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What are you waiting for?
That thing called the Internet
What’s the first thing you do when you awake? What a silly question you may think this to be! Of course brush your teeth! Ok that was indeed silly; let me rephrase it! What’s the first thing you do when you arrive at your cubicle in the office…. I’ll tell you! Between the time that you keep your bag to the time you take your first sip of the morning coffee, you check your mails…. Why?
Well for several reasons…. First, it’s because you need to understand what you need to do next to save your skin (in terms of corporate politics). That’s precisely why you’ve got your mailbox in place right! So after the ordeal of mails end, your tryst with IE doesn’t stop there. Then there are those wonderful mails that are forwarded to you by your friends across the seas. And there are spams and spams galore!! So what is it that really gets you get there clicking on to the screen…
I’ll tell you! The big and never ending eternal world of the Internet, a world that’s growing each day and promises to stay that way, forever growing that is! I thought it was only me who felt it, but no… With better reasons to get hooked on to www, it’s no surprise then to watch us fall prey to the web. First there were the popular chats, then the variety of searches that sprung into even varied searches, groups, bolgs, information, pictures, courses, on-line examinations, job listings, matrimonial searches, glamour mags…the list is endless.
The fast pace of Technology
At first I thought that it was only us mad hatters who chose to spend hours browsing through unknown territories and understanding the fact that being a loner was never so interesting, especially not if you had a great companion like the Internet to assist you all the time. I found that I wasn’t the only one, with my nieces and nephews growing accustomed to the constant clattering and downloading of information with curious looks that were growing by the day. So reading a book did not necessarily require me to be around with a book in hand, after all what were e-books meant for. "Just download it and we’ll pick it up from there", chirped a seven year old. "Else we’ll understand it through the graphics", suggest another five something….
Generations Hooked on!
I’ve noticed that the Internet has created its categories by simply being there. I mean, the kiddies would love to download and print wallpapers depicting their favourites Tom & Jerry cartoons, Winnie, the Pooh, their Scooby Doo’s, others would find their own perfect time in finding their summer jobs, thanks to the mushrooming of a variety of job sites. I for one remember spending time to catch up with old friends and chat my heart out. Dad went through his stocks and Mom, whom I thought wouldn’t really be the interested soul, landed up making her own notes on how to bake the perfect Apple pie, all thanks to the new food site that has been making rounds….Phew! To top it all, when I returned to the exciting new poetry featured on Poetry.com it more than startled me to find a bulky yet well maintained Jay Cutler to flex his muscles and smile at me in the face leaving me gawk eyed.
That’s Internet for you, a mad, mad world, and an addiction hard to give up!
