Becoming more and more an Internet addict …
Let’s try for a few seconds to remember what was life 10 years ago … You used lane lines to call your friends, payphones to call them if you had an emergency, and paid a fortune to get a limited access on the Internet.
Can a 15 years old child, using Internet all the time, really imagine that, a long time ago, you had to pay to connect 20 hours a month ? I don’t think I’m a geek, not even a frequent user. However, I need it all the time and I couldn’t imagine living my life and doing all what I have to do without using the web.
As for me, I have to admit that Internet plays a big role in the relations I can have with the world and people in general : checking and answering my emails, chatting with friends, creating pages that are supposed to reflect who I am, reading the news, watching movies… And as I live with this addiction, I find it a bit scary, thinking that many of your actions during the day are linked with Internet, thinking that some people don’t even need the real world to live because they have everything they want on the Internet.
Internet is an all new opportunity though, I realized that it opened my curiosity on the world and offered me to know/search/create whatever you want. During my e-culture class, I’ve learned many times how it could be dangerous to “missuse” the Internet. But the truth is that we actually need it, and it’s a part of how we live : it may be dangerous but if you learn how to use it and to avoid the actual dangers, no need for you to panic.
Not using the Internet is running backward, and the risk is actually to cut of the real world. Of course, we need to pay attention to the dangers, of course we need to stop what could make “sink” our world, but we need to understand why it is such a precious tool.
And in 10 years from now, we’ll talk about today as an ancient era, because many things will have evolved again !!
