It's unfair how if someone spends 5 hours reading a book, people say they're smart, but if someone spend 5 hours on the Internet, people say they're losers and that they need to get friends, amirite?

-13 It's unfair how if someone spends 5 hours reading a book, people say they're smart, but if someone spend 5 hours on the Internet, people say they're losers and that they need to get friends, amirite?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Because reading fosters imagination and knowledge. You can't tell me you will browse google those five hours looking for the LhC. Or something like that.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

What if I look at wikipedia?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Eh, same thing. I mean I guess that would be a different case, but who looks at wikipedia (not a great source) for five hours?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

When people say they've been on the computer, you can assume they were social networking, gaming or on a site like this.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Still, they're both a waste of time.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

If I find something interesting, yeah, I could read about it for hours.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

It all depends on what you're doing on the internet. It can be at least as great a learning tool as any book, but if you spent that 5 hours messing around on facebook and amirite, or looking at porn or youtube vids, etc... it's doubtful that you expanded your mind much. Not that there's anything wrong with that, sometimes; it just shouldn't be all you do.

by Anonymous 13 years ago