2008-09-19, 09:07 PM
The internet as a research method only? Sure.
Everything else? No, no, no. One of two things will happen to people when they excessively use the internet as a social tool. One, they will become a selfcentered, immature, sub-intelligible blob. Examples of such are people who use myspace, gaia, or /b/ frequently. After they exit this phase of their life (if they ever), they will maintain their selfcentered attitude for much of the rest of their lives, and will most likely die happy because they are ignorant of how utterly useless they were in life, and how much suffering they wrought on others in order to please themselves. The second group are the people who end up like me; manic-depressive, cynical, frozen-hearted assholes who look down on the rest of society and only see their many flaws. Every time when walking outside, it is physically painful to observe other people going about their daily lives, blissfully ignorant of what the OCD people like this go through.
Either way is NOT the correct way to mature; one leaves you as a child for most of your life, the other leaves you a husk of your former self, filled only with hate for others. Of course, these are the extremes of the spectrum, for people like me who are online every waking hour of their lives, but the fact remains that society has taken to a disturbingly downward spiral in it's social networking skills. You need only look at me to confirm that, I suppose.
Everything else? No, no, no. One of two things will happen to people when they excessively use the internet as a social tool. One, they will become a selfcentered, immature, sub-intelligible blob. Examples of such are people who use myspace, gaia, or /b/ frequently. After they exit this phase of their life (if they ever), they will maintain their selfcentered attitude for much of the rest of their lives, and will most likely die happy because they are ignorant of how utterly useless they were in life, and how much suffering they wrought on others in order to please themselves. The second group are the people who end up like me; manic-depressive, cynical, frozen-hearted assholes who look down on the rest of society and only see their many flaws. Every time when walking outside, it is physically painful to observe other people going about their daily lives, blissfully ignorant of what the OCD people like this go through.
Either way is NOT the correct way to mature; one leaves you as a child for most of your life, the other leaves you a husk of your former self, filled only with hate for others. Of course, these are the extremes of the spectrum, for people like me who are online every waking hour of their lives, but the fact remains that society has taken to a disturbingly downward spiral in it's social networking skills. You need only look at me to confirm that, I suppose.