What has the Internet taught you?

[Riesstiu IV]

Ha, no one likes you!

[notyoueither]

Spend less time at 'poly...

I've yet to see an internet forum without nutbars. That includes blogs with zero responses.

[notyoueither]

You're only 23. That makes you about 7 years old when I first went on the internet, and about 10 when it started becoming widespread in my community.

You couldn't even get foreign papers in my town until 1990.

Oh yeah?

When I was a lad, we lived in a rolled up local paper. The closest we got to foreign influence on the information superhighway is when someone ran our house over with a BMW.

[Jon Miller]

qft. over 5 years since I downloaded or looked at porn (intentionally) on the internet.

Over 10 years for me

JM

[Tuberski]

Yea, Body Count was a pretty good band. I saw them with Guns n' Roses and Metallica.

I've never been a big metal head.

ACK!

[Agathon]

Oh... the internet also taught me that everyone else is gay. I once thought the claim that 10% of the population was gay was a wild exaggeration.

This forum is a case in point. It's overrun with battyboys.

In accordance with stereotypes MacRumors is worse.

[Main_Brain]

Recently i learned about the Internet hotness conversion factor..

[Dis]

had to look that one up. never heard of it.

[Solomwi]

I got "Did you mean: Internet hardness conversion factor" from Google.

[Dis]

ya I got that too

[MrFun]

The Internet has also taught Dis what hickies are.

[Blaupanzer]

The internet shows us all what a wide variety of people are in the world. I tend to embrace this diversity while being careful not to use my own name while surfing. Others see these differences as ignorance, perversion, or willful stupidity. In all reality, I try to see things from the off-the-wall person's point-of-view. If that view is coherent then I don't throw demeaning labels at them. All that said, some folks do seem to be dumber than posts and willfully stubborn about staying that way. More such people exist off the internet than on.