Read a little. Learn a lot. • Tightly-written news, views and stuff • Follow us on Twitter • Be a Facebook Fan • Tumble us!
 

Posted on August 3, 2009 | tags

 
 

Biz, Politics: Columnist: Netflix is killing human interaction, makes you lazy

  • Beyond the mail delays and the botched orders, the lack of human interaction is the big problem with Netflix and its cyber-ilk.
  • Richard Corliss • In an opinion piece on Netflix, and why he doesn’t like it. Despite its huge success (two billion discs served over a decade), it feels hollow and imperfect to him. He specifically brings up the loss of his local video store, Kim’s Video, which closed earlier this year. But more than anything, he criticizes how it makes people shut-ins: “So, O.K., soon there will be no more waiting for DVDs. But it’ll come at a price. You’ll be what the online corporate culture wants you to be: a passive, inert receptacle for its products.” Ouch! • source

Posted by Ernie Smith • Permalink


 
  • ryconpayne

    Seriously? Ok, I can see where he’s coming from, but at the same time, Netflix is driving serious competition in what once was a very stagnant market. Video rental used to be full of late fees, arbitrary time limits, and crazy costs. Late fees, in this day, were idiotic and made people dislike the entire experience. When we like our media here and now, in our own time, conveniently Netflix offers *exactly* that at a reasonable price. Blockbuster now offers much the same, but with the added convenience of actual stores to go browse through. We don’t need less of that kind of thing, we need more.

  • ryconpayne

    Seriously? Ok, I can see where he’s coming from, but at the same time, Netflix is driving serious competition in what once was a very stagnant market. Video rental used to be full of late fees, arbitrary time limits, and crazy costs. Late fees, in this day, were idiotic and made people dislike the entire experience. When we like our media here and now, in our own time, conveniently Netflix offers *exactly* that at a reasonable price. Blockbuster now offers much the same, but with the added convenience of actual stores to go browse through. We don’t need less of that kind of thing, we need more.

  • ryconpayne

    Seriously? Ok, I can see where he’s coming from, but at the same time, Netflix is driving serious competition in what once was a very stagnant market. Video rental used to be full of late fees, arbitrary time limits, and crazy costs. Late fees, in this day, were idiotic and made people dislike the entire experience. When we like our media here and now, in our own time, conveniently Netflix offers *exactly* that at a reasonable price. Blockbuster now offers much the same, but with the added convenience of actual stores to go browse through. We don’t need less of that kind of thing, we need more.

 

More in Biz, Politics (3 of 3 articles)