http://www.squaresphere.co.uk/2006/09/04/how-to-make-a-top-10-list-in-5-minutes/ Idle musings on the world around us Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:38:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 http://www.squaresphere.co.uk/2006/09/04/how-to-make-a-top-10-list-in-5-minutes/#comment-5 Billy Sun, 12 Nov 2006 20:54:16 +0000 http://www.squaresphere.co.uk/2006/09/04/how-to-make-a-top-10-list-in-5-minutes/#comment-5 Many people do categorize things, that’s because when we do so things appear clearer to us. Its not only us humans who do these, animals do so as well; take bees, they have a section in their hives to store food, while another section to breed, etc… i think that the main problem is that nowadays people have the ability to collect too many information too quickly and easily on the internet, which leads to them not remembering the information they found and thinking to themselves "I’ll come back to it later" (but then they forget about it) And I think you are absolutely right, more and more people have started to put own views on the internet, such as web blog and this is slowly changing the internet to not only a "normal" library, but it is also a library for their opinions to be displayed and time and time again we can see people adopting foolish ideas just because they have been displayed on the internet. Luckily there is only a minority of them ^^ Many people do categorize things, that’s because when we do so things appear clearer to us. Its not only us humans who do these, animals do so as well; take bees, they have a section in their hives to store food, while another section to breed, etc…
i think that the main problem is that nowadays people have the ability to collect too many information too quickly and easily on the internet, which leads to them not remembering the information they found and thinking to themselves “I’ll come back to it later” (but then they forget about it)
And I think you are absolutely right, more and more people have started to put own views on the internet, such as web blog and this is slowly changing the internet to not only a “normal” library, but it is also a library for their opinions to be displayed and time and time again we can see people adopting foolish ideas just because they have been displayed on the internet. Luckily there is only a minority of them ^^

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