The Internet is like my desk at work....

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#1 FragStains
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It's a horribly and unrectifiably cluttered garbage pile of useless crap and office detritus of the highest order. But it also contains vital connections to how my life goes operates.

Getting back to how cluttered it is, think about how many pop-ups, useless "Punch President Bush and win a prize" ads, and "If you want a bigger ****, click here" spam emails have been produced. Think about it. Seriously, stand up, rub your chin stubble (even the females) and think about it. Someone had to make all those annoying things.

How any man hours have been used up creating this worthless garbage, that could've been spent in a productive, meaningful way in society?

On the other hand, I pay my bills via the internet, I harangue you guys via the internet, I do research for school and work via the internet, I keep in touch with people via the internet. So much of my life would be drastically different if not for the internet.

I have a love-hate relationship with the Internet. Currently, I weighing the pros and cons of the Internet and based on my findings I may boycott the Internet so as not to encourage such inefficient and pointless usage of man's greatest technological creation.

Feelings on my current conundrum?

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#2 Squall18
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I think the internet is fascinating!! I'ts endless

But I HATW viruses, whoever made them should be put in an errored java script FOREVER

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#3 cd_rom
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I haven't seen any of those flashy ads in a very long time. I also get roughly 4 spam e-mails a day. What sites have you been visiting :??

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#4 montzag
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The internet is awesome man.
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#5 AltAcct
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The internet is awesome and I love it and wish it to never go away, though it can continue to evolve if it sees fit. Sure, it's messy, and there's some ridiculously awful stuff on it, but there's nothing better than the convenience it has created (researching companies, purchasing things, learning about upcoming events) and the connections it allows. I mean, I talk to people from |not Maryland| here. And I take it for granted. People I never would've considered with viewpoints I would never have conceived. Also, e-mail > actual letters.
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#6 tOtalPWNaAe
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Teh internet is teh portal to other dimensions:o
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#7 tOtalPWNaAe
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[QUOTE="AltAcct"]The internet is awesome and I love it and wish it to never go away, though it can continue to evolve if it sees fit. Sure, it's messy, and there's some ridiculously awful stuff on it, but there's nothing better than the convenience it has created (researching companies, purchasing things, learning about upcoming events) and the connections it allows. I mean, I talk to people from |not Maryland| here. And I take it for granted. People I never would've considered with viewpoints I would never have conceived. Also, e-mail > actual letters.

Imagine an internetless life:|?
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[QUOTE="tOtalPWNaAe"][QUOTE="AltAcct"]The internet is awesome and I love it and wish it to never go away, though it can continue to evolve if it sees fit. Sure, it's messy, and there's some ridiculously awful stuff on it, but there's nothing better than the convenience it has created (researching companies, purchasing things, learning about upcoming events) and the connections it allows. I mean, I talk to people from |not Maryland| here. And I take it for granted. People I never would've considered with viewpoints I would never have conceived. Also, e-mail > actual letters.

Imagine an internetless life:|?

I don't think I could. It would be like imagining a world without the invention of the printing press 50 years ago.
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#9 AltAcct
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Imagine an internetless life:|?tOtalPWNaAe
I refuse. Even when I didn't have internet for a month here or there, other people did, so they could access information for me even if I could not. I mean, I've basically used the internet in some form or another my whole life :o
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#10 FragStains
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I haven't seen any of those flashy ads in a very long time. I also get roughly 4 spam e-mails a day. What sites have you been visiting :??

cd_rom
I'm speaking of my overall internet usage history from years back when I had to wait 3 minutes for my modem to dial a number 6 towns over to connect to the internet and then had ads in my browser. I don't get 99% of the ads that are out there, which makes me even more worried at how much time is wasted by people creating this useless content for the internet.
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#11 AltAcct
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[QUOTE="cd_rom"]

I haven't seen any of those flashy ads in a very long time. I also get roughly 4 spam e-mails a day. What sites have you been visiting :??

FragStains
I'm speaking of my overall internet usage history from years back when I had to wait 3 minutes for my modem to dial a number 6 towns over to connect to the internet and then had ads in my browser. I don't get 99% of the ads that are out there, which makes me even more worried at how much time is wasted by people creating this useless content for the internet.

Anyway, the time people spend on the internet used to be used for things like Origami. Sure, it's neat, but actual usefulness?
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#12 LJS9502_basic
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Yes the internet can be cluttered. Reason why I skimmed your post.:P But it's all in how you use it. My desk is at work is neat and orderly. Easy to find things...same experience I have with the internet. Happy browsing....

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#13 tOtalPWNaAe
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[QUOTE="Locke562"][QUOTE="tOtalPWNaAe"][QUOTE="AltAcct"]The internet is awesome and I love it and wish it to never go away, though it can continue to evolve if it sees fit. Sure, it's messy, and there's some ridiculously awful stuff on it, but there's nothing better than the convenience it has created (researching companies, purchasing things, learning about upcoming events) and the connections it allows. I mean, I talk to people from |not Maryland| here. And I take it for granted. People I never would've considered with viewpoints I would never have conceived. Also, e-mail > actual letters.

Imagine an internetless life:|?

I don't think I could. It would be like imagining a world without the invention of the printing press 50 years ago.

lol,I cant live a day without the internet,let alone eternity
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I thinks it's more like a tree of monkeys. The tree itself, beautiful and has a lot of places to sit down and relax. But the monkeys in the tree. If you look up to the tree you only see bottoms. They might even drop a **** or *** on you. It's horrible. The people on the same level as you, the ones you talk with are just a bunch of monkeys. When you're up in the tree and look down, you see stupid monkey faces. The monkeys below might throw something at you. Everyone hates everyone, and yet there are rules, atleast in most places. Everyone can jump away from the tree and see the real world, or stay in the monkey tree. You can even see the real world from some springs in the tree's leaves. Some people like to alter this spring, and some springs are found so fun, they become memes. Memes are engraved in the tree itself, from where they unfortunately never leave.

This is the monkey tree. This is Internet.

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Sorry, was feeling a bit philosophical, and had to chip in on the internet.

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#15 FragStains
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[QUOTE="AltAcct"]The internet is awesome and I love it and wish it to never go away, though it can continue to evolve if it sees fit. Sure, it's messy, and there's some ridiculously awful stuff on it, but there's nothing better than the convenience it has created (researching companies, purchasing things, learning about upcoming events) and the connections it allows. I mean, I talk to people from |not Maryland| here. And I take it for granted. People I never would've considered with viewpoints I would never have conceived. Also, e-mail > actual letters.

I disagree on your last sentence. I'd much rather get a physical letter than a impersonal email.
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#16 iam2green
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yeah, the internet is a bit of garbage around. i hate sites that are there then u click on a link and it send me to another site. sites that say they are free but u need an account to pay for it. sometimes the internet can be good idea.