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- Ceredigion
How did we manage before....
- Thread starter bobk
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- North Somerset.
Some dopey young woman on television news this week complainng that the app on her phone hat she relied on for contraception had let her down and she was pregnant.
There s a generation growing up who will not be able to function without the internet.
There s a generation growing up who will not be able to function without the internet.
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had e nuff
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- Durham
Still do,but drink less now.
glasshouse
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- lothians
M-J-G
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And the fact that typing posts to strangers is classed as talking, say it all really.
CharcoalWally
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- West of Scotland
Some of us still do.
I'd far rather spend Saturday night in the pub than be on here.
Red Fred
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- Hants/Dorset border
I find it doesn't affect socialising at all, if anything thanks to the net I am in touch with old friends who would otherwise have gone under the radar. Instead it replaces the tellie. I'm sorry to say I used to finish work and flop in front of the TV for an hour or two.
Now I don't have a TV and I love the internet, it doesn't just broadcast an opinion at you as the BBC often seem to do, you can interact on any subject with like minded people
Now I don't have a TV and I love the internet, it doesn't just broadcast an opinion at you as the BBC often seem to do, you can interact on any subject with like minded people
FonterraFarmer
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- Waikato, New Zealand
I find the internet is great, instead of pissing off people locally , now I can do it on a global scale!!!
Subsidies and supply management are for pansies!!!
Subsidies and supply management are for pansies!!!
Y Fan Wen
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- N W Snowdonia
It is so, so much easier to find things you want to buy.
Tarw Coch
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- Bottom of Wats Dyke
The alternator is playing up on my manitou, mechanics came out yesterday but can’t do anything because someone has dug the cables up outside the dealers so internet is down. Without the internet they can’t tell if they’ve got the right alternator in stock
How did they manage before?
The country functioned fine before the internet but if anything we seem to have become too reliant on it and can’t function without it and that to my mind isn’t a good thing..
How did they manage before?
The country functioned fine before the internet but if anything we seem to have become too reliant on it and can’t function without it and that to my mind isn’t a good thing..
M-J-G
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I used to get all I needed before the internet was around, and I don't recall thinking that I could have done with some easier way to find things.
diesel1
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- North Yorkshire
The internet and all this technology is all good and well until we have another solar storm like the one in 1859 known as the carrington effect, all electronics would be knock out, no internet, any thing with a micro processer will be fried! reliance on all this technology will one day be our down fall.
The problem with internet and the young uns is they've never had the capability to converse . or maybe it ain't sh!t or whatever .
I agree - it’s going to be a big problem in the future - too much time staring at screens does not develop people skills. Any computer geeks in their early 20’s I have dealt with are extremely difficult people with serious personality disorders (won’t mention any names ! ). They simply don’t understand people, lack empathy and are completely unable to understand other point of views or compromise etc. They are just not like “normal” people and extremely difficult to get on with
I’m really conscious of it with my kids now - like all kids they love a screen and would play x box or on a iPad all day if I let them so screen time has to be rationed very strictly
The Internet is a skill they will need in the future but people are more important than screens and knowing how to deal with people and problems is far more important and useful
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Some of us still do.
I'd far rather spend Saturday night in the pub than be on here.
Most pubs are full of people .......... staring into their phone screens !
tommyurray
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You mean you are their customer ?
Or at least I hope you do
Your first paragraph describes a lot of farmers I know.
And just like farmers there is a broad range of computer geeks out there.
Hilly
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- Scottish Borders.
The internet just makes everything instant, rather than go look for a phone box i can message rather than wait for a brochure i can down load and order , its speed of communication its great !
Pheasant Surprise
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- Woodbridge, Suffolk
Tarw Coch
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- Bottom of Wats Dyke
Actually the mobile phone covers most of that, although the phone is almost certainly connected to tinternet too.
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