Do you ever just get sick of the internet?

[DWSmith]

I don't mean to be whining but it gets a bit tiresome to go to the interscreen and do a giggle search only to see a bunch of unrelated garbage pop up on the result screen.

Most of the time social networking sites stink at best.

Maybe I'm just old, tired, in a mood, all three, or maybe I'm right.

Glad it's Friday. I need the rest.

Have a good weekend!

[rary]

Now that a question that I find hard to answer, if I need find information about something and go on to the internet to get it I am quite prepared to quickly scan through the garbage that may come up first to find what I want, I am not that good on a computer and don't expect it to give me answers strait away, and accept all the dross that may come along while searching for answers to any question, compared with going to a library and searching through books the garbage is quite acceptable.
As for social networking the Vine is the only site I use, as you may have noticed I was missing for a time recently, and that was due to me thinking that possibly I was contributing to the Vine becoming simply a chat site, yet during that spell away I was on regularly to fallow what was happening, and found even the chat threads contributed to gardening knowledge, and a number contributors were asking where I was, now they don't know me personally, yet we're concerned for my well-being that to me makes this site different from other social network sites, there is not a lot of back biting allowed on here, folk trying to peddle goods are stopped, but they tolerate old coggers like putting in my two penny's worth, (I can't afford more) I have never tried any other sites, but from reports I have read and things I have heard I don't want to, so it may be I am like you old ( no VC I am not really) tired and Moody, but then tomorrow I will feel different Goodnight

[Nicos]

I do a fair bit of research on t'internet and yep, stuff does come up which I'm not interested in...
But....
I grew up in a time when the only other places to do research was in my local library.
If they didn't have the right books I either had to order them or cycle/catch a bus to a larger library.
Yes we had a dictionary, a Thesorus and the full set of Encyclopedia Brittanica but often that wasn't enough.
Trawling through drivel on t'internet may be frustrating but waaaaay less time consuming
I suppose I have come to accept the drivel as the flip side of having so much info at my fingertips.

[Yasai]

I was telling my nephew that I chose which university to go to by going to the local library and trawling through a bunch of prospectuses. He looked at me as if he was waiting for a punchline to a joke, lol. I love the internet for research purposes. I am glad, though, that social media was not around when I was growing up... but that's another story.

[bramble]

I am an avid reader snd a regular visitor to the library but I couldnt imagine life now without the internet.
Invariably, a load of rubbish will appear when you try to google something but, in among all the rubbish will be the snswer to your question.
I think its a wonderful facility, and I am old.

[Cadalot]

What I hate is that if you looked at something in particular you are presented with related stuff long after the moment has gone and you have moved on to something else

[chris_m]

What I hate is that if you looked at something in particular you are presented with related stuff long after the moment has gone and you have moved on to something else

You must be using a different version of the internet to me, then

The only place that I get stuff "offered" based upon what I have looked at before is on Amazon.

[Thelma Sanders]

I hate it that you can't restrict the search to ignore words you don't want.
So you get lots of results for what they want to search for (and advertise) rather than what you actually want to look for.
*sigh*

[veggiechicken]

If you use Goggle, there's an Advanced Search option in Settings that lets you exclude some words etc.

[Chestnut]

I agree, there are some aspects of the internet which I have never understood the attraction, and I choose not to use (eg social networking) , just about tolerate (video adverts), or actively object to.
However, I am also old enough to remember life before the internet/email, and I do really appreciate the speed with which I can now access information - particularly the quirkier stuff!
G@@gle search and online purchase of a pdf document is soooo much easier than booking annual leave and a return train journey to specialist library in London - or an international inter-library loan. Most only took a month or two, but I do remember Dad had one item Finally reach his local library 17 years after he requested it(!). I should explain that this is no criticism of the library service, but a great compliment to the diligence and persistence of our local branch librarian - it was a particularly rare one, only 4 surviving copies in the world, and the copy they managed to obtain came from a small town which was at the time behind the 'iron curtain'!

[Potstubsdustbins]

I have a love hate relationship with the internet.

I love the speed of e-mail both for business and for family.

I have only two sites I usually visit the Vine and one other about old Nottingham, both very different in character but both informative and friendly.

I hate the way my thoughts can be tracked. I am about to buy a new van (yes VC another one) so have been conduction searches for prices, ply lining racking etc, for the next week google insures I get adverts for the same even here on the Vine.

[DWSmith]

In no way would I want to eliminate the internet but it would certainly be nice to change some of it. Love/Hate relationship describes it quite nicely. Thanks Potstubsdustbins!

I love the good stuff on youtube. Lots of educational stuff. Honestly, I've learned so much from youtube that it's about 95% of what I use the internet for. But then there's the trashy stuff.

I've joined and dropped facebook so many times I can't remember. I'm a member there now but I almost never post anything. I just look at what my relatives post. It helps me to keep up a little bit better with some relatives. Sometimes what they post is disturbing.

Email is valuable until I see all the stuff in the junk folder. Amazing what I get there.

I've thought about just dropping off the internet but it would be like throwing out the baby with the bath water.

[veggiechicken]

Love books but the Internet is like Speed reading.

[JanieB]

Since my OH died I often join some friends on holiday. The male half has a go at me every time because I take my iPad with me. His gripe is as he sees it that I can't resist being in touch with my family for a day. The reality is that it saves me a lot of weight in my luggage and I can read today's news, not buy a paper that's a day or two old.

My iPad on holiday is my newspaper, my book, my crossword. I would do all of these on holiday anyway but it saves money and weight.

[rary]

^^^^^ When I go on holiday I like to read books, and try to avoid any internet communication, and I never buy papers while on holiday, and if you are abroad you can always leave any books you have read and it gives you more room for alcohol