does the computer affect you in any way?

[cacian]

Just talking with someone about the changes in personality when one is faced with a screen with too much or too little on it and a keyboard they can or cannot manage properly?

A bit like a car has an affect on people's behaviour do you feel that the computer can aggravate or maybe not in the way you interact?

In other does the computer mold our personalities different from our realities?

Discuss.

[The Dilettante]

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/is-google-making-us-stupid/6868/

An interesting article about internet usage.

[JuniperWoolf]

My friend Tom once tried to right-click a sandwich to consume it after a fourteen-hour World of Warcraft binge.

[Revolte]

It made me a lazy, sex addicted, depressed alcoholic. It would be funny if it was a joke.

Oh and I now say LOL in real life. It's cute though.

[LizzzyBF]

After being a fairly obsessive Sims player for a few years, I quite often try to 'fast-forward' things when they get boring. Also, when I've lost something, I keep wanting to google its location :)

[Paulclem]

I had to stop playing Quake online because my wrist began to swell up... yes it was Quake online and not dodgy websites...yes I do have screen wipes but I hardly ever use them...no I've never fallen off the chair when "playing"...

I think using the computer has increased my text skimming and scanning abilities, which could possibly be a problem if a person never read texts in depth and balanced up their reading skills - though I've never heard of it being so.

[cacian]

My friend Tom once tried to right-click a sandwich to consume it after a fourteen-hour World of Warcraft binge.
humm...not good..must keep away from warcraft I say.

[cacian]

After being a fairly obsessive Sims player for a few years, I quite often try to 'fast-forward' things when they get boring. Also, when I've lost something, I keep wanting to google its location :)

I see....about loosing things you mean googling outside where you were after loosing stuff?! haha...:p

[Delta40]

I throw the white and yellow pages phone book in the recycle bin when they arrive on my doorstep now since having a computer.

[Helga]

my computer is very important to me, I turn it on the moment I wake up. I don't play any games (sometimes spider solitaire) and I don't have facebook but there are a few websites I visit, and stream.

I only just recently got a tv so it has been my source for news and tv for a long time.

[Revolte]

I had to stop playing Quake online because my wrist began to swell up... yes it was Quake online and not dodgy websites...yes I do have screen wipes but I hardly ever use them...no I've never fallen off the chair when "playing"...

I think using the computer has increased my text skimming and scanning abilities, which could possibly be a problem if a person never read texts in depth and balanced up their reading skills - though I've never heard of it being so.

There is a Quake online? Is it in that wonderfully fun early fps 2d lay out? Or did they take the Duke Nukem route and 3dify it?

[Helga]

OK now my computer is affecting me in a annoying way, I bought a USB thingy today to connect it to the tv and I can't do it. I suck at all this technology stuff, even the things that are supposed to be simple.

[Revolte]

OK now my computer is affecting me in a annoying way, I bought a USB thingy today to connect it to the tv and I can't do it. I suck at all this technology stuff, even the things that are supposed to be simple.

I've seen a lot of people with those problems, you're not alone in that one. I mean, now the TV works like a computer, and that's just weird. I still have a large sdtv. Maybe I'l upgrade for my birthday, I dunno.

[Paulclem]

There is a Quake online? Is it in that wonderfully fun early fps 2d lay out? Or did they take the Duke Nukem route and 3dify it?

It's multiplayer, so I guess it's 3-D. I really enjoyed it, particularly the railgun contests.

[Paulclem]

The computer has the habit of sucking me in and spitting me out again in the small hours.

I work and play on it every day.

[papayahed]

The computer has affected my ability to spell. I've noticed a sharp decline in my spelling ability.