I agree that the SNR has dropped, or is about to drop, below an acceptable level for the tech-non-savvy. On the other hand, said SNR also changes from person to person, and while it might have reached the non-negotiable point for those who do have the tools and knowhow to combat them a wwhile ago, maybe it still hasn't gotten to the same point for those that are willing to accept it as a pfact of life.
For me, whose main brush with pop-ups are limited to when I visit my spambait web mail site and half.com---and yet I can surf expansively and get quite a bit done on the WWW, and whose e-mail, while getting spam, gets nowhere near the 12-to-1 you quoted (I guess I'm lucky), the SNR is still rather high. I have this vision that in the worst case scenario, if a large number of people leave as they have flocked online, there is still going to be the core who will exchange opinion and information pretty much the same way they have since the early 80s. This will not be the desirable outcome---The Internet could free minds, and in that case it will not have the chance to---
...but, come to think of it, everyone who's experienced the mind-broadening effect of the Internet were people who were prepared and willing to, anyway.
I would like to be not social Darwinist, but I can't seem to get away from it in this instance.
I do not intend to stop fighting against spam and popups, for the record. I still scream "Mozilla" to whoever I can, forex.
Hmmm.
Anyway, this was a very thoguht-provoking entry. Mind if I link it from my own jounral, so that some of the people on my friends list might also get to it?
Got to try to get a nap as soon as I describe this morning's excitement, so I don't know when I'll get to properly responding to comments, but wanted to throw this out quickly:
"Mind if I link it from my own jounral, so that some of the people on my friends list might also get to it?"
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I agree that the SNR has dropped, or is about to drop, below an acceptable level for the tech-non-savvy. On the other hand, said SNR also changes from person to person, and while it might have reached the non-negotiable point for those who do have the tools and knowhow to combat them a wwhile ago, maybe it still hasn't gotten to the same point for those that are willing to accept it as a pfact of life.
For me, whose main brush with pop-ups are limited to when I visit my spambait web mail site and half.com---and yet I can surf expansively and get quite a bit done on the WWW, and whose e-mail, while getting spam, gets nowhere near the 12-to-1 you quoted (I guess I'm lucky), the SNR is still rather high. I have this vision that in the worst case scenario, if a large number of people leave as they have flocked online, there is still going to be the core who will exchange opinion and information pretty much the same way they have since the early 80s. This will not be the desirable outcome---The Internet could free minds, and in that case it will not have the chance to---
...but, come to think of it, everyone who's experienced the mind-broadening effect of the Internet were people who were prepared and willing to, anyway.
I would like to be not social Darwinist, but I can't seem to get away from it in this instance.
I do not intend to stop fighting against spam and popups, for the record. I still scream "Mozilla" to whoever I can, forex.
Hmmm.
Anyway, this was a very thoguht-provoking entry. Mind if I link it from my own jounral, so that some of the people on my friends list might also get to it?
(no subject)
"Mind if I link it from my own jounral, so that some of the people on my friends list might also get to it?"
Of course I don't mind -- link away.