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chris_wot · 2013-10-22 08:08:34

Argh! Internet should say "Interest"

savanaly | karma 3849 | avg karma 3.59 · | 2015-07-30 09:29:55

If they don't want to use the internet, they don't have to, right? The benefits and cost of internet use are concentrated on the individual, so I'm not sure that we should expend a lot of effort to force them to "join" the internet if they don't want it.

Nasreddin_Hodja | karma 44 | avg karma 0.31 · | 2022-05-07 11:01:56

> Why do you waste so much time on the internet?

Why not? It's not a problem. Before internet era people spent much time on useless things like reading books (mostly fiction), watching TV, playing video games etc.

Internet is just a communication tool people use to exchange information.

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dbingham | karma 4645 | avg karma 6.22 · | 2021-01-27 19:33:39

It says that they've had better things to do with their time than waste a lot of it on the internet.

vbphprubyjsgo | karma -5 | avg karma -0.1 · | 2022-02-18 10:49:30

one reason i dont like using the internet is because i have to read this same "oh nooo the internet is distracting" shit over and over, even on a site about programming

marukokinno | karma 26 | avg karma 1.0 · | 2014-01-12 17:16:12+00:00

Like Bender said: "Forget about the blackjack! And you know what? Forget about the Internet!"

naillo | karma 1899 | avg karma 4.36 · | 2023-07-31 07:39:19

If I wasn't dependent on using the internet for income I would just try to find other ways of using my free time than the internet at this point if the worst case outcome in the article came to pass.

legends2k | karma 492 | avg karma 2.48 · | 2021-01-27 16:27:37+00:00

Internet in a modern world isn't option, really, you know!

blakesterz | karma 10179 | avg karma 7.73 · | 2013-10-24 11:53:38+00:00

Maybe this title should be more like... "How having internet access changes the way people choose to spend their time". It's not like The Internet is attacking people, we choose to do this.

sliverstorm | karma 24708 | avg karma 2.23 · | 2013-09-26 19:53:36+00:00

I've found the internet largely does not fill useless time with useful things. It fills useless time with useless things.

dotcoma | karma 5585 | avg karma 3.02 · | 2024-02-12 18:05:33

OMG! who’s gonna use the Internet anymore? ;)

Havoc | karma 16454 | avg karma 2.29 · | 2020-11-06 20:20:31

Crappy expensive internet means it's not instinct to squeeze a quick browsing session into every free minute

moloch-hai | karma 1102 | avg karma 1.12 · | 2022-12-28 23:55:49

Title should be "I turned off the internet".

arvinsim | karma 2173 | avg karma 1.41 · | 2020-03-14 22:31:11

To think that with the modern internet, there should be less incentive to be physically present.

nextworddev | karma 1160 | avg karma 2.28 · | 2024-04-28 00:18:51

Internet is distracting them

zwkrt | karma 3759 | avg karma 5.52 · | 2021-01-27 07:10:36+00:00

If you’re doing all that it seems like a lot of cognitive dissonance to keep using the internet. It is optional, you know!

Adamantcheese | karma 296 | avg karma 1.53 · | 2019-01-30 21:25:02

The internet isn't fun and weird because you don't actively seek it out. You're content with what you're given and what everyone else uses and put no effort into getting what you want because you can't bring yourself to care enough for it.

cypher543 | karma 379 | avg karma 2.79 · | 2013-05-12 10:56:50

Why is this needed? Are people really so lazy that they can't just type "the Internet"?

throwaway2048 | karma 9048 | avg karma 2.51 · | 2017-07-12 21:37:32+00:00

The idea that people should be willing to go without Internet, and if they don't they clearly don't care enough is self defeating and silly.

koboll | karma 4148 | avg karma 5.93 · | 2019-08-09 11:20:39+00:00

If anything, most internet has use has to be at least somewhat more stimulating and engaging than passively sitting on the couch for hours staring at a screen.