A lot more cool headed
Were you a better person? A worse person? More naive? Has it had any effect on your personality or outlook? Has it improved or worsened your mental state overall?
Discuss.
Yes. I'm definitely more jaded, now.
Not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing.
I think we need some elderly people in here.
lol
:P
Were you a better person? A worse person? More naive? Has it had any effect on your personality or outlook? Has it improved or worsened your mental state overall?
Discuss.
My first computer was a Commodore Vic 20 that a friend of my mom's gave us.
It wasn't good for much lol
I mostly used it to play Cosmic Cruncher (discount Pacman.)
It broke down in less than 2 years.
I used school computers for research projects in middle school and hs, but the internet wasn't rlly a thing, yet, and we still didn't have a computer at home.
I did the things kids did before video games sucked out their minds and all their potential. I swam, played baseball, tried out for school plays, took voice lessons, went to modelling school. I didn't have a lot of friends bc I've always been a natural introvert, but my life was good enough without the internet.
I didn't even know what the internet was until about 1995. I was visiting friends in Scarborough (east Toronto) for the weekend, so ended up in my first chat room, talking to some American guy.
And that's it. I've never used the internet to socialize, and did not even have a fb account until 2014.
There did come a point where research became a bizarre way of internet socializing without putting any of my real self out there, tho. I'd say that was around 2009, 2010, 2011 when I was in uni.
Frankly, I was appalled by some of the characters I met online. I specifically chose blogs and forums with academic sounding titles, but there was still a troll or several on every forum. That shit doesn't happen in in person group meetings (public health, drama club, or what have you.) I was annoyed that ppl who likely had decent manners in person turned into such douchebags when they got online.
The second big change from The Time Before, when analog culture ruled, to this brave new digital world was the rise of the alt right. The very notion is like some Bizarro universe to me. The right is not counter culture, and those clowns have their red and blue political symbolism bassackwards. Blue is the establishment, a cop's uniform, the patriarchy and a monarch's robes. Red is the colour of revolution and Marxism. Conservative revolutionary is an oxymoron. So that turned me off to online socializing even more.
The third huge disappointment is in the journalism field. There is no accountability anymore. More than half of what ppl call news nowadays is complete and total garbage. I used to be able to turn on my tv and know that the news teams I was watching were at least 90% honest and reliable, and at least 75% accurate to the best of their ability. Those days are gone and will likely never return.
I was definitely more naive back then.
The internet confirmed everything I'd always known about how shitty ppl are, but didn't want to believe.
I may be a little more angry and less forgiving when some asshole wastes my time.
But holy wow the things we can do and learn and create when we ignore the ppl on the internet, and just focus on the music and vids and the factoids :D :D I used to have to walk to the library for days and surround myself with ginormous piles of books to teach myself the things I can find online in one afternoon, now. SO much more convenient, despite my frequent disappointment in my fellow humans.