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Whaddya say about the new generation being grown up with internet from a young age? Im only starting to see how it can be bad….so why do parentslwt their 10 year olds have gmail accounts and watch the newest episode on youtube?????
Because internet is also bad for adult generations, and we we have to abide by the famous adage:- “Preach what you practice”.
Define internet!
Do you mean paying for things with plastic cards, or increasingly via a cell phone, so much that paper money and coins are increasingly for collectors, not shopping? I doubt that’s what you object to.
Do you mean the possibility of a hospital to access your medical records held elsewhere before they give you a fatal dose of a drug you are allergic to? I doubt that’s the problem.
Probably you object to use of graphic browsers to see “inappropriate” images – though in all fairness, people found ways to find inappropriate images long before there were computers, or photographs. Some of the oldest man-made objects known appear to be pornographic (and if you hold by our Torah as an historical document, that should not be a surprise).
However the increasing trend of younger people to get information in short bursts, with a high graphic content, rather than from reading and understanding texts is a real problem. Since frum Jews spend a lot of time pouring over documents, we’ll probably be the last ones with decent reading skills.
Most parents have no idea of the dangers of the Internet. That’s all.
having heard some yeshivish people talking about their dates, i think many of them could benefit from watching a few episodes of “see dating.”
I think the internet is very, very good.
One shudders to think how much more boring my life would be without it.
I thank Hashem for the internet.
akuperma: Everything you said was 100 percent spot on.
With one minor exception:
Since frum Jews spend a lot of time pouring over documents, we’ll probably be the last ones with decent reading skills.
I’m sure you meant “poring.” I hope you meant “poring.” Please tell me you meant “poring.”
I think there are both pros and cons to the internet. I don’t agree with those who say it is only bad because I think it is very useful and helpful in many ways. I don’t agree with those who say it is only good because it has many pitfalls that are easy to fall prey to.
The Internet can be a vehicle for equally great sins and mitzvot- up to the user to decide how to use it and his/her trust level of him/herself.
Gd put the Internet and global media in the world so that everyone can praise hashem instantly around the world when mashiach comes. The messiah YouTube video will get a billion hits.
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