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| Sylrinia | Mar 17 2011, 04:36 AM Post #1 |
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I started thinking about how the internet works, and how it acts as a community, and I started putting together this. It's not finished, and I'll just keep adding, but yeah... Now, I'm nobody with a master's degree in psychology, but I've noticed how absolutely large the reaction to the Japan earthquake and tsunami was. I've seen videos on youtube for regular users promoting charities, sending prayers, and spreading hope. I've seen game publishers come up with a plethora of ways to get people to buy their products and a fraction of the profit goes to charity funds. Many other similar cases are spreading throughout the internet, and it's not the first time. This happened when the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004 decimated many countries or Hurricane Katrina that hit in New Orleans in 2005. This same thing happened with Haiti. It's not new, but it still perplexes me. In this world, we, as human beings, communicate mainly by internet. It's the fastest, most convenient way to get large amounts of information and data around. But the internet is usually never considered as a community. But when something major like this happens, you see people express their worries, their assurance, their hope, and their ways to help mainly over the internet. People from all over the world are helping Japan to get back up and running, and ninety-five percent of the progress is either online or began online. It amazes me how people that have never so much as heard each other's voices or seen each other can become a large, organized group in quite literally minutes. A fan group for the newest, hottest band, or a chariy organization run over the internet, or the community of an online game. The world is now in the age where technology is the present and future. People say that what you do on the internet is not in the real world. To them, I'd say, “I've met people that are now some of my best friends and I've seen charities blossom over night. All of which were on the internet. To me, real isn't the correct word. I'd use the word 'physical'. The internet isn't something that's physically there.You aren't talking to someone right next to you, you're talking to someone a few states away, or across the world. But it is real, and what happens on the internet has a real effect on what goes on in our lives. |
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| Ricther | Mar 18 2011, 08:59 PM Post #2 |
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a life without internet.. thats a tough one.. we have to understand that atm the internet is a wild west.. no rules... any one can post and load/download anything from it... we should be careful and try our best to keep an eye out. from treats and stuff like that. the only and most powerful enemy we have atm is ourself. |
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