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The Internet’s a bloody walking disaster area ennit. Spyware, credit card thieves, porn everywhere (afraid im guilty of occasionally checking it ) privacy issues etc.
Were we all actually better off back in the early 90’s when we didnt have the bloody thing at all? Was life simpler and better?
I said in a thread recently that it was the greatest invention ever, but have we really created a monster?Agreed. This bl o o d y thing appears to be the above all and end all in this house. I pop in and out and on and off in between the daily things i have to do. But the hubby comes in and thats it, the world stops for the f u c k i n g thing. I have said many a time i would be happy to get rid of it, and i would i dont rely on it and i certainly dont need it. However, my worse half would have a tant and i cant cope with that even less.
Im in agreemance. We spend more time nowadays talking to people we are never actually likely to meet than we do to people in the real world. Im as guilty of this as the next person but its like trying to stop smoking isnt it. It becomes addictive. Sad but true.
Internet: – good and bad.
Biggest problem is amount of time one can spend (my son’s addicted to Runescape, MSN etc.)
Still, I suppose time spent on the internet is often time that would otherwise have been spent watching telly!
When I was young I can remember spending ages just keeping a Scalextric car going round and round to see how long I could keep going without crashing. Not much different from computer games.
We have made a bit of money from Ebay and I do online share trading as an alternative to pouring money into a pension scheme that might decide it can’t pay me anything. Not big bucks, mind, I’m not exactly the next George Soros!!!
Actually i do agree i dont sedmuch time on it tbh, my husband rarely touches it but hes the same with all his comps you know big boy toys psp,xbox,ps2 etc hes not so fussed which i am pleased about. It wouldnt bother me if we didnt have it afterall what did we do before the PC? :shock:
In a way, I do think we were better without it. I’m the only one in my house who uses it though, and always the same sites really – OH checks emails a couple of times a month and has a browse on ebay, but that’s about his limit LOL :lol:
I do worry though, about the amount of stuff people, especially kids can get access to these days (all the paedophile ‘grooming’ etc). I know when my kids start using the net, I will have to get as many parental controls as possible – but you can’t protect them from everything, can you? :(
We don’t yet hear much about people giving up their computers. Yet there must be a growing number of people who were part of the net-surfing, messaging PC generation but have turned their back on their comps.
True, there are prob loads who have – but when it comes down to it, the net is really useful, I don’t really think I could give mine up now :?
Once you have got used to a new technology, its harder to give it up because you know what you will be missing.
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True, there are prob loads who have – but when it comes down to it, the net is really useful, I don’t really think I could give mine up now :?
Once you have got used to a new technology, its harder to give it up because you know what you will be missing.
It is useful, but i could give it up…….plus i nearly got a divorce over it last year. :lol:
I could if I had to
I just don’t wanna [-( :lol:
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