[QUOTE=Waals Vander;20166249]interesting[/QUOTE]
I read that and couldn't help but think of how America's school system is basically a factory for childishness
[QUOTE=ImBill;20166471]I read that and couldn't help but think of how America's school system is basically a factory for childishness[/QUOTE]
yeah i really don't understand/agree with their use of the word "infantilising"
Surprisingly FP has improved my grammar and spelling dramatically.
This only applies to a few websites on the internet.
[QUOTE=Waals Vander;20166575]yeah i really don't understand/agree with their use of the word "infantilising"[/QUOTE]
I believe it's a polite scientific way of that person saying 'kids these days are dumb and use facebook so much that they aren't getting any contact in the real world where they should be :downswords:'
[QUOTE=JLea;20166301]I don't see how that happened..[/QUOTE]
the internet megawaves messed with my neural synapses
[QUOTE=Kyle902;20166847]Surprisingly FP has improved my grammar and spelling dramatically.
This only applies to a few websites on the internet.[/QUOTE]Well, the mandatory Smartness and grammar systems really forced you to.
[QUOTE=Doug52392;20166965]Well, the mandatory Smartness and grammar systems really forced you to.[/QUOTE]
It's weird, when my grammar on the internet improved (Due to FP.), my grammar in real life improved.
I wonder what would happen if we put a smartness system on Facebook and Myspace....
The internet has really taught me alot, and every day I learn something new, from Lankist's arguments, to browsing Wikipedia about the DARPA project.
[QUOTE=green bandit;20167062]The internet has really taught me alot, and every day I learn something new, from Lankist's arguments, to browsing Wikipedia about the DARPA project.[/QUOTE]
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[QUOTE=Umi-hebi;20166892]I believe it's a polite scientific way of that person saying 'kids these days are dumb and use facebook so much that they aren't getting any contact in the real world where they should be :downswords:'[/QUOTE]
I have to admit, the internet sure as hell lets me talk to a lot more people, get a lot more perspectives, etc.
Plus it isn't necessarily safe outside. :tinfoil:
I don't exactly live by a lot of other kids so the internet lets me get out and talk to people at least.
A little known fact is that there are college graduates are incapable of creating a proper sentence or understand grammar in general.
[QUOTE=Teal Moose;20164706]The Internet has actually helped me. It has shown me examples of what happens in real life. It has also educated me since I often research scientific topics. I don't solely depend on the Internet though, I live in the real word. I don't live in a fantasy land. I deal with big boy problems and draw lessons from them, I don't use the Internet as an escape or a vent. It's all in which context youth handle the Internet.[/QUOTE]
Ironic that you're posting on an internet forum.
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[QUOTE=Wolf_Marine;20167426]A little known fact is that there are college graduates are incapable of creating a proper sentence or understand grammar in general.[/QUOTE]
Must be foreign countries where they don't teach good ole' fashion American English!
Well, SomethingAwful got something right.
The internet [I]does[/I] make you stupid after all.
Actually, if they added a smartness system to youtube/facebook the ENTIRE Internet would smarten up by an insane amount
I expected you to post the recent Frontline documentary about todays youth, and how technology and internet controls young adults, teens, and kids lives.
I [B]highly[/B] recommend everyone to watch this:
[URL]http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/view/?utm_campaign=homepage&utm_medium=proglist&utm_source=proglist[/URL]
[QUOTE=JLea;20169265]Actually, if they added a smartness system to youtube/facebook the ENTIRE Internet would smarten up by an insane amount[/QUOTE]
No it wouldn't.
Unless it was like FP's where a low enough score got you banned.
Why is it bad if they answer the questions 10 times faster and don't have to look at the same website twice?
The title make me think about how awesome it would be to have RJ45 connected on forehead, and to post on Facepunch with native use of my brain.
This thread reminds me of cyberpunk worlds like in Ghost in the Shell where everything is internet.
How is searching and reading articles on the internet different from searching and reading books in a library?
I still much prefer reading actual books to e-books, though the internet is invaluable for articles
[QUOTE=windwakr;20164668]Bouks anned lernin is 4 old poeple,
No, but seriously, we can learn more information faster using the internet. With a book, you sit there and painstakingly read all the boring shit before you get to what you need to learn. On the internet, you just surf to Wikipedia, skim through a page or two, and you're done in 100 time less time.[/QUOTE]
This is true, but piles of wikipedia printouts somehow isn't as cool as a bookshelf of fat books :(
Pfft, I was mentally ill long before I got a computer.
I'm 2 years into med school and hope to get a PhD. I know almost every single word in the English vocabulary, speak German and Spanish, and I don't smoke or drink, and I spend at least 2 hours a day on the internet after I get home at 4 PM before I spend another hour jogging around the block. Hurp durf the internets are mading me stoopid, books and lerning were furr my old selhf, the enternet has opined my eys, hurp durp.
you can't use ctrl+f on the page of a book
I found many of my favorite authors on the internet :v: So the internet has actually led me to read a lot more.
All I do on the internet is:
1) Porn
2) Facepunch
3) TED.com
Repeat
They can't control internet so they say it's bad.
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This article is a joke.
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He found that four in 10 people never revisited the same web page and that they viewed only up to three pages from the thousands available online.
In contrast, people who grew up before the age of the internet repeatedly return to the same source instead of flitting between sites.
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So what ? Is that the "problem" ?
I sometimes read sex stores on the internet.
If the internet is molding my brain, I don't give a shit. I enjoy every minute I spend on the internet. Most of the time, anyway.
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