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Using the Internet to get people off the Internet
The document discusses using the internet to encourage people to engage more in real-world communities rather than online ones. It emphasizes the importance of storytelling and fun in fostering connections, suggesting activities like gardening or local events. The message promotes overcoming loneliness by creating engaging and enjoyable experiences that lead people away from their screens.
Using the Internet to get people off the Internet
- 1. How to usethe Internet to get people off the Internet
- 4. People are unpredictable. ‘Communities’are just people with a reason to talk to one- another. You can belong to more than one. It is a fluid concept.
- 5. Why would Icare? Why would I share?
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- 8. So how canwe use the Internet to get people off the Internet?
- 11. Food Court ‘Community’. Growit Local ‘Community’.
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- 36. What the hell? Gardening?Composting? Worms! If I knew all this latte-pinko-leftie-hippie- greenie stuff was so much fun I never would have have let it in! WOW! A HORSE, WHAT FUN! What Present! I’ll take it.
- 38. “If you wantto subvert the dominant paradigm, you have to have more fun than they do and let them know while you’re doing it” Ed Gillespie, Founder of Futerra.
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