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Is the internet making people stupid, depressed or ill?

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I.E facebook, twitter, yahoo whatever. All people do is argue over stupid things, talk about stupid things, winge and whine about stupid things, and 99% of jeremy kyle arguments start on facebook.

 

That's all fine and dandy, until that enters the realm of real life. Ive been away from the internet for a while, and you'd be amazed how much personal growth you make in that short time away from the screen.

 

Intelligence? up 10 fold, depression? lifted! hunger for life? never hungrier! So many people live on the internet, to the point it's turning your brain into sludge.

 

Why not take some time away from all internet communication for 2 weeks. go for walks, see real people and enjoy real convosation (or at least try), take up a new hobby maybe, and go to new places that you've never been to.

 

Im sure after that 2 weeks, your going to feel like a new person, and if that's true, then my question will be awnsered.

 

 

Any volunteers?

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Actually it does not make me depressed, the things that make me depressed are in fact the stuff that are offline, the only thing online makes me depressed is cyberbullying.

 

Next its not easy than u think for me to communicate without the internet. I am stuck without communication if i dont have my computer to talk. I am active do volunteering but that does not resolve my problems.

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I personally think aspects of the internet have just created allowance of stupidity.

 

I don't think spending a 1 hour a day on something like facebook could have much of a negative affect, I think it's when people start to almost live on the internet, this is when they take things too seriously and forgot about what's really important in the real World.

 

I think taking time away from the internet is healthy, is a massive World out there to explore.

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I personally think aspects of the internet have just created allowance of stupidity.

 

I don't think spending a 1 hour a day on something like facebook could have much of a negative affect, I think it's when people start to almost live on the internet, this is when they take things too seriously and forgot about what's really important in the real World.

 

I think taking time away from the internet is healthy, is a massive World out there to explore.

 

I agree with most of the above. I have only had internet since 2009,I got facebook a few months after(mostly to connect with friends and family including my mum who live abroad) I do sometimes wonder what I done prior to having the internet,not least because I got it to study and have been studying since so its of great importance for that purpose.

 

I went about 6months without a laptop this year and I felt indifferent but this was also because I was not studying at the time and did'nt NEED it. Once I did get it for studying I gradually began to use it to come on here,I would go on fb on my phone to talk to my mum even when I had no laptop.

 

I guess its about getting the balance right,one does not have to go cold turkey so to speak,to realise there is more to life. I have kids so I guess its different because I cannot just sit on the laptop all day,we go out,we bake,we do homework etc. My partner has his retreat time on the PS3 and I have mine in the laptop so in a sense it is my relaxation time.

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Facebook is brain drain without a shadow of a doubt and it amazes me to understand what is the fascination with the place, haven't people got something better to, apparently not it seems, but I have a presence on there,to share my photography and crafts with my family, but I am not there much and no one is interested in the pathetic; ''What's on your Mind''

 

 

But the internet at large for people that like to suck in information on anything that takes their interest the internet is a virtual library, especially the stuff that google can't or won't find as google according to many researchers has taken a noticeable dive in the last half year, where it appears it is putting commercialism and agenda before fact and truth.

 

The various special interest forums well they are aspie, all of them in their action, in that being special interest one is communicating with others on the common special interest where in the off line world one may bore another stupid with the special interest as those whom we meet casually may not have our special interests.

 

So for aspie and there is a lot of them perhaps the majority undiagnosed web forums are our saviour.

 

So it's not all bad.

 

But facebook is as when I do go out with the friends I used to have it was the three of us and two of those three were logged into facebook via their smart phones and it was obvious facebook was more interesting than face to face communication, but myself not being 'into' facebook, well I don't have my ex friends special interest, so they bore me stupid beyond being rude.

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Facebook is brain drain without a shadow of a doubt and it amazes me to understand what is the fascination with the place, haven't people got something better to, apparently not it seems, but I have a presence on there,to share my photography and crafts with my family, but I am not there much and no one is interested in the pathetic; ''What's on your Mind''

 

 

But the internet at large for people that like to suck in information on anything that takes their interest the internet is a virtual library, especially the stuff that google can't or won't find as google according to many researchers has taken a noticeable dive in the last half year, where it appears it is putting commercialism and agenda before fact and truth.

 

The various special interest forums well they are aspie, all of them in their action, in that being special interest one is communicating with others on the common special interest where in the off line world one may bore another stupid with the special interest as those whom we meet casually may not have our special interests.

 

So for aspie and there is a lot of them perhaps the majority undiagnosed web forums are our saviour.

 

So it's not all bad.

 

But facebook is as when I do go out with the friends I used to have it was the three of us and two of those three were logged into facebook via their smart phones and it was obvious facebook was more interesting than face to face communication, but myself not being 'into' facebook, well I don't have my ex friends special interest, so they bore me stupid beyond being rude.

 

 

Wonderful words, wish we had a like button on these boards.

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I don't think it does any of those things AS Warrior - it's like the age-old debate about video games being a bad influence to the younger generations etc...If you believe that you'd believe anything and besides parents only have themselves to blame if they allow their kids to play games with an 18 certificate. Let's not add fuel to the debate by suggesting the internet is all a bad influence too.

 

The way things are going we're already seeing a debate pushing towards an internet which may very well soon feel like a TV-based teletext! I shudder at the very thought I really do.

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The internet is a tool which you simply need to understand to ge the best out of it. I love the fact that I can go on specialist forums and speak to people around the globe about my triathlon training for example. Without the internet I would not have been able to talk about possible surgical options for my back with people who have been through the procedure passing on to me their personal experiences. The fact they are on the other side of the globe doesn't matter.The internet is not all bad.

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Also given my recent discovery that lead to a possible life changing positive, I would not have been able to do it or force action if it was not for the internet for I did try in the past through the good old library but the information I needed was simply not there where on the internet it can be found and I have contacts who enable me to access many documents which are otherwise hidden behind professional body stone walls. And so I was able to self diagnose from the professional criteria, all I needed to complete was the testing and given I taught myself a rudimentary understanding of genetics I understood the complete process of diagnosis where I was able to read the karyotype image not just understand what the clinician had written beneath.

 

My next field of self understanding is the endocrine system ready for the specialists I have to see where they will not be able to blind me with science of baffle me with male bovine manure where it is hoped I will know what is being said so I understand my situation as at the end of the day it is my healthcare, me and what I want to make my future better, where I know as I have experienced there are a whole variety of learned people that can be very variable in their performance.

 

The internet I have to thank for getting to this point in my life and I would have been in the same destructive patterns without it where if no one else cares, I do.

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I love the internet as it allows me to do stuff that I couldn't normally do: such as write on forums like this. But I don't do FB, Twitter or any social media - I don't have friends so what's the point? Perhaps if I had friends, I might think differently, I dunno. But yes, I agree, a certain search engine has taken a nosedive of late which is why I turn to books for some of the factual information I need.

 

I think you can probably find almost anything you want on the internet - including self-diagnosis for any condition which can be either a good or a bad thing. But then if we're going to become a police state and a certain body of people in a certain "house" in London are going to monitor our sufing habits and our email etc, then maybe some people will think twice about using the internet for looking up certain things.

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