50 Things Being Killed by the Internet

[hampstor]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/6133903/50-things-that-are-being-killed-by-the-internet.html

These ones immediately reminded me of beyond:


1) The art of polite disagreement
While the inane spats of YouTube commencers may not be representative, the internet has certainly sharpened the tone of debate. The most raucous sections of the blogworld seem incapable of accepting sincerely held differences of opinion; all opponents must have "agendas".

9) The myth of cat intelligence
The proudest household pets are now the illiterate butts of caption-based jokes. Icanhasreputashunback?

14) Dead time
When was the last time you spent an hour mulling the world out a window, or rereading a favourite book? The internet's draw on our attention is relentless and increasingly difficult to resist

[Xtrema]

7) Adolescent nerves at first porn purchase
The ubiquity of free, hard-core pornography on the web has put an end to one of the most dreaded rights of passage for teenage boys – buying dirty magazines. Why tremble in the WHSmiths queue when you can download mountains of filth for free in your bedroom? The trend also threatens the future of "porn in the woods" – the grotty pages of Razzle and Penthouse that scatter the fringes of provincial towns and villages.

More like cell phone killed this one:


27) Knowing telephone numbers off by heart
After typing the digits into your contacts book, you need never look at them again.

[masoncgy]

Good read.

What I find the most unnerving is the fact that so many internet 'addicts' no longer have the ability to communicate in person... people living in the same house with each other will take out their frustrations on one another through e-mail, instant messages, etc.

It's ridiculous. We are going to have a generation of individuals who can't speak their language properly, spell properly, or be effective in-person communicators.

What am I saying? We're already there!

The internet does nothing for the obesity epidemic either... simply encourages it to spiral further out of control.

While the internet has been an amazing achievement for mankind, it's also contributing to the downfall of our society in more ways than one.

[Boat]

The article seemed really condescending and too nostalgic. Near the end it lightened up a bit. :D

[Xtrema]

50) Your lunchbreak
Did you leave your desk today? Or snaffle a sandwich while sending a few personal emails and checking the price of a week in Istanbul?

Damn!

[Majestic12]

Proper grammar

[JfuckinC]

14) Dead time
When was the last time you spent an hour mulling the world out a window, or rereading a favourite book? The internet's draw on our attention is relentless and increasingly difficult to resist

i still do this!
i love looking out windows and just spacing out haha..

[Jlude]

Originally posted by Xtrema


Damn!


That's me. I eat at my desk everyday while reading the news on the web.

Only time I go outside is for a smoke.

[arian_ma]

Originally posted by JfuckinC
14) Dead time
When was the last time you spent an hour mulling the world out a window, or rereading a favourite book? The internet's draw on our attention is relentless and increasingly difficult to resist

i still do this!
i love looking out windows and just spacing out haha..
Only when you're stoned out of your mind!
:rofl: jk jk

[Masked Bandit]

"50) Your lunchbreak
Did you leave your desk today? Or snaffle a sandwich while sending a few personal emails and checking the price of a week in Istanbul? "




:(

Busted.

[JfuckinC]

Originally posted by arian_ma

Only when you're stoned out of your mind!
:rofl: jk jk

lol :poosie:

[wintonyk]

13) Memory
When almost any fact, no matter how obscure, can be dug up within seconds through Google and Wikipedia, there is less value attached to the "mere" storage and retrieval of knowledge. What becomes important is how you use it – the internet age rewards creativity.

Haha at my place I have a laptop in the living room dedicated to google search and IMDB

[mx73someday]

Regarding number 7, can someone explain to me why it's so common to find random porn in forest trails surrounding suburbs? Were kids hiding it there or something? I never understood why this was but it has always fascinated me.

[Pollywog]

Originally posted by mx73someday
Regarding number 7, can someone explain to me why it's so common to find random porn in forest trails surrounding suburbs? Were kids hiding it there or something? I never understood why this was but it has always fascinated me.
Pm location of trails please.

[kevie88]

Originally posted by mx73someday
Regarding number 7, can someone explain to me why it's so common to find random porn in forest trails surrounding suburbs? Were kids hiding it there or something? I never understood why this was but it has always fascinated me.

I remember being a little guy growing up in the 70's and 80's in Marlborough Park and finding porn at the hockey arenas behind the community center in the winter time.. I took it home and got busted by my parents with it. I remember clearly my father saying to my mother "well at least he isn't a homosexual!" ahaha

I still wonder why this happens..

[85FltWd]

The comments posted after that drivel give me hope that all is not lost. Reading/comprehension and critical thought have not yet disappeared completely.

[Masked Bandit]

Originally posted by mx73someday
Regarding number 7, can someone explain to me why it's so common to find random porn in forest trails surrounding suburbs? Were kids hiding it there or something? I never understood why this was but it has always fascinated me.


Well because you couldn't keep the shit at home. After you stole the stuff from your old man you had to go somewhere with your buddies where you wouldn't be caught.

[95teetee]

Originally posted by masoncgy
Good read.

What I find the most unnerving is the fact that so many internet 'addicts' no longer have the ability to communicate in person... people living in the same house with each other will take out their frustrations on one another through e-mail, instant messages, etc.
my boss was saying that his kids will stand around with their friends and text each other...from like 3 feet away:facepalm:

[403Gemini]

Originally posted by Masked Bandit
"50) Your lunchbreak
Did you leave your desk today? Or snaffle a sandwich while sending a few personal emails and checking the price of a week in Istanbul? "




:(

Busted.

Man... I work from home and still get burned by that

[illtim3d]

7) Adolescent nerves at first porn purchase
The ubiquity of free, hard-core pornography on the web has put an end to one of the most dreaded rights of passage for teenage boys – buying dirty magazines. Why tremble in the WHSmiths queue when you can download mountains of filth for free in your bedroom?


HAHAHA this is money

[DannyO]

:rofl: some of those are soo true, the future is not gonna be flying cars and living in Space, its gonna be just like the movie Idiocracy, we are DOOMED.

[flipstah]

Originally posted by DannyO
:rofl: some of those are soo true, the future is not gonna be flying cars and living in Space, its gonna be just like the movie Idiocracy, we are DOOMED.

I could go for some Starbucks right now :poosie:

[jonnycat]

Porn in the bush was awesome. Once me and my buddies found a tree fort with loads of mags. We stole them and brought them to our inferior tree fort and all had a good read for an hour. We then wrapped them in a garbage bag, and dug a hole under a tree root. We stuffed them under it for safe keeping and future weekends. We never found them again.