Abstract: “The influence of the Internet on the life of a modern person. How the Internet affects people How the Internet affects people
The first thing to consider is the impact of the Internet on human health.
The Internet is human health.
Internet and vision.
In fact, it is not the Internet that badly affects vision, but the computer, but the Internet is definitely to blame for this. Let's look at the statistics of those whose vision deteriorates more.
This means that those users who communicate on the computer are more likely to worsen their vision. Such users communicate using the Internet, which means that the Internet negatively affects our vision. Vision deteriorates due to greater fatigue, when a person sits at a computer for a very long time and continuously, vision weakens. Also, vision deteriorates when reading from the monitor screen.
Computer and bad health.
· A person working at a computer for a long time must maintain a relatively immobile position, which negatively affects the spine and blood circulation throughout the body (blood stasis). Blood stasis is especially pronounced at the level of the pelvic organs and limbs. With prolonged disturbances of blood circulation, the nutrition of tissues is disturbed and the walls of blood vessels are damaged, which in turn leads to their irreversible expansion. Such vasodilation is observed, for example, with hemorrhoids.
Long work on the keyboard leads to overstrain of the joints of the hand and muscles of the forearm.
· Working at a computer involves the processing of a large amount of information and constant concentration of attention, therefore, with prolonged work at a computer, mental fatigue and impaired attention often develop.
A person working at a computer is forced to make decisions all the time, on which the efficiency of his work depends. Sometimes it is quite difficult to predict the consequences of a particular step (especially against the background of chronic fatigue). Therefore, prolonged work at the computer is often the cause of chronic stress. Note that the need to process a large amount of heterogeneous (and mostly unnecessary information) also leads to the development of stress.
· Increasingly, there are reports of computer addiction. Indeed, long-term work at the computer, surfing the Internet and playing computer games can cause such mental disorders.
· Working at a computer often absorbs all the attention of a working person, and therefore, such people often neglect normal nutrition and work from hand to mouth all day. Improper nutrition leads not only to disruption of the digestive tract, but also to the occurrence of mineral and vitamin deficiencies. It is known that not a lack of vitamins and minerals negatively affects the process of metabolism in the body, which leads to a decrease in the intellectual abilities of a person. Reduced work efficiency, which in turn causes the need to spend even more time at the computer. Thus, a kind of "vicious circle" is formed, in which prolonged work at the computer is the starting point that determines all subsequent violations.
This is directly related to the Internet, because a person will spend more time at a computer only when he is on the Internet, a person will absorb a large amount of information, communication, and he will lose track of time, and health will deteriorate every minute.
The Internet is an addiction.
Computer addiction is no less dangerous than drug addiction, as it leads to a significant violation of adaptation in society (inability to work, inability to start a family or simply serve oneself).
Internet addiction is a mental disorder, an obsessive desire to connect to the Internet and a painful inability to disconnect from the Internet in time. Internet addiction is a widely discussed issue, but its status is still at an unofficial level: the disorder is not included in the official DSM-IV classification of diseases.
Researchers cite various criteria by which you can judge Internet addiction. So, Kimberly Young gives four signs:
· Obsessive desire to check e-mail.
· Constant desire for the next access to the Internet.
Complaints from others that a person spends too much time on the Internet.
Complaints from others that a person spends too much money on the Internet.
A more detailed system of criteria is given by Ivan Goldberg. In his opinion, Internet addiction can be stated if there are 3 of the following points:
· The amount of time that you need to spend on the Internet in order to achieve satisfaction (sometimes the feeling of pleasure from communication in the network borders on euphoria) increases markedly.
· If a person does not increase the amount of time he spends on the Internet, the effect is markedly reduced.
· The user makes attempts to abandon the Internet, or at least spend less time on it.
The termination or reduction of time spent on the Internet leads the user to poor health, which develops over several days to a month and is expressed by two or more factors:
1. Emotional and motor excitement
2. Alarm
3. Obsessive thoughts about what is happening on the Internet right now
4. Fantasies and dreams about the Internet
5. Arbitrary or involuntary movements of the fingers, reminiscent of typing on a keyboard.
Now you will read some complete nonsense. You yourself are to blame. The Internet is full of all sorts of nonsense a little less than completely. There was nothing to climb on all sorts of other people's blogs or, even worse, subscribe.
So I will tell you about the true nature of the Web. You will find out which demon you feed, along with a billion others, with your mana. But it's' too late!
A brief summary of the article in four theses:
- The web seeks to absorb and digest all the information flows of mankind.
- The web engulfs people.
- The web simplifies people.
- The web affects social institutions.
The internet is such a thing...
No, bad. It is bad to call phenomena "things". Let's define a small, not too correct, but loved by different marginals such as Pereslegins, the concept: information and energy object. Comrades from Pereslegin's school use this phrase to refer to various social phenomena, such as, for example, bureaucratic machines. Usually, when exploring them, they seek to separate the object from the people-subjects that feed it. It is clear that the bureaucratic machine will disappear in an instant if the bureaucrats that make it up are removed. In much the same way that a cloud of gas disappears, remove the molecules that make it up. But it is inconvenient for physicists to study molecules separately, and it is inconvenient for sociologists and info-objectologists to study separately people who support the “life” of some kind of superhuman formation. So the definition is:
Information object- information that does not depend on the carrier and develops according to its own laws, residing in the information space.
Information and energy an object, respectively, is such an information object that feeds on the energy of the carrier. The word “energy” is used here in a psychological sense, as “the life force of people”, that is, that complexly measurable substance that lives in the souls of each of us, which helps to move, be creative and think that life is not so meaningless. Vryat whether this energy can be measured in joules, but the word has settled. Personally, I prefer the words Mana, Prana or Qi. But not to call our objects information-manic? Let there be energy.
Understand what the information space is, please, yourself. Not small, obvious things to explain to you. You do not live in a forest, but in that very information space, by the way, and this space is the nerve of a powerful technosphere, reliably protecting us all from the horrors of wild nature.
Anew. Thesis #1
The Internet seeks to absorb and digest all the information flows of mankind.
The Internet is a complex of many information and energy objects that has developed on the basis of known technologies and is the main consumer of their capabilities, connected into a single super-object by a common desire. The Internet seeks to absorb and digest all the information flows of mankind. And this is the most important thing to know about him.
This desire seems to be embedded in the very essence of the World Wide Web. Each individual member of the Network, each site, search engine, blog, may not be aware of the goal of information capture of the world. Google collects statistics of visits, such as to more accurately show ads to the visitor - this is true. But the objective reason why it is beneficial for Google not to sell the search service for money or places in the top impressions, or do something else like that, but it is beneficial to collect as much information as possible and process it as accurately as possible in order to learn as much as possible about visitors its great directory of links - in the deepest essence of the Internet universe.
All major Web sites have the goal of collecting, processing, doing something with some information, and the most valuable information is social, because nothing excites a person more than himself. Strain your mind, think about what else from the information flows of civilization that is not captured by the Network? If you figure out, at the same time, how to capture these streams, you will be given all the benefits. You will become the founder of a startup, a useful person. The world will reward you.
Because the Internet is not just some kind of naked desire to grab everything. Internet is strength. This is the most important, the most valuable, the most complex thing created by mankind in the first half of the twenty-first century. You see, energy is not taken from nothing. Christianity, the ancient great IEO, whose technological basis was a certain doctrine, and whose goal was the salvation (in the Christian sense) of all human souls, absorbed the energy of the agony of Rome, and thanks to it became what we know it to be. The Internet, at its birth, absorbed the energy of the agony of the great utopian projects of the twentieth century. It took two wars - the Second and the Cold War - to develop computer technology to the level when the Net became possible, and it also took the death of the Soviet Union, in order to ride on the wave of euphoria of liberation from the horror of nuclear missiles, on the wave of brilliant, perfectly trained mathematical emigrants from the former USSR, creative energy surged like a wave, filling the emerging technology with meaning. Thus the Web was born.
Again. This is the most important thing written here. The Internet is a force united by the main desire to absorb and digest all the information flows of mankind. Everything follows from this.
Thesis №2
Man is the main source of information in human society. The information volume of everything that we invent and imagine, say and do, many times exceeds the information volume generated by forces acting on humanity from the outside, ranging from bird flights to solar flares. Of course, I mean only those natural phenomena that one of the people notices. Perhaps the volume of unnoticed phenomena is an order of magnitude higher, who knows? In any case, we all have approximately the same sky above our heads, and in order not to stare at it all our lives, we ourselves have to saturate the technosphere with information.
In this way, Thesis №2
The web engulfs people.
Since man is the main source of information within humanity, the main subtask of the Web as a living and purposeful phenomenon is to train people who contact it in such a way that they would redirect information flows through it.
The average person thinks in vain about the freedom and independence of his mighty mind. It is very easy to train us. Every psychologist knows what an absurdly huge influence children's fears have. As a child, a little boy was bitten by a dog. He grew up, became a huge fat uncle, and could finish off three mutts with one foot without much straining - but a trained childish fear makes him cross the road at the sight of a shaggy homeless dog wallowing in the dust. The web doesn't bite us like a dog. On the contrary, she unfolds before us her untold riches, offers a thousand entertainments, and in the end firmly puts us on an endorphin needle. Plants children stronger, of course. The web needs children, they will become adults, and maybe give it their whole lives. Part of life will be given without question. It is more pleasant to communicate through the Network. You can find out faster on the web. Everything is on the web. The Internet cannot be boring. The network will accept you for who you are. Your friends will support you. They will like you. They will like your work. They will like your pictures and your taste for reprinting jokes. And if you don't want to, you'll close yourself off from all your friends. Isn't that all you need?
Scary? So we have not yet reached the third thesis.
Thesis №3
The web simplifies people.
As you can see from thesis number 1, the most important thing in all this little reflection, the Network seeks not only to absorb, but also to digest all the information flows in the world. Digestion is very important. It means to understand, to make a part of yourself, not just some kind of information in the sense of a stream of bytes, but meaningful meta-data that can be used further. For example, how Google sells collects statistics for advertising. They really strive to make the machine understand what all these words entered into the search engine mean to the user. The whole essence of Google is hidden in this understanding. Unfortunately, along with the complication of algorithms for processing data streams by machines, there is also a downside. The fact is that in order to better understand what people want, it is not necessary to complicate the understanding. You can simplify the people themselves.
I remind you, thesis number 2. We are excellently trained. Do you know why there is no dislike button on Facebook? It would complicate the communication model. From the point of view of the Web, introducing interface entities that make the masses think at least about the choice between two buttons is a mistake. And in general, how are you going to build a metric for the popularity of posts to complete feeds if the like-dislike space is two-dimensional? Have you thought about it mathematically? Here on Facebook they thought, and decided - no need.
Of course, this is an extreme example. Each portal chooses whether to make tree-like comments, or a self-collecting feed, or dislikes. There may be different approaches for different audiences. Somewhere in Habré, information about dislikes suddenly acquires value for the system. Somewhere in LiveJournal, tree-like comments are the most important thing that is there, the main collector and application point of the information flow. But always and everywhere the system is subject to thesis No. 1. Always and everywhere there is the possibility of training the user. So, we, the users of the Net, developing our erudition, intellect, and so on, on the one hand, inevitably become simpler on the other.
I wanted to give examples now, so to speak, from personal experience, to touch on the scale of Tolstoy I am reading now, and other great people - but I decided that it was not worth it. Personal experience against the backdrop of statistics is not worth much. You can do it yourself, come up with examples of how a person who did not know the Internet has a more complex, more integral mind than you. How people you know with a complex and whole mind distance themselves from this source of knowledge, avoid prolonged contact with it, feeling the desire of the Network to understand and primitive them. Great minds don't stick well in the Web. It is terrible for me to understand how poor and primitive my Russian language is, how one-sidedly I touch the topic, how weak my erudite mind is. This is an inevitable disease of absorption by the Internet, partial dissolution in it, and I am glad that I have not yet sunk down to a pleasant, thoughtless click on the approval button in an endless feed of pictures and jokes, to the search for jokes and pictures to hem into the feed, to contribute. Yes, there is still room to fall. But this is false joy. To close the mind, something more than therapy is needed, because ten years on the Web are not in vain for a teenager who has become a young man - it is already difficult for me to do without. I can only cite myself as an example, against those whom I read not at the level of drafts on the Web. For a full-fledged mind, something more is needed, something that Leo Tolstoy had and that modern children with tablet computers in their hands do not have. There is no better way to convince than to appeal to the reader's personal experience - I'm sure you can do a good job of demonstrating the fact that the Web simplifies users without me. I just explained why this happens.
Thesis №4
The web affects social institutions.
As follows from the theory of power, every politician wants to know where the power is, and seeks to either take her side or lure her to his own. The power now, of course, is on the Internet. Remember, I wrote about the energy of the collapse of the Soviets? I then forgot to say about space expansion - it also slowed down due to the Network. I won’t say that this is bad - with advanced information technologies, it is easier and more pleasant to explore space, and delaying a lunar colony for several decades, in general, does not mean anything. Well, we will build in 2050 and not in 2000, as the science fiction writers wanted, so what. But we have the Web. The problem is different.
Politicians sense where the power is. And social institutions, starting, in fact, with the government, are controlled by politicians. Therefore, all the social institutions of the world, all education, health care, voting and governance - everything strives to make part of the Network part of itself. The surveillance of the mail by the special services, revealed by Snowden, is, in general, a small and harmless result of the interaction of politics and the web. All these stupid Russian laws restricting freedom of information are an allergic reaction to an information-energy virus that is creeping up on your information flows, unpleasantly controlling people, revealing an unpleasant truth. What seems really scary to me is the USE testing system.
You see, the thinking of children is simplified by the Internet (see thesis #3). I won't say that they are getting dumber - it would be incorrect to say that all the parameters of the multidimensional children's consciousness are getting worse. In a sense, the children of the Web are becoming freer and more erudite. But simplification, the formation of thinking and elementary behavioral reactions is easier to analyze - yes, this is an actual observed truth. And the USE, of course, contributes to the process. The USE was born as a reaction of the Russian Ministry of Education to modern trends, an attempt to move away from the experience of the Soviet Union and meet modern standards of high-quality world education.
What do you think dictates the fashion for these standards? Where is the power in the world? Who or what ultimately dictates the rules of the game to politicians, how to be in trend and keep up with progress?
Yes, you are absolutly right. Alas.
And the more predictable, algorithmically simpler the children's answers to the exam test, the more rigid the evaluation algorithms, the better from the point of view of the primitive machine that we trust the future. And do you now understand that the USE is only an indirect consequence, a small part of a great process?
Now let's talk about what to do. I outlined the essence. Probably, something is written naively or incorrectly, I hope that the grain of truth is true - after all, for many years I have been reflecting on the problem of the essence of the Internet and its impact on the user's soul. It would be a lie to say that everything that happens is evil; focusing on the problems, I barely touched on the positive aspects of the process, but meanwhile they are no less grandiose. In any case, we can't do anything. Of course, you can cut the wires, throw out the phone and go to live in a distant village where the Wi-Fi did not look. You may even save your soul by doing so. But staying here, with all the people, we will not throw our Network into a landfill. Let's see how it absorbs and digests many around us. What will the children of the Net become? It is very interesting.
I will only call for personal caution. You are on the Web. She wants to eat you.
The Internet, which has firmly entered our lives, as a fairly new, massive and large-scale phenomenon, cannot but reshape us to suit itself. There are many widespread opinions about how the Internet affects the human consciousness, and they vary from the idea of general stupefaction to the development of superpowers. What do psychologists tell us? How does the Internet really affect our minds?
It turns out that the hours spent on the net affect, first of all, our habits and abilities to remember and search for information within ourselves. What is this influence?
Firstly, psychologists say, the Internet information that we absorb during lunch breaks, short smoke breaks, or just for a momentary need is cut like a salad. The texts on the net are short, the thoughts in them are expressed concisely: read, swallowed - run on. And therefore, the expression “multi-bookaf”, which came out of the network and refers to it, perfectly reflects our slightly contemptuous reluctance to read something voluminous. For what? All the same, only the essence will remain in the head, the meaning that fits in five lines - quite enough to write on Twitter.
Secondly, when reading such small texts, we often do not pay due attention to them. As a rule, it takes us no more than five seconds to read the same status on the social network, and therefore we absorb information hastily, in parallel with other matters and not at the special time allotted for this, but between work, before negotiations or during lunch. As you know, doing a few things hastily, you do not do a single one well. Therefore, it is not clear how Caesar succeeded in one hundred simultaneous cases, and perhaps for this reason, employers block our access to social networks.
Thirdly, this very information, so short and easily accessible, becomes like a drug for us. We cannot live without access to the Internet, it seems to us that the Stone Age has returned especially for us, and while all other people lead a civilized life, we drag out a miserable existence, cut off from social networks, psychological tests, horoscopes, business advice and other things.
Fourth, we are replacing real communication with the Internet. It seems to us that since he gives us so much information, he is quite capable of replacing the interlocutor. That is why we often go to the Internet for advice, to strangers, replacing them with friends, mother and leader. And this is unfortunately. Once the world-famous Mark Zuckerberg “transferred the party to the network”, but modern psychologists insist on its return to real life! Where do we spend the most time? At work! That is why the psychological climate in the team is so important: communicate with colleagues - don't let the internet suck you in!
At the same time - and this is the fourth - the Internet creates only the illusion of communication. Changing the status on a social network, sending a tweet or a comment seems to us a live activity, and two or three messages written to a childhood friend found on the Internet are a real conversation. But is it so? Not at all.
Fifthly, the Internet is a kind of reserve for our brain. We know that you can always resort to it if necessary. So why bother and memorize something? The route can be viewed on maps, a small detail can be restored to memory using Wikipedia. All our knowledge is fragmentary and fragmentary, we do not analyze information, we simply absorb it, according to the requirements of the moment and nothing more. Is it good? I think no. This process goes on unconsciously for us, we do not even concentrate on it.
What assessment can be given to these conclusions? Psychologists say that all this simply exists and, apparently, this is an adequate reaction of mankind to the development of digital technologies. On the other hand, if the realization of all this gives us, rather, discomfort, then we are free to break the statistics! Of course, there is nowhere to work without the Internet, but personal communication is a completely different matter. Let's communicate more live, share impressions, meet more often. For work advice, turn to the manager, for help - to colleagues. Show photos to friends pasted into a paper album and read books. Then we are not afraid of any dents!
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We live in the era of the future! The speed of progress has become so great that things that seem fantastic today are already considered obsolete and backward tomorrow. And more and more the Internet absorbs our lives. Some social networks are worth something. You can correspond with friends and girlfriends who live a thousand miles away from us, get to know each other, show everyone your best photos, amuse your vanity with “likes”. A lot of cool groups and communities where you can chat on interests and learn a lot of new things without leaving your home, for every taste in social networks. You can't imagine a better means to diversify the gray everyday life for us, lovely ones.
Social networks began to appear already, approximately, since 1969. At first, people were united by professional interests and hobbies. Now the functions and capabilities of social networks have expanded greatly. The very first official network is Odnoklassniki, which was founded in 1995 and has been operating to this day. Odnoklassniki already has about 50 million users.
Imagine the scale!
Now for this wonderful entertainment and a computer is not needed. Everyone has trendy pocket gadgets for accessing the Internet, with heaps of all kinds of applications, for entertainment on the Internet, you can be online around the clock, and do not care about addiction. Stop! What addiction?
The fact is that many people are so immersed in the virtual world of online communication that they no longer imagine their lives without it. Sometimes this state comes to fanaticism. Users start spending money on paid social media services without realizing it. There are many reasons for this addiction: unfulfilled dreams, internal complexes, problems with communication. In virtuality, it is much easier to “draw” your fictional ideal image for other users, besides, social networks provide a certain security when communicating, which is not the case in real life.
Is the time of your "online" slowly and surely tending to infinity? Here main signs of Internet addiction:
1. You have many "friends" and hundreds of groups. You will not rest until you scroll through all the news to the end, put down all the likes, write comments on the new posted photos.
2. The lack of the Internet and the ability to access social networks can overshadow your vacation at sea, a picnic with friends in nature, make lectures at school unbearable.
3. You replace normal communication with virtual. On the street: “Hi, Masha !! Haven't seen you in years!!! Write to me in ** ntakte today, let's chat at least. Bye!
4. You become indifferent to old hobbies. If you used to love to surprise your relatives with culinary masterpieces, now you can’t even cook dumplings, because your colleague posted photos from the corporate party, and you urgently need to “comment them”.
5. You are "online" even to the detriment of precious hours of sleep. Although you perfectly understand that tomorrow unbearable workdays await you, because without enough sleep, you become irritable and very uncollected.
7. You add strangers as friends to feel part of society, to be one of the crowd.
8. Often you take interesting photos on purpose, only to post them on your web page.
Here are some important tips on how to get rid of Internet addiction:
1. The most important thing is to want to get rid of this addiction, to set a goal. Realize how much precious time you are wasting on this merciless and essentially useless "time-killing".
2. If possible, reduce the time spent in the network. If you nevertheless went there again, for example, just keep a correspondence, excluding all other "opportunities" of the social network: viewing photos, news, comments.
3. Switch to live communication. To meet with your old friends, "abandoned by you", but so close and loved.
4. In your free time, replace sitting online with another activity, such as reading books, which will also be useful before bed.
5. One of the reasons for addiction to social networks is the lack of positive emotions in life. Try to find something exciting and positive in real life: new hobbies, His Majesty shopping will always give you a charge of positive, travel and dating. And the main thing is to share these emotions with people directly replacing the dry "status" with a lively smile in the circle of relatives and friends!
6. If all these simple methods do not help, then you should consult a psychologist. After all, it is not always possible to cope with the problem of addiction on your own.
The idea of social networks is very interesting in itself. They are a means of communication, a source of information and a way to be heard, but, as you know, everything should be in moderation, and social networks should not replace our real life, but supplement it, making it more colorful.
Believe in yourself and you will succeed!
