computers brake our social life!
what's your opinion on this...?:rolleyes:
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computers brake our social life!
what's your opinion on this...?:rolleyes:
I dont think so...I still maintain a fairly health social life. I find time for friends and family and what not even with my computer addiction (I guess you could call it that)
Depends if you let it. I personally prefer to be out more, I'm on the computer in my spare time, usually after work or when i wake up for an hour or two...
Well I guess in a sense of face to face ...
but through computers I can affordably communicate with people all over the world...
Social life on a different scale I guess
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i have to agree with copyright on this one..depends on yourself and you only have yourself to blame if you do not make!!!!!!!!!!! the time..thats my take anyway..i have started as early as 1996 and i still have a healthy social life..
I think that the people that stay in their house in front of their computer all of the time are probably some-what antisocial to begin with... I spend quite a bit of time on the computer, but I still make time for family, friends, church, bars... etc. so I guess I am in agreement with the above posters.
No, it doesn't. I never had a social life to begin with before I used computers (more then 20 years ago)..Quote:
Originally Posted by alakhiyar
My view is that computers and the internet are blamed for a lot of things that are just not logical.
If you are an introverted couch potato then that is what you are........... what you do whilst avoiding society is pretty much irrelevant?
Bars close every now and then.......... so I have to resort to computers if there is nothing on TV :drink:
Interesting question. I have friends who would definitely say that of me, but I think the truth is closer to: I just don't enjoy hanging out with my friends doing what we did for the past 25 yrs anymore, like i used to. I find I want to stay home a lot more, and the pc allows interacting with others without having to actually BE there with them. And when I've had enough, I hit the power button.
Computers make great crutches at times: people use them to avoid interracting with others in person. People use them to hide.
A somewhat simple view is that they have just changed the way in which we communicate with each other - and we dont know what the impact is in full yet. It will take decades - maybe a century - to see how we humans evolve and evolve our culture due to this change.
I have always been using computers, most of my life, so I can't say I'm interracting with humans less than before...would say it's the same.
I work third shift, if it weren't for computers I would not have a social life.
I would agree to a point. In my case it does not effect my social life in the least bit. Yes, I'm on the PC alot, but that is also because I make money on it and at work I have no choice. When I leave work I pretty much leave the computer alone except. The only times I go on is to check my stocks, mail, sales and thats about it. When I'm not at work/on the PC I'm spending time with my friends, fiancee, at the gym, going to the batting cages and just living my life to the fullest.
Now on the other side of the spectrum the computer has pretty much taken over/ruined my nephews life at the moment. Ever since he got WOW in about 3 months ago that is the only thing he does. Before he started playing WOW he would go out with his friends, go to the batting cages with me and just be normal. Now we are lucky to get him to come out and eat dinner at the table , it has come to the point where his mother is ready to take the damn PC out of his room because of the time he spends on it.
The other night my sister (his mother) asked me if I could monitor what he is doing on there, so I installed a keylogger and what I found was more than disturbing.
So I can see both sides, but I think it depends on the person. Some people get addicted to things easier than others
i never had a social life... i was always the quiet kid in class that people made fun of when i was in grade school..
now that im in highschool making $5+ an hour more than them... thanks to the computer skills i picked up in my absense of social life... they wont leave me the hell alone with questions
although what social life i could of developed didnt because i was always in a digital relm.. online what i think is instantly translated to my fingers and keyboard... face to face what i say tends to stumble out of me...
computers can be an excelent part of a social life if you keep it in balance.. but it can be devestating in some cases
Does the original poster mean "brake" as in what the pedal that isn't the accelerator does or "break" as in what fix doesn't mean?
In the first case I'd be inclined to disagree, the tubes make the process of making arrangements about a million times easier and let us organise parties on a whim without all that bother of planning ahead.
In other case, I know what you mean at least, the beauty of IMing or e-mail is that you don't have to talk to anyone and making conversation is no longer a required skill unless you actually want to. When you meet someone in person after all that it can lead to quite some awkwardness (experienced this recently, it almost started a fight).
But all in all, your social life is essentially what you make of it, not what the technology at hand dictates.
Ooo, sorry to hear about this. That's why the experts say to never let a kid have the computer in their room. Hopefully you and your sister got involved in time.Quote:
Originally Posted by alakhiyar
I'm no psychologist but know one (actually I stayed at a Holiday Inn....oops, sorry couldnt resist), but from what I've been told it's normal for kids to get obsessed or deeply into something new like a video game or computer or whatever. However, it's up to us adults to try to help them with balance...how is another story.
Best of luck to your sis and you with this. The Internet is a scary place for a kid (not sure how old he is but scary for most up to 18). :(