zomg really?
who pays people to research this shit?
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.
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.
Give net some ♥
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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".
> 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.
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.
lol normal
lol internet
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?)
> 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.
Watching stuff on-demand seems different, there's more of a conscious choice involved.