Internet has been around for a while now and it has become a part and parcel of the lives of lots of people around the globe. It has made life easier and things are being done much faster. It has made the huge world into a small village through its connectivity and guess what few guys like me can't sustain without internet even for a single day.
But as every rose has a thorn, even the big guy internet has its lows. It can't be measured how badly internet is effecting us but there are a few things that are being killed and devastated by the growth of internet. A fifty of these things are listed in timesofIndia website. Here are a few to name:
The art of polite disagreement
Fear that you are the only person unmoved by a celebrity's death
Listening to an album all the way through
Sarah Palin
Punctuality
Ceefax/Teletext
Adolescent nerves at first porn purchase
Telephone directories
The myth of cat intelligence
Watches
Music stores
Letter writing/pen pals
Memory
Dead time
Photo albums and slide shows
Hoaxes and conspiracy theories
Watching television together
Authoritative reference works
The Innovations catalogue
Order forms in the back pages of books
Pic Visual
Via TOI
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