In today’s society the internet can either make you or break you. If you are in a relationship, married, or in love I am warring you please stay away from the net. Every since social networks hit the scene seems like the divorce rate is increasing. Social networks and access to porn is ruining interpersonal relationships and even the minds of children because it’s so easy to find these certain websites and get addictive. I think this is anyones' greatest fear losing a relationship they worked so hard for. To my surprise the Pew Internet Project feels it’s a “networked individualism,” so now it’s no long communicating within the household everyone is individual and is communicating in their own way. Rather it’s by cell phone, desktop, laptop, or iPads there is a way for everyone to talk to someone they want through a social network or an email. I called this “Secret Communication.” This is when you have people among you to interact with face-to-face but you rather socialize with someone on the internet. “Our work show that internet use provides online Americans a path to resource, such as access to people who may have the right information to help deal with health, medical or financial issue” (Boase 2). Seriously whatever happened to calling 411 or the phonebooks? Don’t get me wrong the internet is a very helpful source but sometimes they are scams on these resource websites.
Friday, February 18, 2011
Please Step Away from the NET.......I Repeat
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I agree! Alot of marriages break up become of the continue use of the internet. I understand that a person get on the internet for sources or research, that will take hours. But, to mess up your home due to long periods of time on the net, is crazY!
ReplyDeleteUmmm, I don't know. In my post I referenced a friend of mine who got divorced because his wife spent too much time in the chat rooms, and although it was a contributing factor to the divorce, it wasn't the only contributing factor. To say that "Every since social networks hit the scene seems like the divorce rate is increasing. Social networks and access to porn is ruining interpersonal relationships..." is a little misleading. If social networks and porn lead to a break down in a relationship, it's a relationship that maybe shouldn't have been established in the first place. Regardless of the extent of the social network or porn involvement, if the relation breaks down because of it, someone has issues that the other wasn't aware of and just needs to find someone else or help their partner get counseling.
ReplyDeleteI think a lot of the problem isn't with the internet's ability to answer our questions in a quick manner. Finding directions to a city, looking up an old friend or buying a pair of loafers isn't really the enemy. I think the concern is community and language. Will the future generations be able to use a library? Will they be able to look at someone in the eye and tell them something that is difficult to say? These types of things are the concern, in my opinion. Text and wikapedia and sites that are misleading...all of these things makes us as culture have to take a second look at what it is that we are really up against in the future.
ReplyDeleteI'm pretty sure there is no actual evidence that the divorce rate has spiked due to the internet. The divorce rate has been rising since the 70s at least, mostly because changing laws made divorce easier.
ReplyDeleteOne thing I think is really important to take away from this study is that internet use almost always makes us communicate MORE, not less, and often with more people.
The ideas about the divorce and porn ruining relationships and such come from Law & Order, not actual real data. TV likes to take individual incidents and make them look like trends.
And really, I can find a lot more information more quickly online than in a phone book--and the phone book is online.
But none of this is to say that the internet can't be harmful--but I think Dan makes a good point--if a person has problems with controlling his/her internet use, it's probably a symptom of something that already existed, and it made worse perhaps by the internet, rather than a problem that is *caused* by the internet. Some people do have problems, for sure.
I know personally, I communicate more...because of the internet, basically email. I know that the media refernces the internet as one the causes for divorce rate, but the media will say just about anything for attention.
ReplyDeleteThis is actually a fear in some married couples, but again with the other argument- it is not the only factor resulting in divorce. I can't help but to point out the video with Baym where she stated "The blackberry didn't make you do it".
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