5 Internet’s Negative Impacts In Our Lives

Written by inAm from http://www.temptingmagazine.com on April 28th, 2010 | 1 Comment

Internet has been around for almost two decades now im myself not against internet at all, to me its something that brought people closer and now everything and anything around the world is just few keys away.

But for many people its a killer application. From newspapers to social interactions internet has caused damage to almost every aspect of life. Here are five things that internet is making virtually extinct.

1) Trust in Encyclopedias

Back in days, if something was in the Encyclopedia Britannica (or even Grolier’s), it was true. Now — thanks to Wikipedia — having “encyclopedic knowledge” of a topic isn’t as impressive when there’s a good chance most of what you think you know was concocted by a 12-year-old.

After a 2005 study by the British journal Nature showed Britannica and Wikipedia to be equally inaccurate, faith in all encyclopedias plummeted. Britannica attacked that study’s methodology as ”fatally flawed,” but it was too late.

2) Arguments & IQ

It used to be you could kill many hours and even more brain cells drinking beer and arguing over arcane trivia. Who was a more fearsome slugger, Babe Ruth or Hank Aaron? Who’d win a one-on-one match between Kobe Bryant and Doctor J? (Sorry Kobe–we love ya man, but in 1972 the Doc was unstoppable.) Now whenever there’s a question of fact, somebody just whips out a smartphone and does a search on Google or dials up Wolfram Alpha and runs a statistical analysis. Where’s the fun in that?

3) Your Old Flame

No matter the state of your current relationship, it used to be possible to escape for a few minutes by pining for the one(s) that got away. In your mind, they’re just as hot as they were decades ago when they were captain of the football team or homecoming queen. But now they’re on Facebook. Guess what? Assuming their pictures are current, they’re just as old and fat as you are.

The good news? You might not care. There’s a reason Facebook was named as a contributing cause in 20 percent of divorces last year. And be careful whom you poke; British researchers noted a rise in sexually transmitted diseases due in part, they said, to people hooking up on social networks.

4) Listening to Albums

Remember putting “Dark Side of the Moon” on the turntable or slipping “Graceland” into your CD tray? Your kids won’t. Not only will the concept of music delivered via molecules — hard media — seem totally 20th century, but the entire concept of an album (let alone a “concept album”) will be lost on them. Over the past decade, sales of complete albums — even the nonmolecular versions – declined 55 percent to less than 400 million in 2009, according to Nielsen SoundScan. During roughly the same period, sales of individual digital tracks have soared from zero to nearly 1.2 billion.

Apple iTunes and file-sharing networks have nearly obliterated the notion of listening to more than one song by one artist in a row. “Gee Dad, what did you do before Apple invented ‘shuffle’? God, you’re so old.”

5) Gud Spelling

You can blame the rise in texting (and sexting) as much as Twitter for the death of the King’s English, though “relaxed” standards for bloggers have also played a role. Will the last copy editor left standing please turn off the lites — er, lights?

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