Thursday, May 5, 2011

The Endless World of The Internet

I think we all agree that the internet has changed how we all live in many different ways. I never use a phone book, a subscription to a daily newspaper is no longer needed, most of my bills are all sent and paid online and it has also allowed us to expand the way we communicate with our friends and family and even meet new people. Social networking online is something that most of the people I know do on a daily basis even my mother has a Facebook page. It has allowed us to communicate with people we haven't seen since grade school or a cousin half way around the world.
I know many people who have used the internet for the purpose of dating. This has had mixed results from meeting many "weirdos" or liars pretending to be something they aren't to others meeting the person they eventually ended up marrying.
The fact that the internet allows us to keep in touch even daily or meet someone we would have never met locally is fascinating.
Of course there are risks and many precautions must be taken. Many people will live a completely different life online then what is really reality. Using old pictures or even pictures of other people. A perfect example of this is the movie "Catfish" which is a "documentary" about a photographer who begins a online relationship with an entire family through Facebook and in the end finds out the whole thing was orchestrated by one lonely housewife.
The internet has many pros and cons but the possibilities are endless......

1 comment:

  1. With so much automated in our lives, it also becomes easier to cheat people. When folks have their bills automatically withdrawn from their bank accounts, they aren't as attentive to what's happening. There's the tendency to trust machines.

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