IcaroRibeiro said:
Without internet I could have not:
- Make decade old friends I still keep in contact
I kept in contact much better with friends when we still regularly called and visited each other. The internet lost me real friends.
- Meet my current boyfriend
I met my wife playing Everquest, happily married 21 years now, so yeah can't fault that.
- Keep in touch and following the life of my family members after I moved
I lost touch with family members, too impersonal over Facebook.
- Started my masters during a pandemic
The pandemic could have been much less severe without all the misinformation spread online.
Home schooling was awful and a big negative on my children's social development.
- Being able to work from home
I've done that for 10 years, while more productive it also led to me quitting my job. The social aspect of working together, talking instead email, discussing in person instead of over Zoom can not the understated.
- Probably coulnd't even find a Job in tech, since most need internet to exist
Circular logic ;) Without the internet that problem would not exist!
- Couldn't use online services, shopping, banking
Same circular logic. Banking, shopping was all fine before the internet. And you could still talk to a person. In fact many things take longer to do online than before the internet. The 'work' is now all on the client.
- Keep the vast majority of my hobbies
Not for me, collecting physical movies/games, browsing game stores has/is becoming a thing of the past.
- Learn english, and using english to learn the huge amount of knowledge and content produced every day all around the world
I learned English by watching TV with subtitles and reading English sci-fi as a kid. Back when libraries were still abundant :)
I can only say my life would have been much more lonely, sad, unfulfilling, poorer and and financially deprived without internet
I voted positive |
My life has changed for the better through the internet as well. I got married and enjoy financial stability from my job in tech. But in the last 10 years it has become more and more detrimental.
The vast amount of entertainment available online means we hardly every watch anything together as a family. Everyone has their own 'stream', their own series to follow.
The internet brings people together, but at the same time seems to drive people further apart.
(Perhaps I'm a bit too gloomy on this subject today, fall depression is hitting hard today)
