Re: GEN: LM_NET not "sad, lonely world in cyberspace"

[William Tarbi <wtarbi@GTE.NET>]

This whole thing is sort of depressing. Just visit some of the sites on the
net and you can get depressed...i.e.: the KKK site, or other white power
sites.  The trouble as I see it, is that most of the people using the net,
and complaining about it really don't know how to use the powerful tool they
have.  They get frustrated, and then depressed when the realize just how
little they really know.  <GRIN>

This story is beginning to sound like something Matt Drudge put on the net.
Matt Drudge is the guy who broke the Lewinski case after reading gossip on
the Net.  He is somewhat like Walter Winchell.  Now thats depressing!

Bill Tarbi
E.M. Cope Middle School
Redlands, CA
wtarbi@gte.net

Parva leves capiunt animas. - Ovid
(Small minds concern themselves with trifles)

-----Original Message-----
From: Ken Umbach <kumbach@UNLIMITED.NET>
To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU <LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>
Date: Monday, August 31, 1998 8:03 AM
Subject: Re: GEN: LM_NET not "sad, lonely world in cyberspace"


>Welllllll ... I do personally know people whose lives have been, shall we
>say, severely complicated (read: damaged) by online activities.  I will not
>name names, but these are first-hand acquaintances.
>
>By the same token, I know people (self included) who have found tremendous
>value in Internet activity and who have made valued acquaintances and
>friendships through Internet communications.  I emphatically include among
>that value and those friendships my involvement in LM_NET, but also much
>more beyond that.
>
>It is a pathetic commentary on the press that a statistically crapulous
(can
>I say that here?) report would get the sort of prominent play that it has.
>But their job is to sell newspapers, not necessarily to convey accurate
>information.
>
>Seeya ...
>
>Ken
>
>
>At 09:12 AM 8/31/98 EDT, you wrote:
>>Jo, et al:
>>
>>Yes, I did see the "disclaimer" re the statistical evidence, and
>>wondered about it -- esp. that the NYTimes still thought the
>...
>>BTW:  I suspect we've all met people who tell you they know
>>someone whose life was"ruined" by the internet, etc.
>>Turns out they never really can give you  names. . . .
>...
>--
>Kenneth W. Umbach, Ph.D., Policy Analyst, California Research Bureau,
>California State Library, 900 N Street, Suite 300, Sacramento, CA 95814
>E-mail: kumbach@unlimited.net (or kumbach@library.ca.gov)
>Phone: (voice) 916-653-6002 (fax) 916-654-5829
>Personal Web page and selected papers:
http://members.unlimited.net/~kumbach
>This message reflects my opinion, not that of my employer or anyone else.
>
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