Has the internet been good for humanity?

[OddBeMe]

I’m on the fence. IOT- internet of things means sensors on cars, gps locators etc…have been integral in creating a safer society. Crime is low and has been because of IOT and genetic genealogy, communications, etc.

BUT, the internet has been a disaster in the eyes of social science. The basic ideas of democracy has never been less popular. Extremism has never been louder.

Has the Internet been good as a whole?

Yes

No

[scentoflavender]

I think what it did was make the world smaller. When I was young you'd hear stories about people abandoning thier family's and moving 10 miles away, never to be seen of heard from again. Tha couldn't happen now. You'd rarely hear about news from other places unless it was major. Now I can hear about a fight at a gas station 3 states over when I watch the news in rhe morning. I think these things always were, we just never heard about them before the Internet.

[OddBeMe]

Yes and no. I’ve actually blocked my entire family just on my phone and haven’t heard a peep from any of the pricks for months.

[scentoflavender]

You know that's actually good point

[OddBeMe]

Toxic people aren’t worth it.

[exitseven]

It has been good for collaboration. It adds efficiency in just about every business. Like most things it can be misused. I don't think all the hookups and the porn have done anyone any good, especially young people.

[OddBeMe]

Yeah porn will be forever studied in psychology. And masturbated over.

Did it help lessen sex assaults in the 90s when it became accessible in seconds? Perhaps. But it’s also led to CP which is absolute horror.

[Sevenpointfive]

i'm all for free thinking so it's helped and has been destructive. the web is biased. we need an unbiased platform.

[msc545]

Maybe. Time will tell. If we recover from the orange menally ill criminal then yes, if not then no.

[OddBeMe]

His twitter feed alone will be archived as the destructive event that ended America. For the aliens who explore here in a thousand years.

(Alien wipes ashes off screen) What is a trump?

[ProbablyClueless]

I think it's been a good thing overall. It's definitely caused a lot of damage though.

[ItsALongWayToTheTop]

The internet is the best thing that Al Gore ever invented.

[OddBeMe]

Yeah why did he say that? It was invented in the 60s-70s for the military and space programs. Then adapted to the World Wide Web by Tim Berners Lee at CERN. Lol

[ItsALongWayToTheTop]

Maybe he thought no one would notice.

[OddBeMe]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roRQ2mNwMMQ

[AlexEfron]

Internet, just like every other invention in history, is for the good. How people use it is a different topic.

[Paul09]

On the most part yes of course. But also people over use it and get addicted.

[BLP11520]

Things can be good or bad, it has always been that way.

[Dargil]

I think, yes, on average.