Wikipedia talk:The Internet is not Serious Business

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Some argue that it may, in fact, be very, VERY, serious business.

[edit] I work for a serious Internet business

"the Internet is not a job"

Unless you work for Amazon.com, eBay, or another firm that does business over the Internet. Then the Internet is your job, and it is serious business. I don't see what the author of this essay is trying to get at. --Damian Yerrick (talk | stalk) 00:17, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

You miss the point. The internet is not a concrete thing, and ANYTHING can happen to it. eBay could disappear with one bad electric shock at their main office. eBay may be real, per se, but it's only as real as the people who frequent it. Or the servers that run it. The point? You don't work for an internet business, you work for a business whose network is channeled through the internet, which in and of itself, isn't anything. Doing business "over the internet", and one's job being the internet are two very different things. Capisce? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.12.4.128 (talk) 01:12, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

You have a point there. But is the Internet a serious business to an employee of an ISP? --Damian Yerrick (talk | stalk) 02:02, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

The original ran "Remember: you are not being payed [sic] to be anally retentive. Contrary to popular belief... THE INTERNET IS NOT SERIOUS BUSINESS". Point being that folks should just chill out. Octane ^{[improve me]} 01.02.08 2019 (UTC)