I'm a 21 year old male that has in the past seen a lot of porn and I would have to disagree with your idea that porn is not harmful. I first started looking at porn when I was ~17. My views of women started changing in an unhealthy way. I started looking at women as sex ojects instead of human beings with emotions just like us (well probably more fragile emotions in some ways). Most women don't want this in a man but might settle on it because men (actually anyone) with morals are becoming much harder to find nowadays. I luckily realized that my view was changing along with the way I treated women but I had a very hard time stopping my viewing of porn. What I finally had to do is install a program called WeBlocker with a password that I don't know. I'm sure the same kind of thing can happen to women and thus it is better to block porn before it can do any harm. I do also suggest though that the parent should explain why porn (or any other site deemed harmful) is not appropriate.
You could also use it for User visualization. Each user could only kill other logins of their own. Sysadmins could logout anybody (by blowing them to the moon of course). And there could be special AI to go kill a login that has been sitting there without activity for more than the designated amount of time. This last feature would be really useful for an ISP to logoff users that have been on for too long with no activity.
*---------------- Another thing to try, is getting stuck doing a job that forces you to talk to people, ie. technical support *----------------
I tried this a year or two ago and my experiences with it were not good. I got myself a job as a cashier at a local Target. I spent a whole summer at this job and by the end of it I was EXTREMELY stressed and was worse off than before and could not hardly even walk into a grocery store without wanting to crawl into a corner and die.
*-------------------------- I'm of the opinion that perhaps the reason why so many geeks have such low social graces is because of the way in which we are treated growing up. If you're an outcast for long enough, you may start believe that other people and their social graces aren't worth dealing with. *--------------------------
I agree with this statement 100%. I, like so many other "geeks", was a complete social outcast in school and had no friends and was constantly being phsically and verbally abused. But when I moved here to Austin (Texas) I was excepted by almost everyone (perhaps because of the very diverse culture here). It took a while but I finally began to make friends and actually have a semi-"normal" life. I still find it hard to make friends and the only real friends that I have are people who have gone completely out of their way to get to know me. This is because I do believe that many people are not worth dealing with although I am usually very polite for the simple fact that I don't want to put anyone else through the torture of low self esteem that still exists in me today. I get very sressed in large crowds and can't stand jobs that require interaction with other people.
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I'm a 21 year old male that has in the past seen a lot of porn and I would have to disagree with your idea that porn is not harmful. I first started looking at porn when I was ~17. My views of women started changing in an unhealthy way. I started looking at women as sex ojects instead of human beings with emotions just like us (well probably more fragile emotions in some ways). Most women don't want this in a man but might settle on it because men (actually anyone) with morals are becoming much harder to find nowadays. I luckily realized that my view was changing along with the way I treated women but I had a very hard time stopping my viewing of porn. What I finally had to do is install a program called WeBlocker with a password that I don't know. I'm sure the same kind of thing can happen to women and thus it is better to block porn before it can do any harm. I do also suggest though that the parent should explain why porn (or any other site deemed harmful) is not appropriate.
http://target.com/registries/
You could also use it for User visualization. Each user could only kill other logins of their own. Sysadmins could logout anybody (by blowing them to the moon of course). And there could be special AI to go kill a login that has been sitting there without activity for more than the designated amount of time. This last feature would be really useful for an ISP to logoff users that have been on for too long with no activity.
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Another thing to try, is getting stuck doing a job that forces you to talk to people, ie. technical support
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I tried this a year or two ago and my experiences with it were not good. I got myself a job as a cashier at a local Target. I spent a whole summer at this job and by the end of it I was EXTREMELY stressed and was worse off than before and could not hardly even walk into a grocery store without wanting to crawl into a corner and die.
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I'm of the opinion that perhaps the reason why so many geeks have such low social graces is because of the way in which we are treated growing up. If you're an outcast for long enough, you may start believe that other people and their social graces aren't worth dealing with.
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I agree with this statement 100%. I, like so many other "geeks", was a complete social outcast in school and had no friends and was constantly being phsically and verbally abused. But when I moved here to Austin (Texas) I was excepted by almost everyone (perhaps because of the very diverse culture here). It took a while but I finally began to make friends and actually have a semi-"normal" life. I still find it hard to make friends and the only real friends that I have are people who have gone completely out of their way to get to know me. This is because I do believe that many people are not worth dealing with although I am usually very polite for the simple fact that I don't want to put anyone else through the torture of low self esteem that still exists in me today. I get very sressed in large crowds and can't stand jobs that require interaction with other people.