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Sep

Is The Internet Making Us Apathetic?

   Posted by: jude   in Home and Family

Loneliness for teens is a very worrisome thing for me because of all the teen suicides that I hear about now. I think the latest data is from 2005 and says that 4.5 per 100,000 are teen suicides. Our children are becoming that indifferent that they simply don’t care any more, now that’s very scary. Where in the world do we place blame or do we? What’s the answer to this apathetic, indifferent world we now find ourself faced with?

As I get older I sometimes have feelings of apathy or the lack of interest or enthusiasm for things and people that have mattered before especially with the current events happening with my Son. At times I simply have blamed it on menopause and other times I see it as a natural process of aging because I sometimes feel that it takes too much effort so it’s easier to be indifferent.

We all go through so many lessons and experiences in our life time that sometimes it feels like those experiences drain our very life blood and it’s easier to simply turn out the light and that’s where faith and hope come in for me. If any of you have ever studied a “Course In Miracles” it tells you that in this reality nothing is real so to me that promotes a sense of indifference.

How are our youth coping these days with important issues that are going on? Do they watch too much television, spend too much time in chatrooms and the Internet, too involved with gaming and  looking for other ways to disengage from society? I know we are very worried about our youth and their future, but what happens when we the adults are doing those very things to disengage from society also?

Is the Internet making it too easy too isolate yourself from society? I know I spend way too much time online and I know for a fact that it helps me disassociate from the real world so actually I have my answer right there so what happens to our youth when we allow them to interact with text messaging and email instead of actual social interaction? I personally like being alone, but I’m old now and I’ve had my experiences and lived a life.

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Patricia
 1 

I spend probably too much time online too, but if someone says “Let’s go do something!” I drop my mouse and I’m out the door!

September 8th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
Patricia
 2 

I spend probably too much time online too, but if someone says “Let’s go do something!” I drop my mouse and I’m out the door!

September 8th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
S. Hart
 3 

I’ve observed that our youth respond very differently to these forms of technology than adults do. Whereas many adults escape from their peers into a “virtual world” on the internet, lending themselves quite readily to isolation, the young use the internet and texting as an adjunct to verbal communication with their local friends. They’re just as apt to pick up their phone to text someone as they are to speak on the phone—except because of the rates for cell phones, it’s cheaper for them to text each other. Likewise, they’ll “multi-task”—communicating with a group of people on the internet, while texting their friends and carrying on a face-to-face talk with others. Perhaps for some, the computer allows them to retreat from the world, but for others who use social networking sites like FaceBook, MySpace, etc it’s a way for them to reach out and discover others in the world.

September 9th, 2008 at 12:17 am
S. Hart
 4 

I’ve observed that our youth respond very differently to these forms of technology than adults do. Whereas many adults escape from their peers into a “virtual world” on the internet, lending themselves quite readily to isolation, the young use the internet and texting as an adjunct to verbal communication with their local friends. They’re just as apt to pick up their phone to text someone as they are to speak on the phone—except because of the rates for cell phones, it’s cheaper for them to text each other. Likewise, they’ll “multi-task”—communicating with a group of people on the internet, while texting their friends and carrying on a face-to-face talk with others. Perhaps for some, the computer allows them to retreat from the world, but for others who use social networking sites like FaceBook, MySpace, etc it’s a way for them to reach out and discover others in the world.

September 9th, 2008 at 12:17 am
thefoolonthehill
 5 

You ended with this: “I personally like being alone, but I’m old now and I’ve had my experiences and lived a life.”

thefool says: I can only speak as a male. And things are different for males. But for whatever it is worth, there isn’t anything amiss to like being alone, or being old, or having had a full life.

The Internet is bad of one’s physical health as I learned it after relapsing into Diabetes.
This time round, I have made it mandatory for the number of hours and length of time at each sitting at my Computer.

However, the Internet does have excellent means of making acquaintances and exchanges that was impossible before the dawn of the Internet.

I do not think that it is has an dampening effect on being social as in a real life meet and mix relationship. It is really how the individual enhances modern technology in living a balanced life.

You have a well written and though provoking article I must admit.

Cheers!

September 9th, 2008 at 6:33 am
thefoolonthehill
 6 

You ended with this: “I personally like being alone, but I’m old now and I’ve had my experiences and lived a life.”

thefool says: I can only speak as a male. And things are different for males. But for whatever it is worth, there isn’t anything amiss to like being alone, or being old, or having had a full life.

The Internet is bad of one’s physical health as I learned it after relapsing into Diabetes.
This time round, I have made it mandatory for the number of hours and length of time at each sitting at my Computer.

However, the Internet does have excellent means of making acquaintances and exchanges that was impossible before the dawn of the Internet.

I do not think that it is has an dampening effect on being social as in a real life meet and mix relationship. It is really how the individual enhances modern technology in living a balanced life.

You have a well written and though provoking article I must admit.

Cheers!

September 9th, 2008 at 6:33 am
Bill
 7 

Yes, it’s hard to set an example for young people when, like you said, you personally like being alone. My wife and I spend a lot of time online as part of our businesses, but our 14 year old daughter needs to be out socializing with kids her age.

September 9th, 2008 at 6:48 am
Bill
 8 

Yes, it’s hard to set an example for young people when, like you said, you personally like being alone. My wife and I spend a lot of time online as part of our businesses, but our 14 year old daughter needs to be out socializing with kids her age.

September 9th, 2008 at 6:48 am
Varun
 9 

It’s not going to get any better anytime soon either.People would rather chat online sitting in the attic than go out for a walk in fresh air.Apart from depression it’s causing one more dangerous trend,obesity.

September 9th, 2008 at 6:25 pm
Varun
 10 

It’s not going to get any better anytime soon either.People would rather chat online sitting in the attic than go out for a walk in fresh air.Apart from depression it’s causing one more dangerous trend,obesity.

September 9th, 2008 at 6:25 pm

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