Quotes about Internet Users from the world's top natural health / natural living authors
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 "Remarkably, almost a quarter of American internet users have searched for mental health topics like depression and anxiety. As a category, mental health issues are searched for more often than immunizations, dental health, Medicare or Medicaid, sexual health information, or problems with drugs and alcohol.29 In July 2006, of the ten most popular online searches for pharmaceutical and medical products, six concerned psychiatric drugs or psychiatric disease. (They were, in order, Lexapro, Cymbalta, Zoloft, Wellbutrin [an antianxiety agent], Effexor, and the illness of depression itself."- Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.) |
 "Similarly, collective intelligence is now being enhanced by online tools and clever social structures. Most internet users are familiar with Wikipedia, the open-source encyclopedia that allows anyone to edit entries or download content. More than a million entries have been created in the English version of the site, many of high quality. But this didn't happen by chance: the creators put guidelines in place to catch vandals, resolve conflicts, store all versions of the content, and discuss contentious or unclear issues."- Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) |
 "Now that both home and business PC users could connect to the Internet, the number of internet users began a decade of dramatic growth. By 1995 there were 25 million users connected to the Internet, worldwide; the number of users exploded to 527 million by the end of 2001.
Commercial Services Connect to the Net America Online (AOL) and the other commercial online services initially positioned themselves as proprietary services separate from the Internet, but user demand eventually forced these private services to allow their users access to the public Internet."- The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.) "E-Mail Spam A more common annoyance to all internet users is the increase in unsolicited commercial e-mail messages, or spam. The average Internet user today receives twice as many e-mails as he or she sends. In 2001 at least 20 percent of these messages were junk e-mail, nearly double the number from the previous year. By 2006, the amount of junk e-mail received by the average Internet user will increase to 1,400 pieces each year—up from 700 pieces, on average, in 2001—totaling 206 billion individual messages." - The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.) |
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