Pixels and their consequences

wageslave

I have no answers. Only questions.

What keeps bringing people back here? What panics them and makes them try to stop doing online?

Who are we turning into and is it basically wrong?

lostinrates

wageslave wrote: »

I have no answers. Only questions.

What keeps bringing people back here?

Time, giggles, habbit (some times ducation)What panics them and makes them try to stop doing online?Nothing...its not a panic..its a redress of balance

Who are we turning into and is it basically wrong?

I don't know the last bit. I always think balance is healthy.

fc123

wageslave wrote: »

My very first attempt at a thread on here so be gentle with me

What constitutes a relationship nowadays? Can a pixel really be a friend?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00r3qhg/The_Virtual_Revolution_Homo_Interneticus/

How has the web affected you?

That looks interesting...will watch that later.

Communicating/chatting by written word is a bit different to just chatting. With writing you can edit or read back on someones comments...whereas in real life, you can put your foot right in it and not be able to delete or forget bits of the converstation.

My kids are addicted to FB etc. it's part of their lives. DD and the 'World of Me' photos are something else. Teen narcissism at it's best.

I guess humans will always interract as we are social animals and we just do it in different ways now.

I didn't 'discover' forums until 2007 and I like reading about others lives, problems and such like plus all the totally different views. Years ago, it would just be the letters page in the paper. Good for info on things I never knew about before.

I would class a few posters on here as friends and I don't think it's much different to Real Life friendships.....and I will meet up with some soon for sure.

The bit I don't get is how it can 'catch' you.....sometimes I feel a compulsion 'just to see' ansd I can't explain it. Maybe as I mostly work at home and need a 'water cooler' moment plus feel I 'know' a lot of people on this board now.

I still use the board for free therapy and discovered that I like writing ...esp problems as it helps unravel them in my head....I don't think I have ever written so much as in the past 2 years, at least since I was at school.

It's the only time I get to talk about me myself I too....so apologies in advance.:o

Cleaver

wageslave wrote: »

What keeps bringing people back here? What panics them and makes them try to stop doing online?

Who are we turning into and is it basically wrong?

Posting on here can be fun, informative and pretty harmless. But let's face it, if you're on here then you're not doing something else, like working, studying, cleaning, doing exercise or anything else that is seen as 'constructive'. And it can be addictive, like Facebook or something like that, because it's a constantly changing environment so you always have a thread to check or read. So I guess you feel a bit guilty 'wasting time' on here, which is why people try and quit.

It's also a good way to be a persona that you can't be in real life. I'll bet good money that amcluesent doesn't engage in conversation at his workplace about the UK becoming an Islamic state in ten years and I can't see White Horse meeting a single mum in Tescos and screaming at her that she's a scumbag. It's an opportunity for people (including myself) to do a bit of showboating and be someone else for a while, just for entertainment.

wageslave

fc123 wrote: »

That looks interesting...will watch that later.

Communicating/chatting by written word is a bit different to just chatting. With writing you can edit or read back on someones comments...whereas in real life, you can put your foot right in it and not be able to delete or forget bits of the converstation.

My kids are addicted to FB etc. it's part of their lives. DD and the 'World of Me' photos are something else. Teen narcissism at it's best.

I guess humans will always interract as we are social animals and we just do it in different ways now.

I didn't 'discover' forums until 2007 and I like reading about others lives, problems and such like plus all the totally different views. Years ago, it would just be the letters page in the paper. Good for info on things I never knew about before.

I would class a few posters on here as friends and I don't think it's much different to Real Life friendships.....and I will meet up with some soon for sure.

The bit I don't get is how it can 'catch' you.....sometimes I feel a compulsion 'just to see' ansd I can't explain it. Maybe as I mostly work at home and need a 'water cooler' moment plus feel I 'know' a lot of people on this board now.

I still use the board for free therapy and discovered that I like writing ...esp problems as it helps unravel them in my head....I don't think I have ever written so much as in the past 2 years, at least since I was at school.

It's the only time I get to talk about me myself I too....so apologies in advance.:o

So the net for you is a positive place?

I think, I don't know, I just think, that fear of the net is very much an older thing. Your Ma can't work it so it worries her to death.

I am probably very wrong but I see the digital city as a positive thing. It helps us grow and learn. Why fear it?

That's just me though

fc123

wageslave wrote: »

I have no answers. Only questions.

What keeps bringing people back here? What panics them and makes them try to stop doing online?

Who are we turning into and is it basically wrong?

I don't think it's a panic thing......I can only speak for myself as I try to limit my time online as it can just rollover for hours....reading stuff, commenting, thinking.
The more time here, the less time making/thinking about pointless consumer goods.

I read rubbish magazines, papers, watch telly on catch up and try to limit that too.

I am meant to watching LFW shows online at the mo...and I just wanted to answer a pm, popped over just to 'see'....and another 10 mins gone...whoosh....:o
and the shows are soooo.....dull...but got to keep in touch.

WS thread is more of a draw to me right now than the shows.

fc123

Cleaver wrote: »

Posting on here can be fun, informative and pretty harmless. But let's face it, if you're on here then you're not doing something else, like working, studying, cleaning, doing exercise or anything else that is seen as 'constructive'. And it can be addictive, like Facebook or something like that, because it's a constantly changing environment so you always have a thread to check or read. So I guess you feel a bit guilty 'wasting time' on here, which is why people try and quit.

It's also a good way to be a persona that you can't be in real life. I'll bet good money that amcluesent doesn't engage in conversation at his workplace about the UK becoming an Islamic state in ten years and I can't see White Horse meeting a single mum in Tescos and screaming at her that she's a scumbag. It's an opportunity for people (including myself) to do a bit of showboating and be someone else for a while, just for entertainment.

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

And I have a wodge of unread papers too...only read Liz Jones and looked at my horoscope...and this is why I am reading here instead. That is the funniest thing I have read today..I can't stop laughing.

fc123

wageslave wrote: »

So the net for you is a positive place?

I think, I don't know, I just think, that fear of the net is very much an older thing. Your Ma can't work it so it worries her to death.

I am probably very wrong but I see the digital city as a positive thing. It helps us grow and learn. Why fear it?

That's just me though

Yes...but I only choose to involve myself with things that interest me etc.

Anything neg or dull, I don't bother...but same as real life.

My stepfather is deff addicted to something online as my mother compains about him being on 'that dam computer ' all day. He's 78.

wageslave

fc123 wrote: »

I don't think it's a panic thing......I can only speak for myself as I try to limit my time online as it can just rollover for hours....reading stuff, commenting, thinking.
The more time here, the less time making/thinking about pointless consumer goods.

I read rubbish magazines, papers, watch telly on catch up and try to limit that too.

I am meant to watching LFW shows online at the mo...and I just wanted to answer a pm, popped over just to 'see'....and another 10 mins gone...whoosh....:o
and the shows are soooo.....dull...but got to keep in touch.

WS thread is more of a draw to me right now than the shows.

I will be honest here, the net fascinates me. The way information travels across it, the relationships that are formed, the people we become online.

Whatever we believe, whatever happens next. This my friends is the future, we better find a way to make sense of it

sss555s

wageslave wrote: »

I have no answers. Only questions.

What keeps bringing people back here? What panics them and makes them try to stop doing online?

Who are we turning into and is it basically wrong?

I think it's because we haven't anything better to do. If we were Robbie Williams and had a gig then we would be at the gig. If we had tickets to see the gig we would be there instead of here. When given the choice of a re-run of top gear and Palin around Europe for the 12th time for us lot we'd rather choose to come on here and this place can be educational and fun.

As for trying to stop spending so much time online i think it's guilt. Others were used to you doing other things that may have helped them but now as you use that time online they give you a hard time for it or you may have used to do more gardening and had a lovely garden but now it's not quite so nice as you prefer to be online more.

Who are we turning into... It's just evolution. I seen a thing on TV saying the effect when cars were first on the roads and people were being killed all over the place, drivers and pedestrians.
It was never going to stop cars as they were such a good thing so they had to evolve it into society.

Same with TV. Before TV people would go dancing and to the cinema more then TV came along and people would stay in at nights and get fat , but it didn't stop it, people go to the gym or try to be more active to compensate.

I think the Internet is a smaller change in both those things as far as physical change mainly because TV was first but it does make us more knowledge and other positive and negative things too.