Has the Internet changed you?

MojoRison

Well-Known Member
100% has. Maybe bad. Less empathetic.

I could watch a guy get raped by a horse while stepping on a puppies head whos getting bukkaked on as hes dieing and yawn...how does that not change someone? My father before we stopped talking was a homicide DT and id show him stuff that make him cringe at times...so ya...

But its like a accident...how do you look away? Except the pupypy vid..it was a vid of a woman stepping on a puppies head slowly...i couldnt watch it whole. And i think i took a few extra xqnax after.

I litereraly saw a video the other day of a UK reporter getting raped in Libyia...and I didnt even look hard it was sebt to me. Its a odd place the web.
I see your point but having the ability to stomach the worst that man has to offer and still carry on doesn't mean you're less emphatic, I would say more jaded, sure the shock value isn't there that's why you go to sites like that trying to find something visceral enough to illicit a response. Try this {if you haven't yet} ask to sit in on a autopsy, you just might find that the means in which you view the "carnage" changes your feelings towards it.

It's one thing to see someone die via video but to be there and have the sense of loss, the sounds, smells and the truth hits you harder then anything did before...at least it did me.
 

KingJeff

Member
I see your point but having the ability to stomach the worst that man has to offer and still carry on doesn't mean you're less emphatic, I would say more jaded, sure the shock value isn't there that's why you go to sites like that trying to find something visceral enough to illicit a response. Try this {if you haven't yet} ask to sit in on a autopsy, you just might find that the means in which you view the "carnage" changes your feelings towards it.

It's one thing to see someone die via video but to be there and have the sense of loss, the sounds, smells and the truth hits you harder then anything did before...at least it did me.
You have a point. Maybe jaded is the better word. But it's deffly still a change. I in no way am saying that the internet is where I seen the worst, I seen death in person (not an autopsy and frankly I rather not go into detail, lets just say my father was a Homicide Detective and lets say one weekend he had to make a detour to a scene before bringing me home, and I didn't listen to my father and wait in the car lol) but the internet offers some odd shit at the tap of key strokes.

It's no doubt the internet has changed the world in general, but from person to person we are changed. For example...I talk to a wonderful woman in Europe. Beautiful woman...I didnt evne think she was real until after about 2 months of video, phone, letters and etc. Now without the web I wouldve never meet her. Infact my last two exs I meet through facebook (in america, and were actually seeing face to face lol. This womans more of a friend with possible benefits if I ever get to do my vacation)

But I know I still have humanity left in me. And empathy. But yes, i guess jaded would be the better word!
 

MojoRison

Well-Known Member
Truth and fact are a duo whom many shy away from due to their dark nature, their mirrored images and yet it is those very images that stir the abyss, bringing forth the things that go bump in the night.
 

april

Pickle Queen
This site and a few members I need not mention gave me the courage to make hard decisions that ultimately lead me to my dream job and luv of my life. Plus my journey here was pretty damn awesome!! I was recently told how his choice to help me saved his own ass . Being by my side stopped him from being in a really bad place when shit hit the fan. Everything in life happens for a reason,trust and learn from it.

Thank u!
 

curious2garden

Well-Known Mod
Staff member
Truth and fact are a duo whom many shy away from due to their dark nature, their mirrored images and yet it is those very images that stir the abyss, bringing forth the things that go bump in the night.
Yup, but realization of the truth often doesn't give impetus for the change necessary. Oh these tricky cortexes of ours! Instead of engaging in denial and avoidance we need to act more and think just a little less :) it's an awful balance.

Now let me look for more things to post about before I have to go clean the bird cages! Chop wood, carry water, sleep peacefully....
 

thump easy

Well-Known Member
heck ya it changed me im a fucken internect junkie!!!! i need intervention!!!!!! i cant get my gardening done cuz im on hear!!!
 

Unclebaldrick

Well-Known Member
My first foray into Youtube was a bit of a shock. Prior to RIU and Youtube my Net experience was limited to a forum that, in retrospect, didn't prepare me for this brave new world.
My first experiences online were back in the Compuserve days so most of the people I interacted with we're fairly early adopters. They were a fairly tech savvy group. Stayed offline regarding social interaction until about two years ago when I stuck my toe into FB. This was right about the time that everybody started to use it. So there were a whole lot of people that I had not seen in years who were looking to reconnect. We were adding each other as friends, going to informal reunions, that sort of thing.

But after a while, you start to realize why you lost touch with these people in the first place.

So from time to time I would log on FB and read my "feed". For the most part, it was banal but there was just so much hat I found openly offensive. One guy in particular (a-hole beat me in an election by a tiny number of votes (thankfully, it turned out)), became by bête noir. Fascist, homophobic, tea-bagging, racist prick, he was. He would post about 30 times a day, each one more offensive than the ones before. For the most part, he was just parroting to teabag line - but even the parts that were super rapey.

And here's what pissed me off, of the thirty or so of us that were all 'friended in' from those days, nobody was shooting this bastard down. So I started to. Using logic at first, but there's only so much logic you can apply to certain things. For example, when the teabaggers start leaking non-existent 'quotes' overheard by anonymous sources, you're pretty much left without an arguement of "that which is freely asserted is freely denied" (the RIU version is 'pictures or it never happened').

Oh what a flame war it was. All through the election it continued. My wife urged me to just de-friend the bastard but I don't play that way. Eventually, I forced him to do it. After I did, I realized that he was the only reason I even checked my damn feed. After that I was left with things that did not interest me one bit. Jill and her husband went to the club. Monica and Jim are at a restaurant.

The fault was really my own. I never should have friended half these people. Should have left it with just family and friends (though some family members were leaving Posts like "Obama is a lousy nigger" on election night).

Not responding directly to your question here, but the web showed me how much I have changed relative to those I knew years go. I think a lot of it had to do with my subsequent education, both in and out of school.

And am I a different person online? No, I'm one of those people incapable of being anybody other than me. I am irrepressible and without that type of guile.

Now days I rely on my wife to keep me aware of the doings of our actual friends. I don't log on anymore.

But I dig you guys.
 
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