Would the world be a better place without the internet?



The Cage said:
Still can't get my head round people taking pictures of themselves while standing in front of mirror, pulling some ridiculous face then posting it on social media.
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Good shout - self obsession and “ hey ! Look at me in the Maldives!” have raised their ugly pouting heads on social media.

My daughter informs me that young ladies actually alter images of themselves before posting . I also hear of people ordering expensive clothes and even household goods- taking a piccy and then sending the stuff back .

What sort of insecure , shallow and tragic lives these people lead - I pity them and their status anxieties, their materialistic angst and jealousy.

How low they must feel when the make up is off , the belly is back, the pout gone and the Gucci toaster is winging its way back to its maker ? It’s a bizarre form of self flagellation .

I find it utterly bonkers.
 
There are lots of good points about the problems with it and I agree with pretty much all of them.

For me it allowed me to find out so much more information about my illness, a network of people in the same position with great advice and ultimately a surgeon who stepped in when my local lot had written me off.

Without the internet I’d probably be dead.

So it’s a no from me.
 
Scrap the internet and bring back the football pink.
Back then I thought Sunderland was near the North Pole.
My first ever trip up North was a game at Feethams Darlington and can still remember the magnificent sunset, we lost 1-0 and the locals spoke a different language. Happy Days and football then was a real adventure and cost me a month of my paper round wages :)
 
Swindon On Tour said:
Scrap the internet and bring back the football pink.
Back then I thought Sunderland was near the North Pole.
My first ever trip up North was a game at Feethams Darlington and can still remember the magnificent sunset, we lost 1-0 and the locals spoke a different language. Happy Days and football then was a real adventure and cost me a month of my paper round wages :)
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In the Lancashire Evening Post Football Pink there was a “spot the ball “ competition and a letters section wittily named “ in off the post “
 
Swindon On Tour said:
Scrap the internet and bring back the football pink.
Back then I thought Sunderland was near the North Pole.
My first ever trip up North was a game at Feethams Darlington and can still remember the magnificent sunset, we lost 1-0 and the locals spoke a different language. Happy Days and football then was a real adventure and cost me a month of my paper round wages :)
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Hadaway an shite man marra. We spraff the same as ye. I have an increasing inversion to social media. Never been on Facebook and never will, as am not a commodity. This place is cool, but have posted for a long time and am not that arsed anymore. I use it to find out quickly about SAFC. Nee disrespect to anyone, but can't think of anything worse than my life on the internet.
 
Book a flight?10 minutes online. Insurance? Ditto. Look for a house, car, do some shopping, learn a new language, get a food recipe, see what a gerenuk looks like, check out anything you want online, the worlds biggest library on your laptop or cell-phone, but it's only as good as the person using it
 
I do worry about the impact of social media. Sadly I know a couple of people whose FB account is rapidly becoming a suicide note.

There also needs to be tighter controls on porn.
 
Fred Basset said:
Hadaway an shite man marra. We spraff the same as ye. I have an increasing inversion to social media. Never been on Facebook and never will, as am not a commodity. This place is cool, but have posted for a long time and am not that arsed anymore. I use it to find out quickly about SAFC. Nee disrespect to anyone, but can't think of anything worse than my life on the internet.
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Never been on Facebook either.
 
Not a chance, the internet isn’t just there for Facebook and browsing the web, it transports unbelievable amounts of data around the globe at ridiculous speeds and underpins pretty much all essential services these days.
 
What we need then is to ban all forms of social media to save the world. Unfortunately that means this place as well. Although I’ve just been watching The Great Hack, and it seems that the purpose of FB isn’t to post pictures of your dinner, it’s to sell you things and gather data to drive election campaigns.
 
PNEFC111 said:
Good shout - self obsession and “ hey ! Look at me in the Maldives!” have raised their ugly pouting heads on social media.

My daughter informs me that young ladies actually alter images of themselves before posting . I also hear of people ordering expensive clothes and even household goods- taking a piccy and then sending the stuff back .

What sort of insecure , shallow and tragic lives these people lead - I pity them and their status anxieties, their materialistic angst and jealousy.

How low they must feel when the make up is off , the belly is back, the pout gone and the Gucci toaster is winging its way back to its maker ? It’s a bizarre form of self flagellation .

I find it utterly bonkers.
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Next level scruffy that like.
 
The problem isn't so much the internet, it's the social media companies.

Human beings will naturally set their limits to what they can get away with. While the likes of Twitter and Facebook openly allow disgusting levels of abuse, it'll continue - when companies/Police start taking this toxicity seriously and punishments are handed out, you'll see it die off. But while people know there's no punishment, they'll do it.

Of course a huge problem too is everyone is always available. If I fell out with a mate at school, by the time the next day comes, you've either got over it or you didn't talk. Nowadays, kids can carry the argument on, getting more and more angry, and it blows up.

The internet though has been the force behind most of the good in my life - and definitely does far more good than harm. And the harm would be reduced hugely if it was taken seriously
 
TheRey said:
The problem isn't so much the internet, it's the social media companies.

Human beings will naturally set their limits to what they can get away with. While the likes of Twitter and Facebook openly allow disgusting levels of abuse, it'll continue - when companies/Police start taking this toxicity seriously and punishments are handed out, you'll see it die off. But while people know there's no punishment, they'll do it.

Of course a huge problem too is everyone is always available. If I fell out with a mate at school, by the time the next day comes, you've either got over it or you didn't talk. Nowadays, kids can carry the argument on, getting more and more angry, and it blows up.

The internet though has been the force behind most of the good in my life - and definitely does far more good than harm. And the harm would be reduced hugely if it was taken seriously
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Perhaps one solution would be to give everyone a single online identity, like your NI number. You could then use this to register on social media sites, and if you misbehave and abuse people they could ban you and you wouldn’t be able to rejoin with an alias cos your NI number would be blacklisted. That’s half the problem on here. People get banned for being wankers and just rejoin with an alias to continue being wankers.
 

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