Did the Internet actually ruin the way we interact with each other as a society ?

Did the Internet actually ruin the way we interact with each other as a society ?
It seems like back in the late 90's and early 00's people had happier and more active lifes - and not only because of muh stable economy. Something has changed.
Just go downtown on a saturday afternoon and you'll basically swim in an ocean of zombies all glued to their smartphones, and I'm not talking about teenagers only. For fuck sake I'm 27 and half my friends are already addicted to Pokemon Go it's almost unbelievable
People don't hang out that much anymore, and when they do they spend half that time on a screen. They spend most of their free time at home on a screen.
I'm not sure the Internet is the reason why everything went to shit but if ever that's the case : how the fuck do we change this shit ?

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Yes. Its common sense that technology corrupts

The niggers stayed in niggland at that time

>technology corrupts
Printing Revolution didn't corrupt the fucking world

It actually did because it gave plebs access to more info and made them self entitled

It only made info more accessible, which is actually a good thing.
Internet isn't even that much about "making stuff more accessible", cause we all know most people use it only for facebook, porn and streaming movies

I'm not even saying the printing revolution was necessarily bad. I'm just saying it corrupted the previous order that existed. Technology corrupts order and forces things to change

I think the worst thing the internet has done is porn. The massive impact of on demand pornography is literally fucking up generation after generation. It's getting more violent, more fucked up and its so easy to access. The degeneracy is incredible.

>it's a 2:30am at a 7-11 near the Berenstein misaligned QPU episode

>he thinks the last 300 years weren't a mistake

I bet you think women should have a right to vote too, hahahaha.

I've never owned a smartphone and have no plans to change. Expensive, distracting. Normies need 24/7 distraction and validation.

Everyone is an exhibitionist now.
They're all so fucking focused on making sure other people view their lives as being fucking amazing, they're desperate for approval etc.

Facebook is dying but it's being replaced by worse, more privacy invading shit. losing hope desu.

A button press is a button press

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the internet made it easy to share contrary opinions, not much else

but that has been huge. back in the day all of us on pol could have lived in the same town and never spoken of killing the establishment

Not just the internet, but technology in general. The main problem is that technological advancements have made it so easy to survive. It being easy to survive might sound like a good thing, but it isn't. Most of us naturally want survival to be a challenge and to compete for resources. The current situation is only good for unintelligent unambitious zombie like people. It might seem counter-intuitive, but intelligence is of less use today than it was during our species' hunter gatherer days. Intelligence isn't very important if all you need to do to survive is go to the supermarket when you're hungry, the tap when you're thirsty. Also, if you live an unintelligent lifestyle (doing risky things, eating unhealthily), you can usually get fixed up because medicine has advanced so much.

Also, because it's so easy to get food/resources, men lose value, which is one of the main reasons feminism is so prevalent.

>I've never owned a smartphone
You and me are an endangered species.

Yes, classical liberalism was what triggered the demise of society. A philosophy that removes all social barriers assumes that everyone is equal, which is never true unless you live in a fantasy land

>(((printing press)))
>not corrupt

Fucking french nigger.

Mec, ils sont tres utiles si t'as de l'auto-discipline

I own a smart phone and wonder why the fuck is everyone else glued to them.

>Expensive, distracting
Distracting you from what? It's not that you need to be distracted. I own smartphone and it's very helpful, but i don't use any social media, so i have nothing much to do on my phone, but things i only need.

No.

Everyone was unhappy as fuck anyway. You just couldn't see.

I agree with you user. I've brought this point up to my friends many times but most people seem to think that the benefits outweigh the costs - I don't share that pov

Not for much longer I think. As time goes on the platform of a tablet phone becomes increasingly irrelevant. In ten years time you'll need no phone at all. Implants are going to be mandatory though.

im, facebook, snapchat, instagram, twitter, thats pretty much about it. Take this from their phones and they will use it as music player.

This.

I got one a couple years ago. It is nice to be able to have a map of any city I go to and be able to find the quickest route to somewhere almost instantly. Other than that, I mostly just use it to text and call. I do miss home phones, and I don't like carrying my phone with me so I normally leave it at home if I'm not traveling.

Honestly this is why the Amish reject a lot technology, its not a religious belief as so much its a cultural belief.
>Phones
The allow people to communicate without being in person so why would you come to visit your neighbor when you can just call them?
>Cars
This allows to live great distances away from your community.

Sometimes I think the amish have it right.

>look at me LOOK AT ME! I DON'T OWN A SMARTPHONE I'M SPECIAL S P E C I A L I DON'T OWN A SMARTPHONE I don't understand people who use them what do they need their smartphones for dumb shits I'M SPECIAL

Yeah, we were all depressive and suicidal, Einstein.

I can't wait to see hordes of blank-eyed drones in the street.

You can see the difference in their 2014 visit:
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There's no orange flavor anymore.

>He fell for the Nofap meme

wew

>You just couldn't see

As I said I'm 27, I can perfectly remember how shit was when I was 13

they do have it right.
Do you see their smiles?
They are happy, and they have no clue how fucked the outside world is.
They are doing their thing, and are more than content with it, they genuinely enjoy it.
They have no leeches like we do, blacks and mexicans wouldn't even live in an amish town.
The world will end, and they wont know it for another 6 months when they go into town to sell shit for nothing more than lulz.

Kucked Jewed Version of the bible only made possible from the printing press.

>holy shit people are COMMUNICATING WITH EACH OTHER with the INTERNET
>well that's it guys the world is corrupt
france pls
you don't like this world? no one's chaining you to it

They're not happy though. People who used to live in Amish communities say how fucked up it is.

yea theres some fucked up shit, but its no different than the fucked up stuff on the outside.
amish drag children behind buggys..
english boil their children alive..

>which is actually a good thing
Prove it

you're original

Ffs retard learn2read
I'm not the one claiming that technology corrupts

one benefit of the internet is connectedness. imagine a lonely person in the 70s who had no friends, lived alone, etc. when he got home from work, he literally just sat in a quiet house and maybe put the tv or radio on, but couldn't get online and talk to people or post on forums and get a sense of interaction and participation. when i imagine it, even though i was a kid before everyone had personal computers, it sounds really desperate and excruciatingly lonely for the types of people without a strong social circle to rely on. sometimes even with the internet i'll feel lonely late at night but it helps to kind of check up on what other people are doing in the world to realize i'm not missing all that much anyway, and then i can relax again doing what i do alone.

>english boil their children alive..

not sure what that reaction is supose to be, but the amish call non-amish americans "the english". (yes, they are that far behind)

I was mostly referencing a case where a fat fuck step mother would threw the step son in boil hot water and force him to stay in there until his skin was peeling off..
>but since it was a boy the media didnt give a shit
iirc he was kill

>who had no friends, lived alone, etc. when he got home from work, he literally just sat in a quiet house and maybe put the tv or radio on, but couldn't get online and talk to people or post on forums and get a sense of interaction and participation

I know I might get some of you upset for saying this but it didn't happen as much as today literally because Internet didn't exist imo.
Just take a look at how many high-schoolers are friendless nowadays, spend their free time masturbating and browsing /r9k/ and shit
Surely 12 years ago there were already "robots" and strange people - fuck I was one of them, but we actually had to hang out together amongst other robots in order to not get bored and stuff like this.
And remember I'm talking about times when Internet was already a thing - not as big as today, almost no social networks, streaming was total shit and all but we already had a small Internet thing and yet we prefered to spend time outside and do things.
Nowadays Internet is so big and perfect you literally don't need to anymore, hence why there are more and more lonely people with no friends doing nothing but binge-browsing all day long

Oh, I thought you meant English as in actual English. Sorry.

also,
>not sure what that reaction is supose to be
There are websites that can help you with reading facial expressions.

yea, didn't think about that until after I posted.

I was more thrown off by it looking like a "lol yea, we sorta do that" expression, but after I realized I was talking to a bong I expected a "no we dont" reaction

>KJV is cucked

Retard