Things the Internet Killed, Unfortunately

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aGDevil2k said:
I feel like it killed the innocence of childhood overall.

Everything is on camera.

We used to have small worlds...we didn't know much more outside of our communities. Now these kids know everything going on.. In some ways it's cool cause they will be more globally aware. But damn there's no innocence
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Are they truly more globally aware?

I doubt they are.

They, like their parents, might think violence and war is more prevalent than it is because they saw massacres in the Sudan and Congo and Ukraine and a brutal stabbing on a light-rail car in a medium-sized city.
 
aGDevil2k said:
I feel like it killed the innocence of childhood overall.

Everything is on camera.

We used to have small worlds...we didn't know much more outside of our communities. Now these kids know everything going on.. In some ways it's cool cause they will be more globally aware. But damn there's no innocence
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i am increasingly convinced (and a lot of people who study this stuff seem to agree) that it is really fucking up our brains.

my mental health and brain function have seriously improved since i got rid of all social media early this year.

people are entirely too focused on what is going on with people/places/things that don't really concern them IRL at all to the serious detriment of their actual real lives.
 
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aGDevil2k said:
I feel like it killed the innocence of childhood overall.

Everything is on camera.

We used to have small worlds...we didn't know much more outside of our communities. Now these kids know everything going on.. In some ways it's cool cause they will be more globally aware. But damn there's no innocence
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The Challenger blows up every fuckin day.
 
This was a How I met your Mother gag but it really rang true. The Internet killed fun inconsequential arguments based on your best guess. The actors were arguing about which food was the most common in America. Hamburgers, Pizza, tacos, etc. They were all into it. Quick cuts to a dower face looking at a smartphone and the answer was bread.
 
If we all of a sudden went back to 1995 technology, I wonder how I would feel about it. I wonder if I would go crazy without all the things that I have become accustomed to and are part of everyday life 30 years later.

There are some things we could completely do away with and I’d be totally fine, and there are other things I would not want to do away with. Then there are things I appreciate having now, but their existence has nearly destroyed things I love or now miss. I like being able to easily find things I’m looking to purchase on the internet, but I miss going into brick and mortar stores. I love being able to easily find almost any music that’s ever been published, download it directly to my phone, and take my entire music collection with me anywhere I go without having to find space in my home for a record/CD collection, but I miss doing my music shopping at a record store and holding the physical album. (And yes, there are still some record stores out there— not many— but the cost and convenience of music steaming is too hard for me to pass up.) I like not coming back from a vacation to a bunch of work that’s piled up while I was gone, but I miss getting completely away from work during vacations.
 
Icky Mettle said:
If we all of a sudden went back to 1995 technology, I wonder how I would feel about it. I wonder if I would go crazy without all the things that I have become accustomed to and are part of everyday life 30 years later.

There are some things we could completely do away with and I’d be totally fine, and there are other things I would not want to do away with. Then there are things I appreciate having now, but their existence has nearly destroyed things I love or now miss. I like being able to easily find things I’m looking to purchase on the internet, but I miss going into brick and mortar stores. I love being able to easily find almost any music that’s ever been published, download it directly to my phone, and take my entire music collection with me anywhere I go without having to find space in my home for a record/CD collection, but I miss doing my music shopping at a record store and holding the physical album. (And yes, there are still some record stores out there— not many— but the cost and convenience of music steaming is too hard for me to pass up.) I like not coming back from a vacation to a bunch of work that’s piled up while I was gone, but I miss getting completely away from work during vacations.
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The music thing would be the hard one for me. That and not having digital photos (I do not miss film).

I miss good network TV...25 episode seasons without all of the damn options. I mean it's nice in a way but it's just too much sometimes. But there would be a lot about 1995 tech that would be really nice....
 
aGDevil2k said:
The music thing would be the hard one for me. That and not having digital photos (I do not miss film).

I miss good network TV...25 episode seasons without all of the damn options. I mean it's nice in a way but it's just too much sometimes. But there would be a lot about 1995 tech that would be really nice....
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Oh yeah. While it would be good if certain people (teenagers/young people) didn’t have cameras with them all the time, I do like that I have a digital camera with me nearly all the time.

And yeah, the TV thing is another one of those things where I appreciate what we have but miss some aspects of what we had. I like being able to watch nearly anything I want— with nearly infinite options— whenever I want to. I miss the shared experience of watching something at the same time as everyone else and the excitement that builds as you wait for a show to air at a specific time on a specific day.
 
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