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Re: Cut the cord... I find it funny when people completely miss the point of someone's post. My point was that the same people who say tv is bad, are also some of the people who spend all their time on the Internet, which can be just as bad as tv |
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Evanston, IL | Internet has the capability of interacting with other people. TV does not. Unless you spend all of your time online on one site, you cannot compare the two. |
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| Yes you can. Go look at the first post in this thread in which I originally responded too. You can't tell me that the same principles in that post don't apply to the Internet as well |
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said by FBGuy:Internet has the capability of interacting with other people. TV does not.
Absolutely not true. |
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| said by dslfan90 :said by FBGuy:Internet has the capability of interacting with other people. TV does not.
Absolutely not true. so, you are saying that it is not the case that Internet has the capabiltiy of interacting with other people?
I'm doing it right now, unless you are a robot.
I have never seen a case, where I could interact with other people through my Television. |
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Evanston, IL | reply to chances14
Some people have access to the internet everywhere. I've used it when I went camping before to help me find information on how to treat a rash.
I see your point and it is a bit of a stretch to be honest. |
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If you never watch TV and have made that choice, that is fine for you. Others make different choices. It doesn't make you right and someone else wrong. It also does not make you better than anyone else. |
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| Of course it doesn't. But I'm not stuck with a big ugly tv bill every month for programming that I cannot watch because I'm too busy out being awesome.
Keep in mind that in 2020 the average cable tv customer will be dumping about $25k into cable tv every decade. Sounds like a great investment /s |
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said by FBGuy:I see your point and it is a bit of a stretch
Not really. Internet addiction is real and prevalent in today's society ,which can lead to the points that was made in the original post in this thread in some cases, just like with tv. Seems like everyone just has to have a smartphone these days |
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| I have a niece who sends about 3,000 text messages a month and spends about 1,500 minutes a month talking on her cell phone. She also spend many, many hours surfing on her desktop on the internet. Are these activities healthier, more fulfilling and better than watching TV? |
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said by chances14:said by FBGuy:I see your point and it is a bit of a stretch
Internet addiction is real and prevalent in today's society sources??? I'll buy that it is real, but prevalent I don't think so. |
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said by dslfan90 :I have a niece who sends about 3,000 text messages a month and spends about 1,500 minutes a month talking on her cell phone. She also spend many, many hours surfing on her desktop on the internet. Are these activities healthier, more fulfilling and better than watching TV?
at least she is talking with her peers. If she was in front of a TV she wouldn't be talking to anyone.
I guess next you are going to say that it isn't health to communicate with other human beings? |
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| You are ridiculous. It's not possible to have a meaningful discussion with you. Apparently, doing more fulfilling things than watching TV is not paying off for you. |
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Evanston, IL | Oh oh I have another plus for the Internet. There are trolls. Does your fancy TV have trolls? |
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And I don't know why you gave up? I asked questions and I would like an answer. |
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said by FBGuy:said by dslfan90 :I have a niece who sends about 3,000 text messages a month and spends about 1,500 minutes a month talking on her cell phone. She also spend many, many hours surfing on her desktop on the internet. Are these activities healthier, more fulfilling and better than watching TV?
at least she is talking with her peers. If she was in front of a TV she wouldn't be talking to anyone. I guess next you are going to say that it isn't health to communicate with other human beings? I guess you never heard of a SMART TV? Or a Rasberry pi attached to your TV.
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| said by Mele20:I guess you never heard of a SMART TV? Or a Rasberry pi attached to your TV.
Is that a line item on your cable bill? If not, I wasn't considering it as a part of TV Service. |
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said by FBGuy:Oh oh I have another plus for the Internet. There are trolls. Does your fancy TV have trolls?
Does Fox News count?  |
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said by dslfan90 :I have a niece who sends about 3,000 text messages a month and spends about 1,500 minutes a month talking on her cell phone. She also spend many, many hours surfing on her desktop on the internet. Are these activities healthier, more fulfilling and better than watching TV?
As to the text messages and conversation, yes. How much "healthier, more fulfilling and better" they are depends on the content, but if you ask me which is behaving in a better way, a person sitting in front of a screen consuming content or one talking to people, even about trivialities, I'd say the talker is very probably, if not certainly, in a better state. As for the desktop, it depends how much time is spent consuming and how much producing. That time which is spent consuming is of the same quality as time in front of a TV, how good depends on what is being consumed. That time spent producing is better than the time in front of the TV. |
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| said by Cjones :As to the text messages and conversation, yes. How much "healthier, more fulfilling and better" they are depends on the content, but if you ask me which is behaving in a better way, a person sitting in front of a screen consuming content or one talking to people, even about trivialities, I'd say the talker is very probably, if not certainly, in a better state. As for the desktop, it depends how much time is spent consuming and how much producing. That time which is spent consuming is of the same quality as time in front of a TV, how good depends on what is being consumed. That time spent producing is better than the time in front of the TV.
More opinions! Please provider the authoritative sources to support your statements. I now know that those are required in order to offer an opinion. |
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