Is the virtual world a threat to our sanity?

[holepuncture]

1/5 divorces cite facebook as key factor in the break down.

 

Reports of deaths and fits from youths in online gaming:

 

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-11/01/content_3714003.htm

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1086700/Boy-goes-convulsions-playing-World-Warcraft-24-hours-straight.html

 

 

And now we have this 16 year old lad from a Christian background being convicted of this horrible and insane murder, which was connived through facebook smilies and emoticons amougnst his piers:

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2019409/Joshua-Davies-16-dared-Facebook-friends-murder-Rebecca-Aylward.html#ixzz1TK32SkSk

 

I found this video which certainly made me feel a bit silly about social networking, I think Gardiner puts the point across very well:

 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UouP8cRYZ8&feature=player_embedded#at=347

 

Has society become stronger or weaker since the emergence of the online world?

[Spudders]

In my opinion, blaming the internet for those kind of actions is like blaming a knife manufacture for their products being used to stab people.

 

This sort of thing is about upbringing, respect, knowing right from wrong, self governance, etc.

 

Anyone who spends so long on an internet game that they die is just stupid. Natural selection at work in my opinion. It should be sad that someone has died, but I can’t help but find it funny, honestly, it is funny.

 

In the case of the lad killing the girl - personally I just have never been in a situation where I’d say to anyone “I could kill someone”, it’s just not something I’d ever consider or think. But even if I had of, anyone I know would respond with a “Don’t be stupid”, “shut up you chimp” or something like that. It just would not be met with anyone ever saying, they’d buy me breakfast if I did it. To be honest these days, I actually fail to understand how people think?

 

 

Ross Gardiner is absolutely right in what he says in that video, but he’s taken it all far too seriously (although as we’ve seen on here, the internet is serious business!!!!!)

 

 

Has society become stronger or weaker since the emergence of the online world? – Society seems to be becoming more and more fu cked up, but I don’t think the internet is to blame, it’s just another tool used to facilitate the way people act and think. These actions all start in the human mind.

 

What a crazy old world we live in. Anyhew, I had better get on now, I watched dexter the other night so I’m off to plan how best I’m gonna chop someone up……………..

[Griffo]

With regards to Facebook, it's decent to have to be able to get hold of people and organise things, but many people I know sit on the thing all day. People that update their status every hour to let everyone know what they're doing? What's the point? People that speak in text language, people that upload thousands of photos of themselves in the mirror, people that have hundreds and hundreds of friends when they barely know a tenth of them, just because it makes them feel popular. Sad b*stards.

 

Another thing that ****es me off is all these Facebook games. "Like my status and I'll tell you what I like about you." "Inbox me a number and I'll write a status about you."

 

C*nts.