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Wednesday, June 5, 2013

8. Cyberculture Manifestations

Within the past ten to fifteen years, the internet has greatly changed society.  The dependency of internet-based  functions has certainty increased.  A great population has become reliant on the internet for entertainment, knowledge, and communication.

Such things that have sprouted from this dependency on the interwebs are things such as blogs, memes, online games, social networking, and instant messaging.  While some of these manifestations are quite useful--social networking and communication--, some things face lesser meaningful value but are praised from users at a greater level.  The things known as memes are possibly the most idiotic fan-spread craze that has swept across the world wide web.  They are simply stupid repeated saying with stupid pictures.  And yet those are what's "popular" in the cyberculture.

As stated in a previous post, parents should restrict their children from certain parts of this culture.  The internet has a dark side consisting of porn, and sites that could lead to unsafe connections with people.  Not only is some content inappropriate, but I can say from experience that Internet use is like drug use.  Its habit forming.  People learn to communicate through this cyberculture but lose the ability to communicate face to face.  This cyberculture is a double-edged sword of wonderful things while other parts could be done without.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberculture#Manifestations_of_cyberculture

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