Do you think that the Internet has changed everyday tasks such as shopping and communication?

Question

Everyone knows that the Internet is changing life but is it changing life for the better or for the worse?

Answer 1

A difficult question........I would not like to drag my children out on a cold wet winters morning to have to go do the weekly shop....

But ordering online is not keeping us active enough, at least you had to go out the house, and get fresh air etc.........

I think it is for the better as long as you realise that you need to keep active in everyday life

Answer 2

I think it has increased the choice in shopping rather than changed everyday tasks. It is another, sometimes more convenient, way of finding what you need. It has not replaced, nor do I think it will ever replace, local shops and markets.

Communication is perhaps the area where the Internet has come into its own. You can communicate throughout the world, for virtually nothing. This is where I believe that life will ultimately change for the better. Governments will find it difficult to deal with the threat that the internet poses, in terms of exposing its lies and hypocrisy. People will no longer be controlled by illegitimate governance, and will rebel with more than a soap box in a quiet corner of Hyde square.

For sure they can be still be silenced by financial persecution and illegal policing, but terrorism will increase when governments try to silence people who can expose their fraud!

Answer 3

It has created greater access to everything.
Back in the day if you wanted a song you had to go to the mall try to find the CD only to find, we're all out but we can order it for you it'll be in in a week, another trip to the mall and you got your song along with about 14 others that you really didn't want oh, and you paid $1 each for all of them for a total of $15.

That's just one of a million examples.

But if easier access to stuff just means people are buying even more crap than they really need its not such a good thing.

It's a tool, it's all what you do with it.

If the only thing you use the tool for is looking at porn all day, not such a good thing

But if you find that set of dishes on Ebay that are the exact ones that your grandmother had and you always remembered them from when you were a kid, that pretty cool.

Answer 4

It definitely makes research one whole lot easier, either when looking up facts, or finding an item to buy. It tends to level prices at a low point, which is good. It is a time waster, but so is everything else. You fill that 24 hours a day one way or another.

It also changes social dynamics. News was getting to be doled out by a few big communications corporations. The Internet through a great big monkey wrench into that, and we needed it badly.

It lets you interact better on the intellectual level (or just plain be a jerk to your heart's content), but does indeed reduce interaction on the physical social level.

My feeling is that there are more pluses then minuses.

-Dio

Answer 5

It depends on peoples situations. Take for example women. There is an increased number of mothers who return to work and do really long hours (although men do to-I am just talking about how women used to stay at home more and had time to do the shopping). The internet gives them chance to order food, buy clothes when they otherwise wouldn't have the time to go out. I think the disabled also benefit. How frustrating is it going shopping, especially at busy times, and having to fight your way around tiny shops with narrow isles when you are in a wheelchair. I do however also think that it makes a lot of people lazy and doesn't help with their social skills. That's only my opinion- I'm sure everyone thinks different

Answer 6

Depends how you view it, if you are happy to stay in your house and do all your shopping and work from your home then it must be a God send, from a commercial point of view on the high street then it can be a dist aster, i know of some retail shops that are going under because people buy on line, sometimes after viewing the goods in the shop, Hifi stuff for example then going online and getting a cheaper deal, for many shops its to late and to expensive to set up online selling, result; we will loose a lot of retail shops and there expertise and the interaction that we once had with the people in the shop etc, we will miss them when they are gone but by then it will be to late!!!

Communication wise, with E mail it is opening up the world, i have friends who have emigrated to New Zealand, keeping in touch with E mail is so easy, you might loose touch if all you had was the phone and snail mail, in conclusion i think there are pros's and con's to the Internet, perhaps one of the scariest downside is the fact that it must make it a lot easier for terrorists to operate and paedophiles etc.....

Answer 7

Better!

Shopping - I do all my shopping on the Internet, leaving me more time to do other more important things in my life.

Communication - I keep in touch with a lot more people through email than I ever have. It's a way for me to make new friends and keep in touch with old friends. I also make plans through email. It's so much easier than making phone calls!

If I have a question I go to Yahoo Answers or look it up on the Internet.

I look for all of my recipes on the Internet and exchange recipes with friends through email.

I organize my life on the Internet. Send email cards to friends and family to let them know I'm thinking of them on their birthdays - all for free.

I make all my greeting cards on the computer and get free clip art from the Internet for my cards. It's wonderful!

Worse!

Kids on the Internet is a scary, scary thing! Where are their parents?!

People who spend all day on the computer and let it run their lives. (However, that's not the fault of the Internet - It's the persons self control issue)

Answer 8

both, im not the sort of person that spends my life infront of the screen but its very good for looking stuff up and i have made friends with people from all over the world that i would not have been able to do otherwise. and with regards to shopping its great. i save myself a ton of money online and can order things that i would not find where i live like stuff off of american websites... and ebay, well i love it! lol

Answer 9

Yes, on the plus side, you can with a few strokes of the keys, get want you want without leaving home, on the minus side, people have become less interactive with others. Thre isn't much personal contact with people as much anymore.

Answer 10

For the better. But perhaps we all worked more (instead of playing on answers) before the internet!