What is The Internet Doing To Us?
By Nickolas Weingartner on 07/24/2009
Category: Access What was once heralded as a technological wonder - a wealth of information never before seen since the dawn of human history, a place where communication is instant and where economy has no borders - is slowly collapsing and turning into a post-apocalyptic wasteland where language dies and human desire roams free.
It's notoriously hard to accrue actual statistics on the matter, but it is estimated that the Porn Industry is worth around $13 billion. They may even ask for some federal bailout money. Some say that 90% of Americans actively watch porn.
In fact, the Porn industry was the deciding factor in the BluRay vs. HD-DVD case. An entire new generation of technology was decided by porn-fiends.
These statistics don't even apply to Internet porn, which is mostly free and easier to access then ever before. What was once a dirty reel of film has become an easily searchable .WMP file. Estimates are gigantic and most seem to think that porn gets more traffic than any other type of website (minus search engines, which it could be used for), and trumps almost every other Internet industry.
For all of the uses of the Internet, we use it for Porn.
This is only in addition to the fact that we are dumbing down our language to never before seen lows.
AIM probably had something to do with it, but social networking sites like Facebook and Myspace couldn't of helped. "Words" like 'LoL', 'LMAO', 'BTW', and so on (they are infinite). They plague our typing and are seeping into our veins and infecting our spoken language. How many times have you heard someone actually say 'LoL' or 'BTW' when you're talking to them? Probably more than you like, not to mention that the younger your conversation companion gets the more often they pop up.
Now I'm fully aware that I'm being hypocritical. I am currently typing on my laptop, and will soon be editing and posting this man-child of an article into the grown-up world of blogging, which is an internet invention that is supported solely by internet users, most of which watch porn and say 'Lol'; and I'd be lying if I said I didn't do the same. The question is this: Should I be happy about it?
However expected, I feel in an immediate pull to chalk it all up to Human Nature. I mean, just look at it. Since the beginning of time we've been taking everything we designed to be a blessing and abusing the hell of out it, until we wish it never existed. We took sticks and sharpened them into arrows, took airplanes and made them into war machines, and made science into biological weapons and bombs. What was stopping us from taking the Internet by neck and strangling the very life out of the bastard? If it's not already happening now, it will soon, and soon we'll all just be sitting around speaking in abbreviated tongues and humping ourselves dry.
Additional Photos: ["Smashed Computer", www.creepingweeds.com, "Art Sex", www.urbantulsa.com]
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