Is the Intenret a good or bad thing for humanity?

Is the Intenret a good or bad thing for humanity?

sounds nice how long can I use

bad.

pretty much the Babelfish from Hitchhikers guide.

maybe if we went back to DOS based computers that actually require a bit of brainpower and memorization to use it would get better. but since any fucking retard that can click a shiny picture on their hand brain, i mean cell phone, can use it, the bar's been lowered farther than even Randy Newman could have hoped to get it...

Yeah, the internet has been nothing but pure evolving shit ever since the 90s.

Nothing is just one thing: everything is multi-faceted. The internet is both good and bad, and is good as a whole in light of its potential for good.

When questions like these come to my mind, I ask myself: Can I use it to fap?
I afirmative -> Good.

bad

bad
literally everything is worse now except commerce, which is vastly improved, albeit to the pain and suffering of brick and mortar mom and pop stores
there have been no other real benefits

Bad, just look at Sup Forums

well, it largely benefits humanity as a whole, has had tremendous insight to this planet and its beings even if there are also a lot of aspects which have a negative impact on it and us....overall if it hadnt existed we would be in far worse place than we are now.

My concern is the fact that the internet has created the online disinhibition effect. The generation coming up today that was born and bred with a keyboard and a dozen usernames to hide behind has been taught that there are no consequences for your actions, because there are no consequences when you are online and hiding behind anonymity. The problem with this idea is that the idea eventually gets taken out into "real life." When "anonkek4thelulzskankhunt42" forgets that anonymity doesn't exist in real life and tries the same shit in real life that they do online, they end up in a ditch with their throat slit, or in jail, kekking all the way to their grave. Internet anonymity has bred a generation of cowardly, feminine, children.

Bad, but the world will go down laughing

Street lights run on the internet
Credit cards run on the internet
Yeah we need the internet whether we like it or not

>we would be in far worse place than we are now
wrong

Is a knife a good thing or a bad thing for humanity? Neither, rather it's a tool, not inherently bad or good. What is bad or good is hows its used.
This applies to the internet as well.

What is a weak analogy?
We know how it is used. The question is, how do we evaluate how it is used?

No the question op asked is
>Is the Intenret a good or bad thing for humanity?
Not how is the Internet used good and badly, like you so seems to think(or lack of thinking either is fine)

The correct answer to OP question "it's a tool, not it's inherently bad or good"

If the internet went down globally today, there'd be billions of suicidally depressed first world women out roaming the streets. Theyd lose their instant validation and emotional support, they already traded their irl friendships and human interactions with the Like button. These people dont know their own friends much less their nextdoor neibor. It'd rip their shallow existences apart.

Is humanity rather a bad thing for the internet? The internet is a proper technical evolution but the internet you see now is a reflection of human society through the looking glass.

It's good for us who code.
The rest, just eat up the shit served.

Internet was a force for good pre 90's.

Ever since normal people could use it, it has been shit.

Porn has literally ruined thousands, if not millions, of lives.

It has allowed the spread of idiots, and has ruined a whole generation of people.

It's degenerate beyond belief, basically.

We'll never get rid of it at this point.