People take the internet, seriously?

[XColl]

People do take the internet seriously. Once, my friend and I were having a conversation. I said I had porn in my email account, and all of sudden he goes, "OMFG GIVE ME UR PASSWORD.", and I said I was just kidding. He gets pissed and said "You're a fag." and before I said "Oh my god, are you stupid? I said I was just kidding," he blocked me.

We're not friends anymore just because of that, but we still respect each other in school.

If you have a story of someone taking the internet seriously, tell it here or discuss about it.

[echo_unlimited]

People do take the internet seriously. Once, my friend and I were having a conversation. I said I had porn in my email account, and all of sudden he goes, "OMFG GIVE ME UR PASSWORD.", and I said I was just kidding. He gets pissed and said "You're a fag." and before I said "Oh my god, are you stupid? I said I was just kidding," he blocked me.

We're not friends anymore just because of that, but we still respect each other in school.

If you have a story of someone taking the internet seriously, tell it here or discuss about it.

Dude just tell him at school, that you wern't kidding about the porn in your email. Send him your email account details, and yeah. (make sure you have porn in there first)

:angel: =p

[chaganlal1]

I have known Many people for instigating fights and things in school. Its all because of that he said she said drama.

[Cynical]

Instant messaging/emailing has obviously become a huge part of how we all comminicate with each other, so it is not surprising that things said online carry over to real life and can instigate all sorts of situations. However, a friendship being destroyed over whether or not someone has porn in their inbox is a bit extreme if you ask me...

[Jacob]

As Cynical said, IMing has become an everyday part of alot of teens and adults' lives. Before work/school, it's log into the IM or email. After school/work, it's log into the IM or email. Face it, that's not going to change. However, you need to know where to draw the line. Obviously, so-called "major" school shootings, terror attacks and other criminal activities have been "busted" by IM chat logs, but for teens using MSN/AOL/YIM, it does create alot of drama and sometimes breaks relationships betweens friends, because of the "he said" or "she likes" types of things.
Teens need to know where to draw the line on taking the internet seriously.
But, obviously, internet seriousness can lead to serious things. Take child pornography, for instance. You will hear about disheveled teens who will expose themselves for messed up old perverts because they're getting too caught up in the internet and taking it "too seriously". Some of this maddness has got to stop.

[noerrorsfound]

As Cynical said, IMing has become an everyday part of alot of teens and adults' lives. Before work/school, it's log into the IM or email. After school/work, it's log into the IM or email. Face it, that's not going to change. However, you need to know where to draw the line. Obviously, so-called "major" school shootings, terror attacks and other criminal activities have been "busted" by IM chat logs, but for teens using MSN/AOL/YIM, it does create alot of drama and sometimes breaks relationships betweens friends, because of the "he said" or "she likes" types of things.
Teens need to know where to draw the line on taking the internet seriously.
But, obviously, internet seriousness can lead to serious things. Take child pornography, for instance. You will hear about disheveled teens who will expose themselves for messed up old perverts because they're getting too caught up in the internet and taking it "too seriously". Some of this maddness has got to stop.

Not just before school/work and after school/work, but also during school/work.

[Corey]

I use the internet daily to communicate to people all over the world. It's fast easy and doesn't cost anything extra ;). I think it's a great way to keep in touch and especially from a business point of a view.

One of the largest problems I have with internet communication is sometimes it is hard to interpret emotions. A lot of times things can be taken the wrong way because of the way they were typed. I believe this is a huge issue and can lead to problems when communicating to other people.

Then again, some people make their living off the internet. So it can be taken very seriously. It's more of a hobby for me though.

-Corey

[unpixelatedgamers]

One of the largest problems I have with internet communication is sometimes it is hard to interpret emotions. A lot of times things can be taken the wrong way because of the way they were typed. I believe this is a huge issue and can lead to problems when communicating to other people.

Hit the nail right on the head.

That can often be the case both IMing and on Forums. Sometimes people may say:

'That is crap'

When they are only being sarcastic. Then other people, not realising that they were being sarcastic, start flaming them for being negative.

I am guilty of mis-reading another's post a couple of days ago and started flaming him because of what i thought he wrote. Then he got angry and told me to re-read his post and i realised i'd read it wrong. Though, to be honest, the post could have been structured better to make the meaning more clear.

This is one of the reasons why spelling and punctuation, although it sounds silly, are so important nowadays.

I know i'm not perfect in my spelling and grammer (and probably never will be) but i always try to make the message of writing very clear.

Anyway, i'm going off-topic here.

Yep, some people take the internet too seriously.

[PSP-Heaven]

Nowadays the internet is used for serious stuff as you guys stated above. Before, the internet used to be for tech-geeks, and people who had interest in going "online" and viewing pages stored not on your hardrive, but on other peoples. But, as the internet evolved, chat systems and messengers came in. Then came the pouring teens. Talking for free, without the hassle of having a phone charged, or only talking during certain times to get calls for free, the internet was a reliable, and relatively cheep way to communicate with friends and family in a no-hassle kind of way. Then, as it kept on evolving, so did eMail. Now, you can send pictures and videos of yourself and/or your family, to lets say a family member 100s of miles away from you.

Then, the new age. The light of the internet was seen from teens to young adults. Torrents. The internet can be used to store files and allow them to be publicly downloaded to you harddrive. So why not 'share' files? Thats when P2P networks came into play. LimeWire, KaZaa, BitTorrent, Azureus just to name a few. You could get retail things, for free! Then, teens discovered that websites can offer pornography. Meaning, the internet is not only a reliable tool used to enhance your knowledge, but something that can distort your mind into something, that you may not actually be.

And as teens start using email and messenger to converse their thoughts and opinions, grammer is usually not implied. So, mistaken meanings can lead to the 'real world' and thus affect the relationship you had with the person. Also, emails can be sent anonymously to people you hate, called 'hate mail'. In my opinion, I take "the internet" seriously, but i take most of the people in not, "not seriously".

[Jacob]

Yes, the internet has really taken off as far as popularity, but people need to know where to "draw the line". Teenagers are now getting in more trouble than ever thanks to pornography, file sharing, illegal drug/other illegal purchasing, etc.

When I started using the internet, I surfed a few web pages per day, but there was really nothing worth seeing. I am proud to say I have first-hand witnessed the internet take off. Ten years ago if you would have told me that I would be designing, coding and running my own personal website/online journal (let alone told me it would be called a 'blog'), I probably would have referred you to a local psychologist. As PSP so delicatly put it, I take the internet seriously, but I take most of the people in not, not seriously.