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Name: Keno
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Subject: Are you online too much?? (NSC)
Date: Friday, May 2, 2008
Time: 4:55:32 PM
Remote Address: 66.243.196.97
Message ID: 229878
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Thread ID: 229878
I found this bit I'm coping below today while reading the news online. This is ridiculous! They put down those of us who spend time online - yet they get the word out about all of this - online!
I do understand that a few might spend too much time online, and there are some days when I'm working that I wish I wasn't online and outdoors instead. But, I make most of my living now online, and I have found so many of my friends - you Gassers, on-line. But that don't mean I don't go outside - or that none of you do, too. I go on a long hike once a day. I usually spend almost my entire Saturdays outside - either up in the mountains or swimming and soaking at the hot springs. I love the outdoors and would rather be outside than indoors even when it is snowing out. But I do enjoy my time when I am inside online, too.
Now I do understand the deal with TV, it is a brain waster most of the time and why I watch little of it. But online is different than TV, big time, you can and do learn things, can and do meet interesting people, and I don't see anything wrong and no need to having a day where all of us boycott our computers, as they are calling for. If May 3 wasn't on a Saturday this year I would make it a point to stay on line all day just to say fuck you to these people. But I'm not changing my plans for them, Saturday is my one day where I spend my least amount of time online, usually Saturday thru Sunday Nite I'm off line - until late Sunday Nite, when I return here to set the new polls.
So how about you Gassers, do you think you spend too much time online? Maybe I could get a poll question out of this??
Here is the article......
Shutdown Day advocates say go offline, get outside
TORONTO (Reuters Life!) - Tune out, turn off and get away from addictive electronics for 24 hours on May 3 and enjoy the outdoors.
That's the message from organizers of the second annual global Shutdown Day who say using computers, televisions and electronic gadgets is having a negative impact on society.
"People are failing to socialize with each other and they are becoming outcasts, they are becoming more and more introverted," said Montreal-based Shutdown Day co-founder Ashutosh Rajekar in an interview.
Last year the group received 50,000 pledges worldwide on their website http://www.shutdownday.org/ from people who said they would not use electronic gadgets for a day. So far this year, almost 12,000 have committed to going 24 hours without using a computer.
The group plans to clean up parks and plant trees on Shutdown Day in the Montreal area, but they hope advocates of the event will organize a variety of events around the world.
"It's an exercise in spreading awareness, so the first few times it's going to be a very new experience for people who've never been away from their computer, and they will hopefully realize it's not such a dangerous thing," Rajekar said.
The 29-year-old MBA student at McGill University works as a file systems architect for high-performance computing products. Last year, along with colleague Denis Bystrov, a software developer, and some friends, they came to the conclusion they were spending too much time in front of their computer screens.
They decided to hold Shutdown Day as a challenge to see how many people could go without a computer for an entire day.
Rajekar took up landscape photography in his spare time and Bystrov started playing soccer, fishing and cooking.
"We are not anarchists," Rajekar said, explaining that the group doesn't oppose practical computer use for such things as operating power plants or completing school assignments.
But if people are using computers to waste time on social networking sites or trolling the Internet and "basically finding an excuse not to socialize, then we believe things are not going well," he said.
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