Internet Use Said to Cut Into TV Viewing and Socializing (13)

2 Name: CYB3R H4XX0R G33K 04/12/30(Thu)10:09 ID:Heaven [Del]

But what is so bad about less TV Viewing? The Internet is full of educational information, all the TV/Games/Movies/Music if you know where to look, and all on demand. I don't need a television company to tell me when I can watch the shows and movies I like.

As for the socialising bit, well, you get that. It happens.

3 Name: !WAHa.06x36 04/12/30(Thu)16:33 ID:zJ/jQJf1 [Del]

Would somebody tell those people that there are PEOPLE on the INTERNET with whom you can socialize, too? Not that one shouldn't meet people face-to-face, too, but there's the implicit assumption that one should only ever meet and socialize with people face-to-face, and that anything else is somehow wrong, and it's really starting to annoy me.

4 Name: CYB3R H4XX0R G33K 04/12/30(Thu)17:07 ID:Heaven [Del]

Give net some ♥

http://4-ch.net/net/

5 Name: CyB3r h4xX0r g33k 2005-04-18 10:22 ID:BLf3TM8F

>>3
age for agreement. It stupid how ppl come saying "oh being on the internet makes you less sociable". Hello there is IM, email, forums.

Of course traditional ppl would say "But you must face ppl face2face to have a normal social life".

6 Name: CyB3r h4xX0r g33k 2005-04-18 11:27 ID:Heaven

> Of course traditional ppl would say "But you must face ppl face2face to have a normal social life".

Well, there's some truth to that. Offline relations are more concrete, solid, real if you will. Even when you just write a letter to someone, it's more of a mind thing than if you directly spoke to that person.

Anyone who has ever had a long-distance relationship will know what I am talking about.

7 Name: CyB3r h4xX0r g33k 2005-04-19 20:17 ID:98Lr9QAL

In an offline relationship, it's harder to avoid seeing someone or discussing something that you'd rather not. There's no time to think about how you're going to deal with something as the rest of the world moves on without you. Everyone can taste your unease, see you fumbling. To make things worse, you don't have immediate access to a lot of information that you can take for granted online, so it's much harder to respond to any situation you haven't planned out in detail beforehand. It's an extremely hostile environment for the socially unskilled or unprivileged.

Online relationships are a facilitator: people who don't stand a chance of being treated fairly in the real world can interact with real people without fear. Hesitation, preparedness, racial background, speech disorders, and all sorts of other irrelevant stuff that get picked on offline don't apply online.

It's the offline world that prevents people from leading a normal social life, I say.

8 Name: CyB3r h4xX0r g33k 2005-04-20 11:22 ID:Heaven

lol normal

9 Name: CyB3r h4xX0r g33k 2005-04-20 13:38 ID:Heaven

lol internet

10 Name: KJI!XDpPLAUYlQ 2005-04-20 19:53 ID:d8bSWsn5

The TV thing should be apparent though.

I mean, I don't even watch TV anymore. (Except does watching anime on your computer count as TV? What about Movie piracy?)

11 Name: CyB3r h4xX0r g33k 2005-04-21 19:41 ID:98Lr9QAL

> Except does watching anime on your computer count as TV? What about Movie piracy?

I like to think not. Oversimplified truisms like "TV sucks" work better that way.

12 Name: CyB3r h4xX0r g33k 2005-04-22 12:54 ID:Heaven

Watching stuff on-demand seems different, there's more of a conscious choice involved.

13 Name: CyB3r h4xX0r g33k 2005-04-23 05:02 ID:98Lr9QAL

>>12
That's true, and you're more likely to talk about stuff that you want to watch. As long as there's speculation involved and you're not just numbly regurgitating overstated quotes, it isn't all bad.

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