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Has the web changed something about you ?
Has the web created areas of interest that you never had before ?
Have you seen things on the web that have changed you, and the way you think ?
Have you changed your lifestyle because of it ?
Do you have fetishes that the web brought to life ?
etc etc.
OverTheStars
06-08-09, 05:38 PM
Sciforums has done of all those things for me. I started out close-minded and ignorant from my religious upbringings, to having all my questions answered by this community. I still come here when I need good insight on things. I wish I found this place sooner. :)
takandjive
06-08-09, 05:40 PM
The web actually helped me focus on what I wanted to do for the rest of my life and really helped me decide on radiology. Otherwise I think I'd have ended up either working a crappy office job or doing something related to women's health.
The web actually helped me focus on what I wanted to do for the rest of my life and really helped me decide on radiology. Otherwise I think I'd have ended up either working a crappy office job or doing something related to women's health.
Has it expanded your interest in other areas. Maybe farther than you would have expected it too.
In other words, did it allow thoughts or feelings to take place that without it you would have never contemplated ?
takandjive
06-08-09, 05:51 PM
I shouldn't say that on medicine. My ex encouraged me into that. Deciding on radiology/radiography was the 'net.
It definitely has expanded my artistic world. I grew up in the middle of nowhere. I never went to a lot of art museums or anything as a child, but now I love Bosch, Scott G. Brooks, Misha Gordin. I've had a chance to correspond with these guys because of the internet. It's made me a more well-rounded person. I can certainly say I'm more cultured as a result than my peers who grew up in urban settings because I was hungry for it.
I'm an intellectually curious person, and that's been fed by the internet. It's done everything from make me change my international political views to more liberal ones to get me to reading foreign newspapers to keeping my chess score up. It's been an amazingly positive experience for me.
Web allowed to increase my knowledgebase a thousand fold and still going. That allows me to make good decisions on health, solving problems for my clients (money) and the knowledge brings peace.
chris4355
06-08-09, 06:43 PM
yes
grimace
06-08-09, 07:01 PM
Sciforums has done of all those things for me. I started out close-minded and ignorant from my religious upbringings, to having all my questions answered by this community. I still come here when I need good insight on things. I wish I found this place sooner. :)
well lets see now. here is your first post:
http://sciforums.com/showpost.php?p=424758&postcount=23
so you say that you have improved since then?
codanblad
06-08-09, 07:13 PM
sciforums has gotten me laid heaps of times, does that count? i think its improved my arguing skills, and shown me a lot of different opinions. exposure to anything i wouldn't see just within australia has been great too.
OverTheStars
06-08-09, 07:17 PM
Why'd you post that?? xD
I wasn't even driving yet. But yes, I've improved.
grimace
06-08-09, 07:18 PM
lol...i couldnt resist.
OverTheStars
06-08-09, 07:21 PM
I don't think that was my first post, either. Unless the forum was pruned. I wonder if this board has the ability to block posts from public view... how embarrassing.
grimace
06-08-09, 07:23 PM
it was too funny considering the context. sometimes these things just work out that way.
I don't think that was my first post, either. Unless the forum was pruned. I wonder if this board has the ability to block posts from public view... how embarrassing.
LMFAO. Note to self, if you don't want it seen, don't put it on Sciforums.
sciforums has gotten me laid heaps of times, does that count? i think its improved my arguing skills, and shown me a lot of different opinions. exposure to anything i wouldn't see just within australia has been great too.
Hell yes that counts.
But what about the web in general ?
OverTheStars
06-08-09, 07:38 PM
LMFAO. Note to self, if you don't want it seen, don't put it on Sciforums.
Don't put it on the internet, period. You never know who is Googling your username. Which reminds me, I should change mine now. It's like five years old.
Takandjive,
It definitely has expanded my artistic world. I grew up in the middle of nowhere. I never went to a lot of art museums or anything as a child, but now I love Bosch, Scott G. Brooks, Misha Gordin. I've had a chance to correspond with these guys because of the internet. It's made me a more well-rounded person. I can certainly say I'm more cultured as a result than my peers who grew up in urban settings because I was hungry for it.
I'm an intellectually curious person, and that's been fed by the internet. It's done everything from make me change my international political views to more liberal ones to get me to reading foreign newspapers to keeping my chess score up. It's been an amazingly positive experience for me.
Awesome. Curiosity and the internet are a match made in heaven.
Chris,
yes
Ok. Stop trying to take control of the conversation.
Has the web changed something about you ?
Has the web created areas of interest that you never had before ?
Have you seen things on the web that have changed you, and the way you think ?
Have you changed your lifestyle because of it ?
Do you have fetishes that the web brought to life ?
etc etc.
The internet has allowed me to write, to be read and to read other's opinions. Before the internet I could never engage in the kinds of conversations I always wanted to, but being from a closed minded town found no one to exchange ideas with. I was shocked at how people seem to be much more aggressive over the internet. I don't think these people really engage in conversations as ill mannered as they sometimes come across on the internet. I think some people feel it isn't a real person they're talking to but a randomly generated computer reply programme. or if they do they must be quite acidic in real life. i take what people say to heart too much I suppose. I'd never really seen much porn before the internet either, so finding that was a little bonus, although I don't watch it these days. I think I've seen about all there is and it was a novelty that wore off quite quickly. I've been changed in many ways by people I encounter on the internet, I've been introduced to new music and films. I discovered a penchant for Japanese cinema and blues. I think my ideas about the world have been expanded and really value when I meet the odd person who I identify with and read their views. This place has some terrific minds here and I've learnt a lot, although information about science is somewhat withheld in a kind of "If you're too stupid to understand I'm not going to explain it to you" way. I am an addict, I have been for the last seven or eight years and before that I was an addict in some other capacity, but I think the internet can be a better addiction than some things. I'm not really sure if I'm a fetishist though, and so I'm not sure if the internet has brought about any. but it certainly supplied me with a wide range of porn that pushed the envelope more and more. I've never found anything of spiritual meaning on here though. Religious debate always ends up being futile since it's never a debate it's always someone pushing their opinions on each other. I like being able to form relationships and I like to observe people and that's what I enjoy most. Other than that I'm not really sure what kind of fetishes there are. How about you, has it changed you jp?
yeah
i sit on my ass more.
shopping, bill and tax pay, applications and renewals, email, voip, p2p, media streaming, whatnot, all online.
next year in cali. e-voting
EmmZ,
It has in many ways. I have an addictive personality as such I tend to go crazy over something when I come across it.
So when I find interesting subjects I would dig and dig and the web allows for an almost endless amount no matter the subject.
In areas that I would frankly be too embarassed to research in the public realm to information gathering that helped me solve issues that I could not without it.
I think the bad is that we don't connect in person. But, where else could you see such open dialog as found in this forum, in a public place.
I think for me, the fetish question is like the porn question. You know you have one the moment you see it.
Youtube and google are amazing devices for everyone, both those who want to look, listen and read and those who want to present their finds, skills and works.
I would say the biggest impact it has had on me is that I have learned more about myself and what lies deep inside than I had ever imagined it would. If you told me to start typing into the google machine and that it would tell me my thoughts I would have said your crazy. But it has, it's like a truth telling machine. The only way to beat the lie detector in this case is to make it uninteresting.
leopold99
06-08-09, 08:02 PM
Has the web changed something about you ?
yes.
Has the web created areas of interest that you never had before ?
no.
Have you seen things on the web that have changed you, and the way you think ?
what i've found on the web leads me to believe that some people are truly disgusting and despicable bastards, seriously.
Have you changed your lifestyle because of it ?
no.
Do you have fetishes that the web brought to life ?
what kind of question is this?
no.
etc etc.
have no idea.
Leo,
“ Originally Posted by jpappl
Has the web changed something about you ? ”
yes.
“ Has the web created areas of interest that you never had before ? ”
no.
So the web changed something about you, how so ? It hasn't created new interests but you have changed in some way.
what i've found on the web leads me to believe that some people are truly disgusting and despicable bastards, seriously.
Yes there are. The good, bad and ugly of it. But they were there before the web as well.
“ Do you have fetishes that the web brought to life ? ”
what kind of question is this?
It's a question. It relates to the idea that you would see something that you found to be intoxicating and that you wanted or needed to see more and more of and that you didn't realize would be so exciting.
It doesn't have to be sexual.
... But they were there before the web as well.
Do you think the internet allows it/them to be more prevalent though?
On another matter, I also find buying things I would feel much more uncomfortable buying in a shop easier online. I travel a lot more now because it's easier to buy and find cheap deals. I found a man I'd quite like to spend a lot of years finding out more about too.
http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/130/regioncaptureh.jpg (http://www.brandeis.edu/pubs/jove/HTML/V6/iculture.html)
so lets see here....
the gain
all hold true to rather piddling degree. (d) is not a consequence
the loss
all not the case except for (b)
in fact, (d) (e) and (f) have been strengthened rather than weakened
(c) is incomprehensible
On another matter, I also find buying things I would feel much more uncomfortable buying in a shop easier online.
amassed quite the collection of toys. eh honey?
i hear pyrex glass is quite the rage
http://www.kittenstoyroom.com/gfx/dildos/lollipop01.jpg
In the gains i wouldn't necessarily agree with (c). I'd agree that (d)(e)and (f) have been stengthened but I think (c) is far too vague to comment. Let's look at what institutions I have had faith in: education, governments, families, economic systems, religions and people or groups that I have social interactions with. Well, that would be no. None of my faith in (if there was any in the first place) those have been shattered. I still beleive in a fundamental goodness of my peers, I perhaps think electronic postmodenity has made me more aware of the views of my peers, but that's not really my faith being shattered, it's that I think the electronic age has brought about it a mask some people hide behind, or use to justify allow aspects of themselves to go unchecked.
cosmictraveler
06-08-09, 08:54 PM
1. Has the web changed something about you ?
Just about everything changes us.
2. Has the web created areas of interest that you never had before ?
it has broadened my understanding of things I've never known.
3. Have you seen things on the web that have changed you, and the way you think ?
Not allot but a few things.
4. Have you changed your lifestyle because of it ?
To a certain extent yes for I never would sit still for very long typing or researching stuff.
5. Do you have fetishes that the web brought to life ?
No, not that I'm aware of.
amassed quite the collection of toys. eh honey?
i hear pyrex glass is quite the rage
I wish I had the money for glass, they're like £300. That one's really beautiful though. It's getting there like. I haven't build a dungeon yet, but my shoe box is quite a little box of toys, yeah.
Norsefire
06-08-09, 09:05 PM
The internet allows all of us a gateway into the massive world before us. Of course, it has exposed me to new things. As for sciforums itself, I've become alot more openminded than before I began on sciforums.
Do you think the internet allows it/them to be more prevalent though?
On another matter, I also find buying things I would feel much more uncomfortable buying in a shop easier online. I travel a lot more now because it's easier to buy and find cheap deals. I found a man I'd quite like to spend a lot of years finding out more about too.
Yes it gives them a window to the world. The guy that flashed someone at the corner could be on here right now. They could be doing all sorts of other things, let you mind imagine what and with us right now.
Thats why it scares the crap out of me for kids. There are definetly some trades offs.
I agree about the purchases. I pretty much only buy my wifes gifts online. I find I can save money, don't have to wait in line and avoid in some cases the embarassment. It's funny, I will walk into a sex shop and buy her/me a pleasuring device/lingerie and have no problem. But I won't walk in JCPenny and buy her clothing. I mean what the hell.
" I found a man I'd quite like to spend a lot of years finding out more about too"
Good Luck, hope it goes well.
Yes it gives them a window to the world. The guy that flashed someone at the corner could be on here right now. They could be doing all sorts of other things, let you mind imagine what and with us right now.
Thats why it scares the crap out of me for kids. There are definetly some trades offs.
Yes, the internet is far too bizarre a place to allow children to explore unaccompanied.
I agree about the purchases. I pretty much only buy my wifes gifts online. I find I can save money, don't have to wait in line and avoid in some cases the embarassment. It's funny, I will walk into a sex shop and buy her/me a pleasuring device/lingerie and have no problem. But I won't walk in JCPenny and buy her clothing. I mean what the hell.
That's probably because shopping for clothes is so mundanely boring ;)
leopold99
06-08-09, 11:54 PM
Leo,
So the web changed something about you, how so ?
that people are truly the same everywhere.
if it wasn't for culture and language a japnese would feel right at home in iceland for example.
It hasn't created new interests but you have changed in some way.
my interests have always been the same.
It's a question. It relates to the idea that you would see something that you found to be intoxicating and that you wanted or needed to see more and more of and that you didn't realize would be so exciting.
there are only two things i have found to be intoxicating, booze and women.
Has the web changed something about you ?
Has the web created areas of interest that you never had before ?
Have you seen things on the web that have changed you, and the way you think ?
Have you changed your lifestyle because of it ?
Do you have fetishes that the web brought to life ?
etc etc.
I was five years old when Apple formed; I was 10 years old and had my first computer- an Apple IIe which I knew how to strip down into a pile of parts.
I grew up at the very end of the world without computers- the last of a generation for history to record... "the cave man-turned computer-man". The world around me has changed A LOT since I was a kid. I grew up in a world without food or drug safety seals- think about that.
1996 and the opening of the Internet was an historical day- incredible amounts of irrelevant information was now at my fingertips; The Internet was born.
I grew up during "Computer Inflation"- where the number of users expanded exponentially and the raw possibilities for the Internet was infinite.
We are nearing the end of Inflation and about to settle down within the next several years to define the Internet as a tool- the ultimate tool.
The Internet is evolving at an exponential rate and within the next 25 years will become an all-in-one, everything tool that does everything- an IPhone times a thousand.... the sum of human knowledge in your pocket. Think about that- a device that does everything.
I am often drawn to the film "Minority Report" because in one generation, the world will become a virtual living thing unlike what we live today. Gone are the trips into the forest to get lost- today we're all GPS-navigated.
You're asking what the web changed about me?
Forget me- how has the web changed human civilization!
Can we get back to topic, please
I was not believing in any Gods, now I believe we humans can be more inventive and interesting than anything in the universe... And even without knowing the rest of the universe.
chris4355
06-09-09, 12:21 AM
Here is a minor list...how the internet has changed me:
-Made me dislike religion
-Informed me about the world
-Helped me keep in touch with friends
-Gave me an additional source of information
-Helped me meet new friends
-Porn
-Gave me a lot of life advice
-Has made me more of a capitalist
-Made me better at drums and guitar
-Helped me waste my time
-Helped me spend time on forums
-Allowed me to go out of character and play devils advocate
-I have read really good books, and amazing music that I would probably not have heard of unless there was internet
Here is a minor list...how the internet has changed me:
-Made me dislike religion
-Informed me about the world
-Helped me keep in touch with friends
-Gave me an additional source of information
-Helped me meet new friends
-Porn
-Gave me a lot of life advice
-Has made me more of a capitalist
-Made me better at drums and guitar
-Helped me waste my time
-Helped me spend time on forums
-Allowed me to go out of character and play devils advocate
-I have read really good books, and amazing music that I would probably not have heard of unless there was internet
Mine would be very much the same except I don't play the drums and I already disliked religion.
chris4355
06-09-09, 12:53 AM
Mine would be very much the same except I don't play the drums and I already disliked religion.
I seriously think I would be a VERY different person without the internet.
Much more influenced by public opinion and TV. The internet really opened my mind.
One would have to be made of stone to be on the web for any period of time and not be influenced by it in one way or another.
sciforums has gotten me laid heaps of times, does that count? i think its improved my arguing skills, and shown me a lot of different opinions. exposure to anything i wouldn't see just within australia has been great too.
Since when do arguing skills get you laid ?
Yes, it changes in some ways.
Norsefire
06-14-09, 10:23 PM
Since when do arguing skills get you laid ?
Haha that made me laugh!
*codanblad* so that's my opinion
*other* no you're wrong, I disagree due to this
*codanblad* blah blah
*other*.....well....I mean...that's uh *loosens up* that's a good supporting sentence but... uh
*codanblad* I *sweating* I know, and your refutation uh....
*jump on each other*
Challenger78
06-15-09, 09:30 AM
Has the web changed something about you ?
Has the web created areas of interest that you never had before ?
Have you seen things on the web that have changed you, and the way you think ?
Have you changed your lifestyle because of it ?
Do you have fetishes that the web brought to life ?
etc etc.
*Hamlet hat*
Sciforums had made me realise, that the whole world is a prison, and people do regard themselves as a king of infinite space whilst in a nutshell on the internet.
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