Internet Changes Lives in SA

[rpm]

http://mybroadband.co.za/nephp/?m=show&id=425

 

[stepper]

South Africans have been quick to see the fun to be had on forums with real time information sharing. These users fully understand what it means to be part of the Internet generation and have cultivated respected net identities.

They are talking about me and possibly you and MyADSL.

This is good news for a number of interested parties but mostly for South Africans themselves. It is a strong indication that we are keeping abreast of global technological changes and openly embracing technology.

Well I'll like to think so, but with Telkom still a monopoly, the changes are painfully slow or non-existent where I'm sitting.

 

[Spamtheman]

A recent survey called Project SA User by WebCheck revealed that more users now consider themselves to be technologically advanced.

Ah, but what do those who are actually technologically advanced think of the average user? Owning a pc, iPod and a PS2 does not translate into knowledge (as a lot of people seem to think).

 

[SlimJim]

Ah, but what do those who are actually technologically advanced think of the average user? Owning a pc, iPod and a PS2 does not translate into knowledge (as a lot of people seem to think).

of course it does
granted majority of it is idiot proof, but the more exposure the general public have to technology in any form, the more they will have an understanding of its capabilities.
its a knock on effect... you will always have more advanced users, but its the average user that dictates the pace.

 

[bb_matt]

Ah, but what do those who are actually technologically advanced think of the average user? Owning a pc, iPod and a PS2 does not translate into knowledge (as a lot of people seem to think).

You must remember that to consider yourself technologically advanced doesn't mean you have to understand the underlying technology, just be comfortable using it.

The average person, no matter how intelligent, will often pat themselves on the back for managing to install a piece of software and grin and say "Aren't I good ?"

This is fact and computer geeks should not deride them for it.

That would be like a professional rock climber laughing at the first timer scrambling over their first obstacle, proclaiming "I did it ! - I'm a rock climber !"

Or a mechanic poking fun at a person who just figured out how to change a spark plug and is proud of themselves for doing so.

 

[Spamtheman]

Are you trying to remove all the fun involved in being better than someone else at something?

 

[slimothy]

if i was a rock climbing mechanic i'd laugh at the idiots who scramble over thier first obstacle to get to the car to install software that tells them to change the spark plug because they are newb scum and i am teh leet

 

[SlimJim]

if i was a rock climbing mechanic i'd laugh at the idiots who scramble over thier first obstacle to get to the car to install software that tells them to change the spark plug because they are newb scum and i am teh leet

mate.. there ain't nothing l33t about being big headed

 

[slimothy]

...it was so obviously a joke

 

[Doges]

Internet changed my live, YEAH! It made me poorer, what with the broadband extortion racket Telkom's got going!

 

[Spamtheman]

It got me off crack, I can't afford both

 

[lilgindauk]

It got me off crack, I can't afford both

I can see you got issues!
The intenet has changed my life for the better. no more running to the library for info. Google for 10secs
copy and paste. Presto My assignment

 

[Perdition]

No wonder kids are getting more retarded by the day

 

[lilgindauk]

actually, that was one time i fogot i had an assignment.
So i booted up my comp and surfed the net for it. It was osmosis!
The net also changes lives socially aswell.
Some people rather hug thier dsl lines instead of the girlfriends

 

[Doges]

No wonder kids are getting more retarded by the day

lilgindauk is living prove of this!

 

[bb_matt]

actually, that was one time i fogot i had an assignment.
So i booted up my comp and surfed the net for it. It was osmosis!
The net also changes lives socially aswell.
Some people rather hug thier dsl lines instead of the girlfriends

No wonder kids are getting more retarded by the day

It's actually scary, because this kid doesn't read anything, even in the threads he posts in.
He just posts.

It's me me me me me me me me me all the time.
He takes no time out to actually find what the original thread was about, it's concepts, it's direction and any conclusions he could make from it.

I try to remember myself at 15 and seem to remember that while I was a total little bast@rd, at least I was an inquisitive total little bast@rd, with a voracious appetite for books, my ZX Spectrum, other geeky passtimes, getting drunk and learning how to be a "rebel"

I'm not sure if kids are getting more retarded, I think that the internet just attracts retards, like moths to the flame.

Retarded is too harsh a word - I'd say it's complete lack of attention span. Many young kids can't focus on something for more than 5 minutes.