Subj : is the main stream internet making people dumb
To   : ALL
From : Bbsing Bbs
Date : Fri Aug 11 2017 02:52:19

  Re: is the main stream internet making people dumb
  By: Bbsing Bbs to All on Wed Aug 09 2017 02:49 am

I agree with those who have responded. I find it odd coming from computing in
the days where the internet wasn't much compared to today. I remember the cusp
of what appeared to be the start of the information age. Then seeing the change
slowing into comerce more and more and the web primary development for comerce.
Information gathering and infomration and computer usage in most of the public
space just became about comerce. 

Now how does this dumb down the public. I suppose comerce is helping that for
sure when I see the use of the internet for comcerce not providing a primary
purpose for information sharing. yes there is informationsharing but where is
it all. Look at the migration ofr publishing from a cost perspective. You would
think the cost for publsihing dropping considerably but the price for
information is still relativily high. 

The very place this message is being read is free for us all. The information
whtin isn't worht much outside our opinions being valued highly, or not.
Always interesting seeing responses and flames, most messages, forums, blogs,
twits, ...etc flames flames flames and usually sping out of control into
political correctness, or some perversion to denegrade and remove intellegent
conversavtion and constructive cooperation. Its nuts. 

So I look to examples of the Kardashian's youtube cookie organization videos,
to countless other moderate entertainment cinnamon challenges  (can't spell its
getting worse for a computer guy), its just mind blowing to me the best of us
can't be found and is hardly promotted on the internet but the worste and
mediority is widely pervasive. 

Information gathering and agregation for data analytics is the primary buzz,
under data science. These things categorize negativily under privacy assaults
and right to inforation death/deletion. Its impossibly for americans right now
and also verification, but as noted google search often produces adds personal
to the user searching. The results leads to distraction and poor habits towards
shopping instead of contibuting content with meaning. 

I and others can go on and on about this, but the other question is how to
apply any force to steer the current momentum of the mega corps and primary
surface web to something of eglaterian value for us all to move into a true
information age. 

As always more thoughts are welcome, all thoughts and perspectives. 

I applogize for the grammer, and the spelling. I'm a compture guy not an
english guy. I also am working this via live without spellcheck or stuff like
that.
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