Will internet help us with our poor knowledge of the world?

@marguicha (216187)
Chile
April 17, 2012 10:42am CST
I have a mylot friend who just visited me. She comes from the UK. I would not have met her if it wasn´t for mylot. And there are so many places and so many cultures that we would not know about if it wasn´t for our friends online. Would you say that this is a kind of traveling? Do you check on places where you will never go, thanks to mylot and other online sites? Share!
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18 responses
• India
18 Apr 12
Internet is a long chain of several wealth. It consist of knowledge,fun and joy. It provides us what ever we need. The perform the tasks on the basis of the things we need. Thus we can call the chain as an perfect Mother becuase it gives us all the things which we need within a short time. Really browsing internet gives us a feeling that we people are really moving all around the world. This feeling is quite normal becuase internet provide us to get the things in our small hand with the help of the internet and mostly it helps us to get our friends back and it helps us to strength the friendship which we have. As we look the simple site mylot, it is an perfect example of a perfect mother. I gives us all the things which we expect and more over it gives us the abilities like to read and write along with fun. Really according to me Internet is a School , where there is teachers who corrects us when we go to the mistakes.
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@marguicha (216187)
• Chile
20 Apr 12
It is a very beautiful way of putting it and very accurate too. Although I would go as far as comparing it to a mother, I would comare it to a good teacher if used properly
@albto_568 (1268)
• Costa Rica
19 Apr 12
I have to say that I do no know anyone in mylot that much, maybe my fault, but, I have personally know people I have met in Facebook, and you are right, it is interesting knowing people from other places and cultures, and the internet is a really helpful tool for this, even when we do not personally know all of our friends, sharing conversations and letters with them is a good way to know the world and its inhabitants
@albto_568 (1268)
• Costa Rica
26 Apr 12
Of the best things of having the computer at home, is to make new friends from abroad, quick and easily. I have always liked to have friends in other countries, even as a boy, when I used to use the regular mail, something I still do, never mind the technology, there is nothing like actually opening a letter came from far away. But, the internet, for its accesibility and being so easy to use, allows us to get in touch with more people, and learn more from all the diferent regions of this world.
@marguicha (216187)
• Chile
27 Apr 12
I used to collect stamps that my friends from all over the world sent me. But that was a long time ago. Then I didn´t care bout the time I used up in going to the post office. It seems that now some things are nearer and others very far apart. Our city has grown so much that it´s alien to me.
@marguicha (216187)
• Chile
26 Apr 12
Little by little we get to know people, albto. And if we talk to them as we do here, little by little we start to know them. I have learned a lot about the world because I had to seek some information about other countries and cultures after I met a nice mylotter.
@maximax8 (31053)
• United Kingdom
17 Apr 12
I think that My Lot members come from many different countries and it is possible for people to learn more about these countries. It is even better to go and visit one or more of these countries. Traveling overseas can cost lots of money therefore the Internet is a great way to help the person get more knowledge about the world. I have a travel wish list list with the countries and places I wish to go to. There are some countries which I will probably never visit like Iraq and Afghanistan but often war ends so then a visit can happen. Yes, I check on places I probably won't ever go. On the Internet I follow the story of a man from Liverpool in the UK. He visits every single country in the world to break a record. Hug my dear friend.
@marguicha (216187)
• Chile
20 Apr 12
Hi Maxine, I´m glad you are safe and glad. t´s been trembling around here and some people say there´s going to be a big earthquake by the end of the week. I hope not. I don´t know how many more countries I´ll be able to visit. Buy I will go on visiting online if my health doesn´t let me travel anymore.
@maximax8 (31053)
• United Kingdom
21 Apr 12
Hi Marguicha. I had such a fantastic time visiting you. Yes, I am safely back home now. I will be sending you some photos of my lovely trip. The two earthquakes were scary especially the one in the daytime. I hope that your area of Chile won't have another big earthquake. I will keep hoping this for you my dear friend. Take care. Hug.
@marguicha (216187)
• Chile
24 Apr 12
I´m so glad you liked our part of the world. And I´m also glad tht you could see the Iguazú Falls: they are amazing!!! It has trembled more here. I´m not happy about it as you well know. Days are more cold and I have a cold as many other people around.
@williamjisir (22819)
• China
5 Oct 12
Hello marguicha. The Internet does help us with our poor knowledge of the world. With the Internet, I am gaining a lot more knowledge day by day than those days I did not have the access to the Internet, but from newspapers and radio and television. More knowledge and information can be got from the Internet, good or bad, positive or negative. It also needs us to filter what is good or bad to us net users or readers. Mylot is a miracle to us and it helps us members to know more about the world. That is why it is so welcome and popular with us. Have a great time ahead.
@marguicha (216187)
• Chile
5 Oct 12
Thanks for your answer, friend. I have become an internet addict and it is so easy to check for anything you want to learn here.
@myfb2009 (8296)
• Malaysia
23 Apr 12
Marg, for me indeed the internet had helped me a lot. I had gained lots of new knowledge for those section of my favorite like cooking and blogging. Besides that, i have the chance to get to know many new places without even visiting them. But, i do hope in future, i have the opportunity to visit one by one of those my favorite countries in this world. I even hope in future able to visit you and your country as well. Do take good care of your health, my friend.
@myfb2009 (8296)
• Malaysia
25 Apr 12
Thanks for the nice suggestion, friend. I am happy that you do take care very well of yourself. Indeed, i will inform you when i have the chance to visit USA and your lovely country.
@marguicha (216187)
• Chile
27 Apr 12
I don´t live in the US but you are very welcome
@marguicha (216187)
• Chile
24 Apr 12
I´m doing the best I can with my health, friend. As for visiting, do come. I have room to have you
@Matpunk85 (1066)
• Italy
17 Apr 12
Thnaks to social networks I met my girlfriend, so I totally agree with you. Even if to live phisically in a place is another thing I think that is anyway very interesting and useful to meet and to understand other cultures. Internet is a wonderful place to do this.
@marguicha (216187)
• Chile
17 Apr 12
I totally agree with you. And you don´t have to be rich to do awesome virtual trips if you cannot do them otherwise.
@Matpunk85 (1066)
• Italy
19 Apr 12
Of course this is the cheapest to travel around the World and it doesn't have any problems of distance! Anyway we cannot lose possibilities to travel in nearby cities and countries when we have the possibility, maybe using low cost flights or discounted travel tickets, because to visit a place "live" is always better than a virtual trip.
@marguicha (216187)
• Chile
20 Apr 12
I love to travel. But many times we don´t have the money or there are other reasons why we cannot do it. Right now, I have the money to travel a bit, but I depend on my doctor´s order and will have to find someone to go with me too as my health is not the best.
@sid556 (30960)
• United States
2 May 12
Hi Marguicha, IT has helped me out a lot. Actually just being on Mylot and conversing with people from all over the world gives an insight into other people and what is going on in their lives far more accurately than the media portrays. Yes, I think it helps tremendously.
@marguicha (216187)
• Chile
5 Oct 12
I agree with you. And mylot has been very important to me as a motivation for learning about other places and even checking on what they eat and trying out some recipes
@julyteen (13252)
• Davao, Philippines
22 Apr 12
Yes I agree, internet will help us in many different ways. You can search different kinds of topics like you studied for a certain subjects. Aside from that you can also know about people around the world in different races, cultures and traditions. It's like you are traveling around the world.
@marguicha (216187)
• Chile
24 Apr 12
If you cannot travel, internet brings you the closest knowledge you can get. And if you travel, you can learn somethings beforehand or after you finished your trip.
@JenInTN (27514)
• United States
30 Apr 12
I certainly would say this is a kind of traveling. I have learned a ton here about people and places that I would have never got the chance to do otherwise. I actually laugh sometimes at the way I viewed certain areas of the world compared to now. I think that our governments often limit our knowledge and understanding. Mylot is one of the ways that we can venture out and learn some things on our own.
@marguicha (216187)
• Chile
1 May 12
I also feel that I know a lot more about some countries than I did before. I did not know anything about modern literature from Indi and now I have been interested in reading some books. I have read online about some countries that used to be brown in the map and that was all. Now they hve a meaning. I´m even trying to learn how to cook some dishes from other places as my friends here talk about them.
@maezee (41997)
• United States
17 Apr 12
Sort of! I think MyLot makes us more knowledgable about other cultures...We have so many other people of other cultures on here that it's impossible to not pick up some things here and there on what it's like to live in their culture! Of course it's not nearly as informative as taking a college class or traveling, but it's something!
@marguicha (216187)
• Chile
1 May 12
It makes a lot of difference for people who cannot travel. I was really talking bout internet as a whole. But mylot has been very important in my own life this last year. I was secluded at home for over 4 months while I was undergoing chemo for a lymphoma. Thanks to mylot I could have contact with the rest of the world.
@laken02 (3065)
• United States
17 Apr 12
yes it is great to hear the different people who post on mylot, and all across the world and see that some people are no differetn then us and the that some are very different and it is fun to get to know different customs that every country and states do.. i love meeting new people around the globe and love adding new friends as well.. take care
@marguicha (216187)
• Chile
20 Apr 12
Isn´t that awesome? I am absolutly sure that if more people learned about other people as we are learning here, there´d be more respect for other cultures and other human beings.
@chuyins123 (2112)
• Philippines
20 Apr 12
Internet almost have it all. How convenient it is today to know something you didn't know through internet. And yeah, these sites gives us tidbits of the knowledge that we wanna have. I guess this is one of the pros of tech's development.
@marguicha (216187)
• Chile
1 May 12
And as it´s free to check, you can always change the site if you prefer something with more knowledge, with more pictures, whatever. I love the Wikipedia to start with, but then, if I´m interested, I go to other sites.
@asliah (11137)
• Philippines
4 Oct 12
hi, i could say that the internet really have a big role in our life,because it can really help us in every category we are looking for,such as knowledge in cooking,creating businesses and other things that we can benefits on it.we usually use internet to add our knowledge instead of books now a days.
@marguicha (216187)
• Chile
4 Oct 12
In this wonderful site, as it is an international social site, we can get friends from all parts of the world and learn different customs, religions and even recipes. Now, when I watch TV and there are news from other countries, I am more interested as I feel that it`s part of me.
@Cherish14 (2693)
• Philippines
20 Apr 12
the internet is a really good source of knowledge to all of us people. actually lately i have been looking up stuffs about traveling. there are 2 countries i want to visit but it wont be soon because i am still saving. there are two but i am only visiting one of them, it would be too much if i'll go to both places hehehe.
@marguicha (216187)
• Chile
24 Apr 12
Tell us about your wishes, Cherish. This sites is also a sort of wish book where we post what we would like to do nd how we would like to be
@bhanusb (5709)
• India
17 Apr 12
Hi maguicha, today that mylot friend posted a topic about her experience of the trip to South America. She mentioned your country. Till I got no opportunity to meet a online friend. In this case you are lucky. Here in mylot we are friends of various culture.Yes by traveling we can be acquainted with various cultures. But that requires lots of money.
@marguicha (216187)
• Chile
17 Apr 12
Sometimes it requires more interest that much money. We all have priorities. I love to travel so I spend little on clothes but save for my vacations. All my online earnings are saved for that purpose. Probably if they were more, I would do something else with them. But as it´s not so much, I decided to live frugally all year around and travel for 2 weeks each year.
@babyEj (1522)
• Philippines
20 Apr 12
It is... by just reading the replies of your friends online will give you an eye view of what like is her/his country. Reading reviews and stories of people about countries, culture and their people seems like touring in their place.
@jricky1 (6800)
• China
20 Apr 12
You guys are so meant to be and that is so-called fate that you met.Anyway,mylot brings us together and i never tried other sites like mylot.It's cool to arrange meeting with mylot friend also travel to that place you never go.I really have to say that thanks mylot and it let me know people from around the world.
@ricebird (34)
• Philippines
18 Apr 12
I think so. If not for the internet, I would not have learned about issues of child-brides and honor-killings. It helps me get educated on the plight of women in other countries.