Dodd wrote:

ryan4butler wrote:Its the internet's fault and now people have left their chairs and went out into the world to drive, work, talk and do other stuff. In less than one generation, it will all be over.

I totally agree. Our generation has kick started something scary in regards to the way technology is running our 'social' lives. People are in their little artificial bubbles all day (laptop, cellphone, etc.) if people made a conscious effort to actually talk to people around them and embrace the real world I think everyone would start to head in a more positive direction. Thats why I make an effort to talk to everyone around me and keep a positive attitude and most importantly no facebook. Mass media is teaching everyone to be as judgemental as possible and I don't think thats right. Just my 2 cents

IDK where the world has gone.

Dodd wrote:I think their will come a tipping point when people with a respectable level of intellect will be significantly out numbered by idiots. I think we are on a fast track right now, I mean if people like Nikki Minaj and characters of that level can make millions I have serious doubts about the future.

ps If YOLO becomes part of everyday speech I'm going to kill myself.

YOLO is so annoying. It makes me want to jump off the Queensboro Bridge with raging sharks in the river.

Next time someone says YOLO, I'm skinning and hanging myself from a tree in Central Park.

Red Hood wrote:Next time someone says YOLO, I'm skinning and hanging myself from a tree in Central Park.

#YOLO!

Based4Life wrote:

Red Hood wrote:Next time someone says YOLO, I'm skinning and hanging myself from a tree in Central Park.

#YOLO!

Alright, someone give me a butcher knife and a cable!

Yes. And this fact keeps getting funnier every time I think about it.

didich wrote:Yes. And this fact keeps getting funnier every time I think about it.

Fact?

Based4Life wrote:

didich wrote:Yes. And this fact keeps getting funnier every time I think about it.

Fact?

The Internet is an interesting mirror to analyse. I'm not saying that the Internet makes people dumber, but (and you can find examples in, but not limited to, this very forum) it tends to show a more irrational side of an individual, thanks to the anonimity it provides.

Cracked article to follow: http://www.cracked.com/article_19860_5-scientific-ways-internet-dividing-us.html

Not that Cracked's sources are totally reliable, but the article explains (and I think it's right, at least partly) that the Internet, instead of serving its original purpose (that's it, to be a place to discuss many diferent subjects and understand different opinions) has started to divide one person from another. This division doesn't necessarily make people dumber, but it obviously limits their ability to assimilate and comprehend information that it's not accepted by the majority, effectively becoming another tool in which individuals are taugh to follow the mass.

When one follows the mass, it's because, generally, he or she feels accepted by it. Therefore, this individual won't be afraid to impose his/her opinion over another, even if this opinion doesn't make too much sense from a logical, argumental standpoint, because he or she knows that the mass will be suportive.

One becomes part of the mass, and, in essence, loses lots of the qualities that make this person an individual. Why? Because of the behaviour I've described. The process of one's own radicalism exponential growth is, theoretically, repeated ad infinitum = characteristics that are shared witht he mass growth exponentially, those which are not shared start to get eclipsed and then disappear into oblivion, the person then is incapable of accepting new information if it's not shared by the majority of the mass.

I said it's funny, because that's not the Internet's purpose and it shows how inherent is this quality (the need of acceptation, to become something bigger than oneself) in human nature. This, so-to-speak, 'loophole' can be abused as much as any other ideal, to manipulate people.

Why we love dogs, eat pigs and wear cows?