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How useful is the internet to you?

Very useful
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89%
Somewhat useful
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Little bit
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QuantumT
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Re: How useful is the internet to you?

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Greta wrote: Sun Jul 22, 2018 2:24 am No loss, I'm older and done most of my socialising already. It's not a condition, it's a trait. Whatever, introversion IMO is a healthier state than extroversion in many ways. I think people should receive treatment for human dependency and fear of facing their own minds alone.

If anything, online blabbing makes it easier for me to chat. I am more confident because I now have a clearer measure of my mind and those of others, and how they fit and don't fit.

The extroverted often worry about the introverted. Why? Because they themselves are upset, rather than comfortable, alone. I reckon the main reason why singletons don't live as long as those in a relationships is because when they have major heart event or stroke they simply die, rather than being found and revived, often to continue existence but without "life". There is zero problem at my end as long as my health is okay. The problems perhaps lie more in those who feel a terrible void when not with other people.
I couldn't have said it better myself! :wink:

I enjoy being alone. I'm only stressed when I'm with people. And I think they behave insane most of the time.

If I feel like feedback, I'll just go on a forum, and start a discussion about reality or issues of society.
If I'm impatient, I'll start a discussion about Trump :mrgreen:
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Re: How useful is the internet to you?

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QuantumT wrote: Sun Jul 22, 2018 6:48 pmI enjoy being alone. I'm only stressed when I'm with people. And I think they behave insane most of the time.
EXACTLY.

I remember being in hospital for a tonsillectomy in my early teens. I'd been stuck in a room with kids who were noisy, vomitting copiously and who stole my things. Eventually they were discharged and on my last day I finally had the room to myself. Bliss.

In the morning I lay contentedly in my bed reading when a nurse walked in and thought it unacceptable that I should be by myself. She sent me to have breakfast with other kids, who immediately attacked me and I soon retreated after being threatened with violence.

In truth, outside of biochemical imbalances and brain disorders, the vast majority of psychiatrist visits will be ultimately due to either:

1. extroverts suffering due to their lack of independence or

2. introverts suffering due to extrovert expectations and mistreatment.

Introverts who have learned to no longer fear or respect extroverts don't need psychiatrists because they can analyse themselves, being more able than extroverts to step back to relative objectivity and face themselves and their flaws baldly. Extroverts often find such introspection and clarity difficult because their heads are so full of the conflicting voices of those whose opinions they are supposed to care about.

All this crap about the internet causing autism and social dysfunction is unscientific bollocks spread by extroverts worrying that people are becoming less like them.

The issue is that extroverts do not believe the science that demonstrates that neither orientation is better or worse, just different. Extroverts seem to believe deep down that every introvert is an unfulfilled extrovert unable to get out, and this is behind their demonisation and mistreatment of us - trying to get us to "snap out of it" and join them in their social vacuity.

It doesn't occur to them that within many extroverts are quite possibly introverts waiting to mature.

People are wonderful - in doses.
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Re: How useful is the internet to you?

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Philosophy Explorer wrote: Wed Jul 18, 2018 4:24 pm I would say it's useful for me.

There are numerous possible uses for the internet which is very often in the news. A side question would be is it getting more useful or has it plateau'd?

So what do you have to say?

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"the net" was tops 18 yrs ago, and has been decending to "Worthless" since 2007.

it was good/great from late 90's to 2005 or so.

since 2007 or so (facebook/myspace/etc) - social media crap its gong downhill and fast.

Facfk only wants to make the "internet private", and with so many sheople that sign up (I'm not a facfk member nor will ever be one), we see less and less "forums" (those that - like this one - still exist for how long?)!!!!!!!!! - some go to facefk, others just dry up and close shop (too many sheople on facefk to sign up on forums outside of)..................newpapers are too cheap to have "Comments" sections - so BBC/Reuters/CNN - just "outsource" (close shop - too fking cheap to maintain servers/admins for their site!) to facefk..............

dark days.

add the death of net neutrality and we can look forward to our IPS to wall off any websites they object to.

I rem when the ISP stopped giving access to the Usenet (thanks Andrew Quomo! (I want to be president someday!)- asshat!) - in 2002. I had to afterward pay for access to.

not been a "member of Usenet" since 2008 (I'm cheap - 20 bucks a month is the going rate these last 2 decades).

I only hope that with the destruction of the Web via Facefk/ISPs post net neutrality, there will still be a Usenet for me to sign up for in the future!

God bless the Usenet!
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