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Originally Posted by nomadicfollower
By old I simply meant that you grew up without the internet and when it became more accessible you might have flocked to it. It just seemed to me that perhaps growing up without internet would harbor more positive attitudes about the web. The communitites I find here - which comprise the interweb - lack any....honesty, I guess (mainly a lack of true personality). Such a thing seldom corrupts those who've only been a part of it for the last 15 years or so, but those who are part of it and lack strong will power (majorities) will forget themselves -- scifi unintended.
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A good clarification. When I took typing in junior high we used typewriters. Having watched technology get easier to use, I've tended to embrace it for the ease it lets me do things I couldn't do in the past. It used to be that friends from across the planet were an extremely rare thing, for instance.
That said, I wonder where you find communities that are more honest or personal than on the net? Not that there isn't an infinite amount of bullshit online, but where in the flesh world is it any better? The traditional model for face to face communities is church, and if you want to talk about lack of honesty and personality, that's pretty much the extreme. Most of us on this board come from a background of seeking community around music scenes, and while the music is usually better than in church, it's otherwise pretty much just as bad.
The nice thing that the internet does for community is it takes geography out of the equation (which used to be the prime factor in community building). This doesn't fix the fact that people are not perfect, and the main drawback is that people have a protective layer of anonymity that makes them often behave worse than they would face to face. So there's give and take, but there always is.