What has (and hasn't) the Internet killed?

Interesting article on msn:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36741144/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets?Gt1=43001

What do you all think? Agree? I pretty much agree with it all. Especially the reality "stars" out there. :roll:

 

The Net has killed real-life interaction for starters. Not to go into much detail but I've seen the changes.

Music is completely dead due to the Internet. Again I've seen it happen. In order to make your music actually worth something you have to spend three times as much as it costs to make a physical product on a PUBLICIST to promote your work or else your shit is just free-floating particles on the web.

Any old fat chick can now be a "model" thanks to Myspace.

Myspace has also given us the "Duckface" (Russia I'm talking to you...LMAO)

 

The internet has killed going to the movies and watching tv.

 

very much true. it has hampered that alot

 

haaaa hahaha!! :smt010 (cryin laffin) true dat, double true!

 

Agreed. Though I'm not into the music scene, I can see it, thanks to your explanation.

Yes, it has hampered peoples' face-to-face interactions and brought out the rudeness in most people when interacting with people online.

I love how everyone can consider themselves a "journalist" because they have a blog.

Yes, agreed. It's sad to see the movie going experience changing and not in a good way because of the internet.

LMAO! I hate that "smile".

I'll also add that proofreading has completely gone by the wayside thanks to the internet. I'll be reading news articles online and there are unbelievable typos and stuff. They're so worried about hitting publish to get it out there first that they don't care about the easily fixed mistakes in the articles. I don't know. Maybe it bothers only me. :smt042

 

Oh no Bookie, that's something I also notice. I'm not saying I don't make errors when I type, but I do try to proofread diligently. But it's not just online, I get letters from people that just blow my mind. I'm always tempted to correct them in red ink and mail them back... but that'd just be mean.

Not for me. I spend @ 12 - 14 hours a day online working, so I actually refuse to watch anything online. Why would I want to watch something on a 17" screen, when I can watch it on a 52" screen, or larger? I don't watch a lot of TV, mostly I have about 7 shows on the DVR and I play catch up on the weekends, or when I've got stuff exporting or uploading.

I think it's probably because I do work online that I don't want to spend a lot of my free time online. But I think that's true for a lot of people. You know kinda like how mechanics cars are the last to get fixed, or the landscapers yards are the last to get mowed, after you do that all day at work the last thing you want to do is go home and do more work.

 

i gotta agree with you on this one. i think the proofreading skill has just started to fade all around. i see it in written exchanges all of the time. legal documents, forms, letters. and not just spelling errors, like MAJOR grammatical ones. i'm like "whoa! no child left behind... well that sure didn't work now did it?" wakka wakka...

 

i'm 2-for-2 with espy on this one... i can't get into the online viewing thing either. tv is still tv to me. quick videos and snippets, sure. but if i want to kick back and watch a movie, i'mma burn up some real electricity with the big screen piece. sheeit, they still hustle those download bootlegs on dvd. hahaha!! :smt069

 

Me too!! I love watching movies and TV on my TV. I only watch Lost online because it's on during the time I put my daughter to bed and I don't have DVR. :smt076

I also don't have an XBOX or PS3 or anything like that to stream movies from my computer to my TV. Plus, I don't want that stuff taking up space on my PC.

I'm old-fashioned that way, I guess. :smt081

 

My brother had a nice position for what was the biggest record store on the West and that all went downhill cause of that. Luckily, one of his vendors he worked with while at the company, hired him and he transitioned into a position doing something totally different.

 

On the first day of airing, MTV played the video killed the radio star.

I am still waiting for someone to come up with "the internet killed mtv".
People keep asking why doesn't mtv play music any more because you can play all their songs as many times as you want on youtube without commercials. That killed their viewer ratings.

 

I've only just seen this thread.
Really? I don't think I do that. I just don't do full on grin in photos because my eyes get really squinty and disappear into my face. Quite embarrassed now Won't be posting pictures anytime soon lol.

One thing that the internet has killed is written correspondance, which is awful, in my opinion. I love writing/receiving letters but now everything is done over e-mail.

 

Way to go, karmacoma. Look what you just did.

 

Well, video didn't kill the radio star. Radio and MTV were both huge at the same time. I would also argue that MTV stopped playing videos (on a regular basis) long before youtube was even a website. MTV killed itself when they dropped "Music" from their name and decided shows like "The Real World" were better than playing videos.

I understand what you're saying. Just practice taking pictures with a digital camera or your cell phone. If you have squinty eyes when you smile, then right before the person takes the picture, open your eyes wide. Then your eyes will look normal in the picture. It takes a little getting used to and it takes some practice to perfect it so it doesn't look like you're surprised in your pics. :smt023

But we'd much rather see your pretty face in pictures than not! So, don't stop posting pics.

 

I'm really self conscious about my smile. I just prefer to avoid smiling in the photos, it takes me about ten goes to get a photo that I think is okay. I hate taking pictures and believe it or not, am really shy about posting them anyway.
My 'duckface' smile is just how I smile without teeth, I really don't try to pout at the camera.

 

Not forgetting Ye Olde Postal Services and the letter writng thereof...(That's as in "Snail Mail")
























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I don't think the internet's killed anything. It's sped up the natural progression of the market, and undermined a number of monopolies that had strangleholds on their respective industries. Those that couldn't handle competition failed, which is how the market is actually supposed to work.

For example: newspapers. Those that began in the 90's to rely more heavily on shared information and wire service retreads are now failing when forced to compete with newsblogs that post more actual news faster, cheaper, and with meatier details.

Those same papers would have you believe they were destroyed because the blogs are free. But they aren't free. They charge for advertising just like paper. Neither newspapers nor magazines are supported by their sales price -- their bills get paid by advertising. Just like blogs. If the papers were scooping the blogs, if they got the news faster or more reliably, people would rely on them.

It's not the publication schedule, either. In my Mom's day, there were like 5 daily newspapers in Chicago, and they printed several times a day. Now there are two, and a quick content analysis shows they have nearly identical content.

Those papers that are working with the transition, placing quality content online and leveraging their ad space appropriately will go on, either in tangible form or on the web.

Those that cling to the press release rewrite, the wire service retread, and the 5-minute telephone interview, will die. They deserve to die. Just like the corrupt payola addicted music industry, sometimes the tumors need cutting even if it hurts.

 

I believed the internet has destroyed the decorum that people should carry at all times but when they get on the internet it is totally gone.

especially when it comes to politics.