Could the internet be slowly ruining society?

Being completely serious here.

Social media is making people more and more distant in real life situations....valuable government information gets leaked to the public........countless other things.

Being completely serious here.

 

Social media is making people more and more distant in real life situations....valuable government information gets leaked to the public........countless other things.

Primordialous

Social media is cramp!  Everything else about the net is great. Cheers

Probably. But maybe not.

seems it brings out the stupid in people more than anything.

Well, people seem to friend someone on facebook as a way of trying to date.  Lol

seeing the fact that a lot of people just look at the internet 

Being completely serious here.

 

Social media is making people more and more distant in real life situations....valuable government information gets leaked to the public........countless other things.

Primordialous

seems it brings out the stupid in people more than anything.

konvikt_17

the internet is still pretty damn young given what a huge impact it has had, and will continue to have.

I would not say it is ruining society, but it is definitely changing it (and generally for the better, imo).  There will always be naysayer from the older generation (hell, I am only 29 and I complain about some things like an old man sometimes), but change is tough.

Having all this information, 99% of it freely available, is a beautiful thing.  The only downside is that, while I can look up this information, I don't seem to retain it as well as if I Had read it in a book, magazine, or actual news article.

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seems it brings out the stupid in people more than anything.

1PMrFister

I blame the anonymity more than anything.  People do not have to watch what they say, or even think about it, before expressing it via text on the internet.

meh, i think the postivies outweigh the negatives

and many people seem to forget that social media networks can actually facilitate human interaction

meh, i think the postivies outweigh the negatives

and many people seem to forget that social media networks can actually facilitate human interaction

rocinante_

exactly.  unfortunately, people forget that it is for facilitating, and instead use it for actual socializing.  I don't think social rules have translated well to social media.  Hell, even sarcasm and various inflections are hard to incorporate in most situations.