I don't know if its just me but it also seems like its getting harder to Google really specific information. It's easy to find tons of pretty much the same basic overview over and over again but it's harder now to find that next level of information once you already understand the basics.
Have internet forums made people lazy?
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I honestly think the internet works both ways...
If one is hungry enough to learn, you can learn almost anything you want from the internet if you dig long enough and find the right sources which can give you factual / useful information... for example i use the internet to brush up and keep up to date on my photoshop and illustrator skills from time to time...
On the other hand, it also makes the lazy even lazier due to the connivence of things such as google where you can ask whatever question you may have and be given millions of sources to choose from within 0.001 secs... only problem is the lazy will often just click the first link they see and end up with facts or information that isnt necessarily true or correct...
Rinse and repeat this cycle and we end up with what we have today... a load of information available with maybe 50% of it being correct, the other 50% being repeated bad or missing info from the lazy... see this a lot on FB groups usually...
Finally, congrats on the 5K post
If one is hungry enough to learn, you can learn almost anything you want from the internet if you dig long enough and find the right sources which can give you factual / useful information... for example i use the internet to brush up and keep up to date on my photoshop and illustrator skills from time to time...
On the other hand, it also makes the lazy even lazier due to the connivence of things such as google where you can ask whatever question you may have and be given millions of sources to choose from within 0.001 secs... only problem is the lazy will often just click the first link they see and end up with facts or information that isnt necessarily true or correct...
Rinse and repeat this cycle and we end up with what we have today... a load of information available with maybe 50% of it being correct, the other 50% being repeated bad or missing info from the lazy... see this a lot on FB groups usually...
Finally, congrats on the 5K post
I met my wife through a telephone dating service. We were both busy professional people with no desire to fish through nightclubs looking.
This was well before Google and 100% before the internet as we know it today. Lots of schools were on their own different networks with engines like Archie and Veronica and they were just starting to coordinate into the WWW.
How it worked is people could choose to leave a voice message, or just listen to everyone else. If you found a possible match you could call them, but you paid the service for their phone number. I think it was about $5 then, but that would be over $20 in today's money.
I spent around $50 to meet Judy, which was charged to my phone bill directly.
She was only the second woman I chose to meet, and it will be our 30th this October.
I'd say it was a successful system, but I'm 100% biased.
If anything, this forum has made me more active. I was growing pretty bored with some of my other hobbies a couple years ago when i started visiting here. Gradually started getting into diy fishkeeping, learning as i went. My projects have only gotten larger and more in depth. I hope to start my first real "monster" build soon.
