Do you think the internet has actually distance people in a way, instead of bringing them together?

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i think of the 60s the beatles, the 70s, the doors, pink floyd, the 80s, duran duran EVERYBODY in this world knew who they were.

now it seems like the best songs on earth are going unnoticed. maybe boy bands and trl with 12 yr old girls deciding who was the coolest destroyed it.

i however think the internet destroyed it. there is so much stuff on the internet these days that the niches are getting smaller and smaller to the point where in the future, bands will have fanclubs of like 50 people, and outside of these little niche fanclubs, they are unknown to the world.

songs like mouthful of diamonds only having 1,000000 views. thats 1 out of every 6000 people. it used to be like 600 out of 6000 people who knew the beatles.

anybody see what im saying? yeah we are more connected, but in a way the things we love are always shrinking under the weight of the amount of info on the internet.

i miss the days when everybody knew akari warriors or wolfenstein 3d. things like this are getting lost in history as the internet keeps accellerating.
 
meant to say 600 out of 600 ppl knew the beatles.

its sad to think one day youll be lucky to come across a person whose seen teddybearcrisis
 
I don't get your references but I absolutely agree that the internet distances us, with the caveat that it makes us feel closer. It gives us a strong sense of community without any real features of a real community, other than the communication back and forth. I don't think anyone debates this though. However, you have to remember that this is a two way street. Sticking with the band analogy you can say that there are probably tons of groups that never would have made it without the grassroots aspect of social media on the internet.
 
yeah i agree there are basically no barriers to entry anymore which is a good thing. but we need to creat an artificial intelligence supercomputer historian to keep the amount of info on the internet from crushing the history of everything that came before the internet.
 
I absolutely agree with this 100%. Everything that happens in the world today has taken an altered level of importance. We know when every single celebrity does anything at all, but don't pay attention as the middle east deconstructs itself. And the information is comparably available, its just a matter of selective attention. And as we focus more and more on only what we want (selena and biebs dating, c-lister daniel von bargen's? attempted suicide, or christina hendrick's leaked tit pictures) then yes, the pre-internet stuff will get cluttered out.

Again, its a two way street. I remember trying to look up native american foods for a project in elementary school back home in CT (mid 90's). I couldn't find jack at any library in the city about the diets of colonists or the natives. On a random kick last year I got an idea to cook a thanksgiving style meal that was true to historical form and I found some fantastic several hundred year old recipes on the internet involving things like heritage breed turkeys, game meats, foraged vegetables, all cooked on cast iron and wood fire in a manner befitting the 1600's.

Our world is changing so fast that none of us have any fucking clue whats going on. I like your idea about not forgetting our past though.
 
Honestly individual artists being less popular has to do with two things.

1. because of the internet you can't make any money on albums which makes ticket prices go through the roof causing less people to be interested in seeing you. Especially if you are just starting up.

2. White people are losing their majority (In the U.S.) which is creating less cultural unification. The reason bands like the Beatles, Led Zepplin, Van Halen, and Bon Jovi used to be so mainstream is because white people loved that shit. Now an emergence of hip hop, rap, funk, latin influenced music, and other stuff basically has to do with our country being more open to racial and cultural differences allowing other people of different cultures and ethnicities to become more popular. So the scale of popularity is thrown making it much harder for like a Bon Jovi to appeal to more of a percentage of the country than they might have in the 80s.
 
also the whole music business has been destroyed by napster and iTunes. So yes the internet is really to blame.
 
yeah for sure the internet provides infinite storage space for us to post history. but its also as if the way history is recorded has changed completely. i think people dont really appreciate its full impact. the internet has probably had the biggest impact on humanity in its history. i think its had more effect than tv and radio combined.
 
imo the beastie boys and eminem were the best rappers. either way modern beyonce type hip hop makes me want to throw up my pancreas. imo the peak was synthesized music in the 80s, and italo disco type stuff that led to techno. in some ways nnintendo created techno....think about it
 
ya, I am addicted to NHL 12. I would rather play it online with my friends than go out and drink with them on the weekends..
 
I think that the internet is actually good for music because its letting more people make it. There will always be that upper 1% of musicians who make money and are extremely successful for it, but now there's more music because it can be shared and distributed with just about no costs. Software like Ableton and Logic can be pirated in 10 minutes, and you can put something on sound cloud for free and share it with anyone on the internet.
 
The way I see it the internet has only "destroyed" record companies because, instead of embracing a new medium and innovating, they started suing teenagers for thousands of dollars. Some corporate scumbags have lost money, but artists are either a) making about the same as they would have before the internet or b)much more successful because they didn't wouldn't have been able to get their music out there. And to OP, are you actually complaining about diversity? Diversity is a good thing!
 
u missed the oint. diversity is good. but gone are the days when the entire world is obsessed with the beatles for example or joy division.
 
There are artists just as popular today. You have to remember the millions of more listeners that have only recently begun to be exposed to music outside of their local areas. You could make the argument that today's superstars aren't as talented, but that doesn't make them any less popular. I don't see any any particular benefits to having the world be obsessed with one band anyway. But that could just be personal opinion, so I'm not saying you're wrong for thinking that.
 
i think as a culture we have to be wary of the difference between things that connect us and things that bring us together. Sure, the internet can connect people around the world, but not in the same was as an actually physical meet-up with someone.
 
They can get their music out more but they don't get paid for it. When people actually had to go out and spend 20 dollars on an album artists were making a shit ton more money than now when they get like a couple cents off of every song on iTunes, and lets not forget all the illegal downloading.

My dad has been in the music business for a long time and most producers and artists agree that the internet has destroyed Music as a way to make a living for a lot of people.
 
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