World going nuts or is it?

A group of youngsters got into a fight earlier today in Oslo, Norway – after a quarrel on Facebook. Many say “oh what have Internet come to” but I think they should reconsider what they think of Facebook. Youngsters today are born with keyboards under their hands, for them Internet is as real as the world we grew up in. The problem I think is that they doesn’t learn to respect and care about eachother the same way “we” were taught – they grow up to think Internet is theirs, no rules. Because their parents are too distanced to Internet and don’t teach them to respect and care about other humans like we do in “real life”.

I think its time to say that life on Internet is the same as real life – otherwise we will never get rid of bad behaviour on Internet. Do you agree?

On Facebook the youngsters agreed to meet in Oslo to settle the quarrel, it ended up with a large fight with weapons. Not firearms but I guess that is next.

Mobile applications bigger than Internet

I read in a Norwegian newspaper today that mobile applications will be bigger than Internet, isn’t that a funny way to put it? Most mobile applications use services on Internet and Internet as a transportation for traffic between the application and the server. How can “mobile applications” then be bigger than Internet? Or did I miss something?

They are talking about how popular Apple’s App Store is, having 65000 applications and people have downloaded 1,5 billion apps. Is that why they call it bigger? To use their own way of saying this, I think The Internet has more than 65000 apps. :)

This came to my mind on the subject, an awesome episode of the IT Crowd :

Link to the article (in Norwegian) : VG