Internet culture?

Question

friends , is it true that the most common reason why people log on to the net,is to get releived of their offline anxieties

Answer 1

Not necessarily.

The most common reason why people log on to the net originally is because it opens a variety of entertainment purposes from the comfort of your own home. Not to mention all of the useful tools you can find on the Internet. Everything from online dictionaries, to encyclopedia's, to sports scores, to news, to email, right at your fingertips.

I do feel that a lot of people develop a bit of an online persona, however. A "home away from home" if you will. For some, it remains just a momentary lapse from daily "real life", and it never gets out of context. Most people I firmly believe utilize the internet as the tool that it is, and it rarely goes beyond that point.

Some people, and I notice this has been ever increasing since the creation of the internet are more prone to enter different states of virtual identity that actually take up a large portion of their lives. The tricky thing about the Internet is that you can be anyone you want to be, speak very freely, and discuss or explore subjects that you simply cannot endulge in during daily life.

Some people go so far as to practically live online. For some people, the online universe is a more appealing and satisfying lifestyle than actually living in the regular world.

There is certainly the avenue for stress and anxiety relief online. Chat mediums allow you to vent and socialize with people of any culture, mindset, and geographic location, without the attachments of social requirements thrust upon us in daily life. Video games, forums, and various entertainment websites can give someone hours of enjoyment and stress relief while sitting comfortably in their computer chair.

To directly address the question: I wouldn't say the most "common" reason is to relieve offline anxiety, but it is certainly one of the many reasons people log onto the net. It may be a "popular" reason, but I feel that the most common reason that people use the Internet is for the tools it provides, which I suppose indirectly relieves offline anxiety...so if you want to look at it like that....

I guess it's open to interpretation :)

Answer 2

savor. recognize from my President Ronald Reagan years the generic public were stated that 2 twenty megaton nuclear units exploded approximately fifty miles up over conventional Rocky Mountains and Appalachia might produce Electro-Magnetic Pulse adequate to short-circuit each electric powered container in operation in the mainland u . s . a .. think of having to replace that quantity of infrastructure and how long it might take until a smoking break of cyber web way of existence might additionally be viewed worth of return? u . s . a . hardened militia centers are regularly secure against E.M.P. yet around the planet all people utilising laptop could desire to be awear that their very very own fragile way of existence in all probability will bypass away alongside with each vehicle, banking record, cellular, decimal automation, effete existence-form, actuality-finding gizmo, gendarme protections, etc. So, carry close directly to difficult reproduction if the whole existence gets fried.

Answer 3

this is one of those questions that the answers can b as varied as the individuals responding for me no i logon to connect with friends worldwide cheaper than a phone bill to research information etc etc etc

Answer 4

I don't think so. I believe instead it's to connect to online relationships, whether with people known only online or instead with people known in both worlds.

Answer 5

No. I don't I just come here because it's become an alternative to television.

Answer 6

probably is the most common

Answer 7

also to look for information, or to receive homework or handouts from teachers by email...