I'd not suddenly become social. But it's like, in the 80s and 90s, I could goto a book store or bar or something and randomly meet the girl who I would spend the next three years chatting with. Nowadays, they are all at home using an app to swipe right or left at a 5-second impression, then they tell you "it's a match!" when actually both of you were bored and not paying attention. And if you don't happen to have any apps or completely lack confidence in them, you're pretty much cut off.
All the same, my author career (such that it is), depends on Scribblehub and Amazon KDP.
In practice, it only really does the last.
There is a deal where people typically went outside and verified things. Now with Wikipedia able to update information, there is a scary sense of 1984 / Mandela Effect where something you observed or memorized is rewritten just like that, and the info corrected might not even be right (it's definitely "Luke, I am your father") but the person correcting it gets the last word.
There is also an isolation epidemic, as most of the population goes to work, then home, and sits too long. I'm not some fogey who does the "young people are spending too much time in front of the computer." If my folks took away my tech devices, I'd not suddenly become social. But it's like, in the 80s and 90s, I could goto a book store or bar or something and randomly meet the girl who I would spend the next three years chatting with. Nowadays, they are all at home using an app to swipe right or left at a 5-second impression, then they tell you "it's a match!" when actually both of you were bored and not paying attention. And if you don't happen to have any apps or completely lack confidence in them, you're pretty much cut off.
All the same, my author career (such that it is), depends on Scribblehub and Amazon KDP.