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This is an artical I found in the magazine New Scientist.
"FAR from being friendless nerds, Internet users lead more sociable lives than non-surfers. A survey of 2500 randomly selected Britons revealed that people who go online tend to be better paid and better educated than those who don't. They are also more likely to go be regular churchgoers and to belong to a community group or voluntary organisation. There is a huge divide bebtween those who surf and those who don't, says Andrew Oswald at Warwick University, who carried out the study. Contray to popular opinion, surfers dont spend their days slouched over a computer, he says. They simply watch less television."
I would agree with this artical, because since being connected to the internet my live has become more sociable. This is because I have made many new friends in places such as chat rooms and MSN, then there is this place (heaven on the internet). I now have friends in different countries, and have/am meeting some of them (great when you go on holiday because you have a free place to stay and personal tour guide).
Also I do watch alot less television, partly because these days there is sooo much crap on it, I can find more intresting things to do on the Internet. Weather it being interacting with other Internet users, surfing intresting sites or playing games. Surfing the Internet has also helped teach me things, so I am better educated now than I was in certain areas :). If it wasnt for useful websites, I wouldnt of built my own computer, and continued making/repairing them for other people (thus better paid).
What do you think? Are you friendless, I never was before I started on the Internet now I just have more. Do you watch less talevision? Are you more sociable? Post your coments here.
"FAR from being friendless nerds, Internet users lead more sociable lives than non-surfers. A survey of 2500 randomly selected Britons revealed that people who go online tend to be better paid and better educated than those who don't. They are also more likely to go be regular churchgoers and to belong to a community group or voluntary organisation. There is a huge divide bebtween those who surf and those who don't, says Andrew Oswald at Warwick University, who carried out the study. Contray to popular opinion, surfers dont spend their days slouched over a computer, he says. They simply watch less television."
I would agree with this artical, because since being connected to the internet my live has become more sociable. This is because I have made many new friends in places such as chat rooms and MSN, then there is this place (heaven on the internet). I now have friends in different countries, and have/am meeting some of them (great when you go on holiday because you have a free place to stay and personal tour guide).
Also I do watch alot less television, partly because these days there is sooo much crap on it, I can find more intresting things to do on the Internet. Weather it being interacting with other Internet users, surfing intresting sites or playing games. Surfing the Internet has also helped teach me things, so I am better educated now than I was in certain areas :). If it wasnt for useful websites, I wouldnt of built my own computer, and continued making/repairing them for other people (thus better paid).
What do you think? Are you friendless, I never was before I started on the Internet now I just have more. Do you watch less talevision? Are you more sociable? Post your coments here.
This is an artical I found in the magazine New Scientist.
"FAR from being friendless nerds, Internet users lead more sociable lives than non-surfers. A survey of 2500 randomly selected Britons revealed that people who go online tend to be better paid and better educated than those who don't. They are also more likely to go be regular churchgoers and to belong to a community group or voluntary organisation. There is a huge divide bebtween those who surf and those who don't, says Andrew Oswald at Warwick University, who carried out the study. Contray to popular opinion, surfers dont spend their days slouched over a computer, he says. They simply watch less television."
I would agree with this artical, because since being connected to the internet my live has become more sociable. This is because I have made many new friends in places such as chat rooms and MSN, then there is this place (heaven on the internet). I now have friends in different countries, and have/am meeting some of them (great when you go on holiday because you have a free place to stay and personal tour guide).
Also I do watch alot less television, partly because these days there is sooo much crap on it, I can find more intresting things to do on the Internet. Weather it being interacting with other Internet users, surfing intresting sites or playing games. Surfing the Internet has also helped teach me things, so I am better educated now than I was in certain areas :). If it wasnt for useful websites, I wouldnt of built my own computer, and continued making/repairing them for other people (thus better paid).
What do you think? Are you friendless, I never was before I started on the Internet now I just have more. Do you watch less talevision? Are you more sociable? Post your coments here.
"FAR from being friendless nerds, Internet users lead more sociable lives than non-surfers. A survey of 2500 randomly selected Britons revealed that people who go online tend to be better paid and better educated than those who don't. They are also more likely to go be regular churchgoers and to belong to a community group or voluntary organisation. There is a huge divide bebtween those who surf and those who don't, says Andrew Oswald at Warwick University, who carried out the study. Contray to popular opinion, surfers dont spend their days slouched over a computer, he says. They simply watch less television."
I would agree with this artical, because since being connected to the internet my live has become more sociable. This is because I have made many new friends in places such as chat rooms and MSN, then there is this place (heaven on the internet). I now have friends in different countries, and have/am meeting some of them (great when you go on holiday because you have a free place to stay and personal tour guide).
Also I do watch alot less television, partly because these days there is sooo much crap on it, I can find more intresting things to do on the Internet. Weather it being interacting with other Internet users, surfing intresting sites or playing games. Surfing the Internet has also helped teach me things, so I am better educated now than I was in certain areas :). If it wasnt for useful websites, I wouldnt of built my own computer, and continued making/repairing them for other people (thus better paid).
What do you think? Are you friendless, I never was before I started on the Internet now I just have more. Do you watch less talevision? Are you more sociable? Post your coments here.
I have made around 100 new friends over the last 606 days, which is ever since I joined this website.
Surely this means I'm more sociable??
Surely this means I'm more sociable??
I wouldn't define internet users as geeks, I thought that term was reserved for members of science clubs, physics students, chess players or a combination of all 3.
The word Geek means a studip or ineffectual person.
Alot of people think that people who use the internet are computers are ineffectual because they always sit at their computers! But the reason I used the word geek was because it got you to read it and that was what the artical was called.
Alot of people think that people who use the internet are computers are ineffectual because they always sit at their computers! But the reason I used the word geek was because it got you to read it and that was what the artical was called.
Ant wrote:
> I have made around 100 new friends over the last 606 days, which is ever since I
> joined this website.
Surely this means I'm more sociable??
that depends if you class them as real friends or not
> I have made around 100 new friends over the last 606 days, which is ever since I
> joined this website.
Surely this means I'm more sociable??
that depends if you class them as real friends or not
I am labelled a Geek at school, because of my appearence. I wear glasses, am short and not exactly an oil painting. Here is the definition of Geek:
geek (gk)
n. Slang
A person regarded as foolish, inept, or clumsy.
A person who is single-minded or accomplished in scientific or technical pursuits but is felt to be socially inept.
A carnival performer whose show consists of bizarre acts, such as biting the head off a live chicken.
A freak is:
freak2 (frk)
n.
A fleck or streak of color.
tr.v. freaked, freak·ing, freaks
To speckle or streak with color: “the white Pink, and the Pansy freaked with jet” (John Milton).
geek (gk)
n. Slang
A person regarded as foolish, inept, or clumsy.
A person who is single-minded or accomplished in scientific or technical pursuits but is felt to be socially inept.
A carnival performer whose show consists of bizarre acts, such as biting the head off a live chicken.
A freak is:
freak2 (frk)
n.
A fleck or streak of color.
tr.v. freaked, freak·ing, freaks
To speckle or streak with color: “the white Pink, and the Pansy freaked with jet” (John Milton).
To be known as 'cool' at my school, you have to do one of two things:-
1)Smoke
2)Twag (and when you do go, don't do any work)
But in the future all the supposed 'geeks and freaks' will be driving around in Ferrari's whilst the 'cool' kids are begging on the street.
1)Smoke
2)Twag (and when you do go, don't do any work)
But in the future all the supposed 'geeks and freaks' will be driving around in Ferrari's whilst the 'cool' kids are begging on the street.
"surfers dont spend their days slouched over a computer, he says. They simply watch less television."
Yup. Problem is, nobody wants to listen, because their own views on the subject are far better than some bloke with a degree's.
Yup. Problem is, nobody wants to listen, because their own views on the subject are far better than some bloke with a degree's.
Grix Thraves wrote:
> "surfers dont spend their days slouched over a computer, he says. They
> simply watch less television."
Yup. Problem is, nobody wants to listen,
> because their own views on the subject are far better than some bloke with a
> degree's.
Very well put Grix. At my school, it appears the dumber you are, the more popular you are, which apparently makes me on the Z list for popularity. If people call me a "boff" or a "boffin" or whatever the tripe is, I simple reply with "Well, at least I'm basically guaranteed a decent job". I thought I was the only person in the world with this logic, but someone else in my class, who is popular and quite smart (yes, a contradiction of the classing system!), agrees with me. I said "Well, at least I'm basically guaranteed a decent job" to one of my friends and he replied with "Well, what if they become a footballer or something?". The chances of someone in my class - no, my school becoming a professional footballer and getting Micheal Owen-esque wages are slim at best. So, I say screw school, screw the people that can't be bothered to work, screw popular people, screw bullies and screw anyone that doesn't like me.
Firebalt.
> "surfers dont spend their days slouched over a computer, he says. They
> simply watch less television."
Yup. Problem is, nobody wants to listen,
> because their own views on the subject are far better than some bloke with a
> degree's.
Very well put Grix. At my school, it appears the dumber you are, the more popular you are, which apparently makes me on the Z list for popularity. If people call me a "boff" or a "boffin" or whatever the tripe is, I simple reply with "Well, at least I'm basically guaranteed a decent job". I thought I was the only person in the world with this logic, but someone else in my class, who is popular and quite smart (yes, a contradiction of the classing system!), agrees with me. I said "Well, at least I'm basically guaranteed a decent job" to one of my friends and he replied with "Well, what if they become a footballer or something?". The chances of someone in my class - no, my school becoming a professional footballer and getting Micheal Owen-esque wages are slim at best. So, I say screw school, screw the people that can't be bothered to work, screw popular people, screw bullies and screw anyone that doesn't like me.
Firebalt.
hah, boffin, I haven't heard that word since the 80's!
hm, labels are great aren't they. are Star Trek fan geeks because of their fanatical study of the series then? Most of them seem to get labelled as such. Labels are just the less adept public's way of dealing with a subject they know less about and therefore feel less comfortable discussing.
hm, labels are great aren't they. are Star Trek fan geeks because of their fanatical study of the series then? Most of them seem to get labelled as such. Labels are just the less adept public's way of dealing with a subject they know less about and therefore feel less comfortable discussing.