Study Says Wasting Time Online Is Actually Good For Kids

[ffxfriek]

Finally, some good press for games.

secdonded

 

[Copter400]

You can't stop the porn machine from rolling.

Most surreal. Sentence. Ever.

 

[Fenring]

Cool.

 

[zoozilla]

I love the Internet.

And I think it loves me, too.

Aw, Internet. You're too kind.

 

[Zer_]

Wasting time on Wikipedia... I learned a lot on that in the recent years.

 

[Sewblon]

It's kind of scary to know that adults are just now figuring out what we in generation Y knew all along.

 

[Neosage]

Hah. Win. Unsurprisingly I agree with them, the internet pretty much raised me from 12. 'Twas like a Father to me. A...very disturbed and often quite scary father anyway.

A pretty damn sexy father, wait I think I would prefer to call it mother.

 

[Divinegon]

Yes, I pretty much can see this side of the coin of the Internetz and not the other side of the coin, aka, 4-chan. I bet they didn't take /b/ into account in their study.

 

[Gahars]

Glad to hear all those years weren't wasted after all

 

[Xelioth]

yeah, this wasn't obvious at all.

look at any given online community and you can very easily see people maturing from "trolls" to "regulars"

I learned how to act around others through an online message board as well FAR more than I ever did in High School (high school is full of immaturity, after all. internet communities that last for long periods of time tend to have some maturity sprinkled in (and yes, I'm aware of 4chan )).

obviously you can't exist on computer alone, but it's definitely a good thing. why did it take scientists to figure this out?

 

[Seann]

Hah. Win. Unsurprisingly I agree with them, the internet pretty much raised me from 12. 'Twas like a Father to me. A...very disturbed and often quite scary father anyway.

The internet was more like a really cool older brother to me. Giving me a virus, and then informing me how to get rid of it. Or those silly little videos where it asks you to watch closely and then something pops up and screams at you. Introducing me to the wonderful world of por.... errr... gaming...

*sigh* Gooood times...

 

[dthree]

She added that the opportunity to "take a deep dive into a subject" often resulted in the acquisition of knowledge beyond the original topic. "In one of my own case studies around fans of Japanese animations, some kids got involved in different video production groups or online discussion groups," she continued. "They picked up things like the Japanese language or some fairly esoteric knowledge around video, or coding or editing."

Notice they either gloss over the fact that the "esoteric video knowledge" is largely driven by pirated video, or they are completely oblivious to it. I found that rather funny.

However, I am aware that the fansub community diving deep into both the language knowledge as well as the video knowledge, so its not all piracy-driven.

 

[TsunamiWombat]

Lies! All Lies! Anything new that I don't understand has to be bad for my children because the world hasn't changed in the 30 years it's been since I was 15!

 

[reaper_2k9]

I think its a good thing, it allows kids to communicate with others across the world allowing them to learn about other people cultures and countries.

 

[TsunamiWombat]

I think its a good thing, it allows kids to communicate with others across the world allowing them to learn about other people cultures and countries.

We don't need other peoples countries! The United States i-okay I can't take the satire any further. Yeah, I was being sarcastic of course.

Sweet, nice to know people are finally figuring out the internet generation is a hundred times better equipped for the business world then the previous.

 

[crimsondynamics]

It just goes to show that wasting time online isn't a waste of time at all.