Why do we flock to the internet? because we are socially inadequate, lonely, or loooking for love or sex; ... any one, or any mixture of these; ... Discuss ...
But srsly, why the sombre mood? ;-) I use the net to communicate with friends who are far away - cheap, fast and oh so interactive. Other uses include online dictionaries and thesauri plus the occasional dispute with like-minded people about life/politics/whatnot since not many people in my area like talking about these.
Besides - who needs love when you've got all this information!!! (joke :D)
We welcome all defense of television and, also, condemnation of the internet on this forum.
'Soon as I find out about a turn off your internet group on SU, i'll join, ...and I will assuredly make more than one single post about a totally different information venue to defend my position.
Otherwise, I'm with ya completely, bro...
... but I just don't feel that you're presenting a just comparison.
=If you want to defend television, then you definitely wouldn't want to compare it to the entire internet.
You're a luddite, right? Oh well, I'm a fan either way.
Who - me? Nah. Tech rox. Guess I might have overreacted LOL :D
Internet's actually good for you... once you get adblock installed. I mean I like the idea of travelling with a laptop for instance and uploading picks from my travels for my friends to envy me see.
I can't IMAGINE living without it!!!
Ok, I can, but I like the dramatic effect of that last sentence :D
I've considered the quandry of a potential irony by having an anti-Television group on the internet, and I have decided that Television is simply an antiquated if not archaic purveyance [only slightly superior to radio, hear me out...] of any and all information within the current technological era in which we are.
Information should be interactive, the limited interactivity of switching between different channels owned by the same company is the root of Televisions outdatedness. People naturally want to know what other people actually think *who don't have to spend money to get their opinions heard*. TV is far too scientific for the common man, people want a casual atmosphere where lots of individuals from different outlooks are discussing common issues as those issues relate to themselves. But that product model will just never work on TV. They try with so-called reality-based programming, but they will always fail because real reality is never going to conform itself sheerly to accommodate their bottom line like the implied reality of television is flogging themselves to fake.
As an example, when is the last time you saw a recklessly anti-TV statement ON TV? Discuss...
All good points. I wonder btw. what will be the next tv or the next internet...
Another thing worth discussing: the rebirth of tv after it'll be long forgotten by the corporate media (say in 100-150 years)... or will it neve rhappen due to things like youtube...?
It's GIGO. If we get better writers and virtual reality, who knows what the future might be? Right now it has definitely been regression toward the mean. Sigh.
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