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Nearly Half of U.S. 'Net Users Post Content
An anonymous reader copies and pastes: "WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Nearly half of U.S. Internet users have built Web pages, posted photos, written comments or otherwise added to the enormous variety of material available online, according to a report released on Sunday. The Pew Internet and American Life Project found that about 44 percent of the country's Internet users have created content for others to enjoy online." Don't read the blurb - cut straight to the study.
...half the trash comes from.
Who would post online? Not me!
Novel theory: Modern Man evolved from psychopath
With this post i can die happily knowing i have made a contribution to society.
Do posts made by AC trolls count?
there's about 800,000 users whose sole purpose seems to be to take that content down, one site at a time...
And sometimes we even turn on eachother.
or set up "Web cams" to allow others to see live pictures.
and judging from my email... at least half of that 44% is 18 year old HOT & HORNY Amsterdam teens!!!!
ps... wanna see my webcam? I'm waiting for you.... just go to--.....
According to the study, 44% of all internet users have contributed something of value to the content of the internet.
The other 56% argue about vi vs emacs.
Look at this site as an example, I'm sure for every Logged in poster there is a troll or lurker out there.
And the "Anonymous Coward" feature needs to stop!!
All users of this internet should be branded, tagged and monitored, lord knows what kind of garbage and filth they post online!! Mr. Goatse.xs has done irreperable harm to thousands of under 18 slashdot readers who are now terrified of working in the fine agriculteral industry and would rather now be shipped off to India to program shell scripts from the back of a yak. In fact it's these flamebait and troll posts that I feel directly responsible for the dot-bomb. How can any business survive when it's users drive away good-upstanding god-fearing republicans such as myself. Lord knows Mr. Bush has been very kind and forgiving to not cage every one of you up in that Guatanimo Bay place, freedom of speech my ass, cyber-terrorism is what it is!!
Don't you mean "Garbage In, Junk Out"? Oh...wait...that's GI JO...
:: slinks away ::
Nevermind.
The real question is, how much of the content is even worth existing?
Not the comment above, that's for certain.
Max
My god carries a hammer. Your god died nailed to a tree. Any questions?
One of our favorite youths, Jack, a splendid young fellow with a head
full of good sense, and a pair of legs that were a wonder to look upon in
the way of length and straightness and slimness, used to report progress
every morning in the most glowing and spirited way, and say:
"Oh, I'm coming along bully!" (he was a little given to slang in his
happier moods.) "I wrote ten pages in my journal last night--and you
know I wrote nine the night before and twelve the night before that.
Why, it's only fun!"
"What do you find to put in it, Jack?"
"Oh, everything. Latitude and longitude, noon every day; and how many
miles we made last twenty-four hours; and all the domino games I beat and
horse billiards; and whales and sharks and porpoises; and the text of the
sermon Sundays (because that'll tell at home, you know); and the ships we
saluted and what nation they were; and which way the wind was, and
whether there was a heavy sea, and what sail we carried, though we don't
ever carry any, principally, going against a head wind always--wonder
what is the reason of that?--and how many lies Moult has told--Oh, every
thing! I've got everything down. My father told me to keep that
journal. Father wouldn't take a thousand dollars for it when I get it
done."
"No, Jack; it will be worth more than a thousand dollars--when you get it
done."
"Do you?--no, but do you think it will, though?
"Yes, it will be worth at least as much as a thousand dollars--when you
get it done. May be more."
"Well, I about half think so, myself. It ain't no slouch of a journal."
But it shortly became a most lamentable "slouch of a journal." One night
in Paris, after a hard day's toil in sightseeing, I said:
"Now I'll go and stroll around the cafes awhile, Jack, and give you a
chance to write up your journal, old fellow."
His countenance lost its fire. He said:
"Well, no, you needn't mind. I think I won't run that journal anymore.
It is awful tedious. Do you know--I reckon I'm as much as four thousand
pages behind hand. I haven't got any France in it at all. First I
thought I'd leave France out and start fresh. But that wouldn't do,
would it? The governor would say, 'Hello, here--didn't see anything in
France? That cat wouldn't fight, you know. First I thought I'd copy
France out of the guide-book, like old Badger in the for'rard cabin,
who's writing a book, but there's more than three hundred pages of it.
Oh, I don't think a journal's any use--do you? They're only a bother,
ain't they?"
"Yes, a journal that is incomplete isn't of much use, but a journal
properly kept is worth a thousand dollars--when you've got it done."
"A thousand!--well, I should think so. I wouldn't finish it for a
million."
His experience was only the experience of the majority of that
industrious night school in the cabin. If you wish to inflict a
heartless and malignant punishment upon a young person, pledge him to
keep a journal a year.
The Innocents Abroad -- Mark Twain
KFG
Given the per capita fitness attitudes in the US, that'a whole lot of content most of of the world doesn't want to see.
*ducks*
By the numbers now, if 44% of people surveyed contribute content to the internet and 98% of the internet is porn, than a wopping 43% or about 120 million americans are involved in the porn industry. Statistics are a wonderful thing.
Don't mess with the bunny, outsideworld.org
It becomes the functional equivalent of tossing the English Alphabet at a million monkeys. Shakespeare will NOT emerge from it.
What? oh, sorry, I wasn't paying attention....
yeah but what you say is true - 99% of it is shit - except for my brilliant prose, of course.
(ego the size of a planet? moi?)
You are in a twisty maze of processor lines, all alike.
There is a lot of hype here.
By posting this, I am adding content to the web and contributing to the figure in this study.
Not unless this is your first post.
Really there are only 10 of us, all with dupe accounts. Move along.
I think I'll make a webcam page of my wall and paint it so people can watch it dry.
# nslookup ihavenolife.com
Server: ns1.nac.net
Address: 207.99.0.1
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: ihavenolife.com
Address: 69.15.89.66
bastards stole my idea
MoFscker
I like reading about which girl bought a new pair of purple shoes today, and which guy had how many beers, you insensitive clod!
"Since when do we need to place a value on individual expression?"
Since the moderation system was added to slashdot?
Pain lasts, kid. Its how you know you're alive. Sometimes I think this growing up thing is just pain management-TheMaxx
They are the expression of the human subconcious, given shape and voice through the power of the incredible /. machine. Luckily, we have moderation to stop them from destroying us all...
Good question! I'd also like to know how much of the content is redundant.
I usually browse at score: 4 & 5, which means nearly all the posts I read are worth reading.
Dude, I get modded up to 4 and 5 all the time, and none of my stuff is worth reading, so there's clearly a problem with that theory.
The other half are Anonymous Cowards.
Analogies don't equal equalities, they are merely somewhat analogous.
does pr0n count as art?
"You might as well ask what percentage of information transported over the telephone is useful, easy to read and informative? Who cares?"
What kindof telephones do you use?
If what you say is true, I should mod your post up for being insightful. But if it's true, it should also be modded down. Damn, let's just drink the iocaine wine and get it over with...
If a job's not worth doing, it's not worth doing right.
The telephone is irrelevant; the NSA transcribes all of your conversations for you and stores it in a readable format. One day they'll decide to pay off the national debt by publishing it all and selling it.
Don't blame me; I'm never given mod points.
no, but a few Perl scripts may emerge.