Internet was a net negative on humanity.

Don't even start with the "but there's fun memes and you can order stuff from eBay" crap.
That's superficial and not very high up on the priority list.
You're absolutely retarded if you think you're winning by using the Internet. It exists for Them, not for you. They're just masking this fact by throwing a bunch of pity candy on the ground for you.

>>82201025 (OP)
Youre correct anon. Its no coincidence that depression loneliness and anxiety skyrocketed after the internet became installed in every home.

>>82201025 (OP)
Internet was fine until social media.

>>82201029
Yeah, that was exactly my point. You can clearly see that everything took a sharp dive when people adopted the Internet.
The weird part is how people maintain the illusion that they're enjoying social media and staring at screens for 12 hours per day.
What if screens are more addictive than heroine? I mean, what if? It sounds crazy but what if.

>>82201032
I've used the Internet since 2001 and all the negative effects were pretty minimal when these conditions were met:
>you cant take the Internet out with you, you only use it at home (reduces screen time drastically)
>basic services in society arent online-only
>there are no massive, capitalist social media platforms
>websites aren't trying to trick you into binge watching dopamine poop
>userbase is dedicated nerds rather than vile low IQ normies
>nobody thinks the Internet is real, nobody takes it seriously

Hint: The internet is actually amazing. It's humans that suck.

>>82201025 (OP)
Internet is a good thing
Better to be a depressed chronically online guy than a cuck that married a whore without knowing

>>82201025 (OP)
I agree with you. It is a curse for anyone with spergy tendences.
I remember getting internet at hom for the first time in 2004. It was one of those shitty plans when I actually had to wait till 18:00 to connect if I didn't want to pay extra.
When I was a kid I used to play on the street a lot, went to drawing classes, karate, football. I played video games too but no more than a couple of hours a day. This was replaced with sitting on my desk at 17:55 waiting to connect to the internet. If for some reason my ips had some problem and I couldn't connect I had no problem going back to my old habits but if I could choose I would always end up at the computer.

>>82201038
People only really use the internet for porn, social media, news, and stupid reels. I think all of those things are extremely toxic to our brains.
The societies that had internet addiction first like first world east Asia are some of the unhappiest and loneliest countries on the planet

>>82201052
to be honest the current landscape was an inevitability. but yes if it were stuck in its early 2000s stage it'd be the net positive everyone was excited about.

Before internet we traded VHS cassettes with hard subs in that nostalgic yellow. This had its fun moments, but now I have mkv's and can choose eng or jp subs, or even none at all if I want to force myself to hear. Manga raws extremely easy to torrent now. And this is just for nip shit. I've gotten more books than I could read in a lifetime. A few very stupid people use the internet wrong, but that is a condemnation on them, not the internet itself. Internet is awesome and I like it very much. I can't afford to go to Japan every week or even every month. Internet allows me free access to 98% of the value Japan has to the world.
I don't have a ticktock, tinder, instagram, youtube probably average like 20 minutes a week
For whatever reason millennials seem immune to brainrot. Even when I'm jerking off it's to pictures, not video. That seems to be the key dividing line, millennials dislike video(unless it's something good like episodes of anime), zoomalfas are addicted to watching an infinite playlist of videos each one or two seconds in length. It's like someone thought vine didn't suck enough so let's make even shorter videos.
I really think it's just ignorance. Zoomalfas don't know about anime yet, and they don't videos can be longer than three seconds, they've never even heard of blogs. If someone would just show them this stuff they would drop their lame garbage and be normal like us.

>>82201163
Millennials survived internet brainsort because they had a normal, internet free childhood until they were about 10-12 years old which allowed their synapses to develop normally, Zoomies and gen alpha were literally raised by elsagate videos and iPads and saw hardcore porn when they were like 5, so they are fucked.

>>82201025 (OP)
>human does something extremely pathetic, degenerate, fucked up, etc using an inanimate object
>"why do they allow that inanimate object to be used or created, it's Le evil"
Internet is just the internet, humanity is always a negative on anything

>>82201163
I'm more or less the average age for zoomers, aka early twenties, but I caught some of the pre-social media internet and I greatly prefer reading to video. I still watch plenty of YouTube since it has some irrepleceable content, but I'd much prefer if some of it was in text format. I also hate the short video format. As long as you were online before this shit, you can avoid the current obsession.

>>82201178
Short videos are probably worse than shock content. There was always plenty to go around. I'm not the normalest of humans but Alphas are clearly dumber than those before them. 24/7 distraction, can barely write (or read in occasion) and outsource their thoughts to ChatGPT. Not just asking Google a question to inform your thinking, obviously you can't think about what you don't know, literally engaging in the mental version of laziness and having AI make your decisions and do your homework. The oldest Alphas are joining the workforce in half a decade. We'll see how things go then.

>>82201025 (OP)
DAROA required data, so corrupted the "internet" to steer it towards to the data farm that it is now.

>>82201025 (OP)
I hate to say it but you're right, OP. I have old photos taken on cheap cameras with 35mm film decades ago. It's kind of sad how few photos I have because back then cameras were clunky things you didn't carry around with you all the time, film cost money and you had to take the rolls of film to a store and pay more money to get them developed, and some of them didn't even turn out. One time I lost a whole roll of film that were the only pictures I took when me and some friends went to a different city. Another time I threw away a bunch of cool photos of myself and friends because my ex-girlfriend was in all of them.

But the photos I do have show me and my friends hanging out and having fun together. Even if you were a bit of an introvert you just couldn't sit in your room all day by yourself, it was just too boring and lonely. You were basically forced to go out and socialize. You may think you're bored and lonely now, but even a site like this provides the illusion of human contact. Try and imagine how long you'd last if you tried to stay in your room with nothing but shitty TV shows, paperback novels, and a music collection that consisted of maybe a dozen albums. I couldn't do it, even though I actually tried to do it. So I'd go out to artfag cafes and dive bars, see punk bands at live shows and go to goth nightclubs, and eventually I made friends with the other misfits and outcasts who also went to these places.

>InB4 People still go out to bars you old retard
It seems like a lot less of them do. The bars in my town are always empty even on a Saturday night on the rare occasions I go, and if I'm ever in a cafe it seems like everyone is gaping at their phones. Do misfits and outcasts still go to bars, or do they all hang out online on a Saturday night? I've read that so-called "third spaces" are disappearing, and I read another article saying even gay bars were shutting down because even fags don't go out anymore, they just meet up on grindr.

>>82201246
*DARPA
Daroa sounds like an Irish name.

I'm 35 and I hate to say this, but I'm better than you guys in every way.
Despite my age, I learn faster, I'm more mentally stable, my reward system is mostly intact, I can actually do stuff without being "forced" to stare at screens all day...

I literally have a million hobbies and I'm always coming up with new stuff to do while you guys just post frogs here and tell yourself that the Internet was a good invention.
When are you gonna build your own log cabin, anon? When will you learn to ice skate and play ice hockey with your mates? When will you travel to another country? Do you think you'll ever start your own company or make something with your own two hands?
Watch memes all you like but you cant let it stop you from doing real things. Zoomers never create anything because they're stuck on social.

>>82201163
>that is a condemnation on them, not the internet itself. Internet is awesome
I think this is an argumentative fallacy. You cant separate the users from the Internet - they're intertwined. There is no reality in which humans simply use the Internet "correctly". Thus, the Internet isn't "awesome" as it is the root cause for many large-scale problems.

>now I have mkv's and can choose eng or jp subs, or even none at all if I want to force myself to hear. Manga raws extremely easy to torrent now. And this is just for nip shit. I've gotten more books than I could read in a lifetime
That's just entertainment. It's worthless. Just like OP said, you shouldn't use movies, games, mangas etc. as an argument. When I was a kid I had 3 VHS tapes. Three. I never felt bored rewatching them, because I didn't know better. Actually, it felt better. I was never bored, but I sure as hell am bored now.

The Internet is a worldwide digital prison where they wanted to put us and turn us into behavioral data slaves.

All they needed was a bit of entertainment and we chose to imprison ourselves.
Such a weak species.

>>82201448
if anything it highlights we're a species like any other. a combined 100000 years of effort of advancement made us the greatest of predators. but individually, no one is above their brain chemistry, just like no one is above a gunshot wound.

>>82201308
>Do misfits and outcasts still go to bars, or do they all hang out online on a Saturday night?
Doubtful. At least in my country bars are still packed with people but it's either groups of friends or your local wino. It's really rare to strike up a conversation with a stranger there, I have only seen this happen in metalhead bars but you get with is pretty much the equivalent of meaningless chit chat in front of a coffee machine at work.

My take on modern internet is that easier access leads to mass consumition which long term reduces enjoyment. Also it used to be a escape from real life, but now the lines have been blurred and the internet, once mostly a paradise for outcasts, is now overrun by normies that have pretty much ruined it.

>>82201025 (OP)
Basically, yes. It's a great time-sink for loners and losers like myself, but it also raised the competition for everything to insurmountable levels.
Like globalism has, and how it forced everyone to compete with billions of sweatshop slaves on this race to the bottom.
As much as I love being on my laptop all day, I'd go back to the 90s in a heartbeat. I sure as hell socialised a lot more as a kid, than I ever did after that.
>>82201032
Also this. Before Facebook, Twatter and smartphones, it was more chill. Now everyone is depressed, or miserable, it seems.

>>82201517
>no one is above their brain chemistry

I am.
I've never enjoyed a meme. I've never used Tiktok. I dont drink alcohol.
It's called autism. I live in 3rd person

>>82201980
that's not really being above it, yours is just different. some people don't even get addicted to meth, but they still have brains. that being said, it is a benefit nowadays, at least.

Just use the Internet for hoarding data and working remotely. If you feel lonely or like you have no one to talk to, just start writing down a personal journal. There is no real reason to interact with other people here because the reward is often not worth the effort.

>t. An actual extrovert

>"hates the internet "
>still posts on the internet
huh?