In my last post I talked about my memories about the Internet and my fears for future generations, but I didn't really mention anything about society's addiction to the Internet. This is something I think about all the time. Have we become too dependent on the Internet?
-I started this post last Saturday and then stopped writing it because things got so busy. The ironic thing about that is that is that when I returned home from Rochester late Sunday night I found out that my roommate's boyfriend had fiddled with our wireless and I no longer had Internet. So here it was, my opportunity for a case study about Internet addiction.
I figured that I shouldn't have a problem with this. Yes, I do use the Internet a great deal, but surely I could survive for a while without it. I go to my cabin in Canada where I have no power or running water, let alone Internet. I have always been perfectly fine there, so why not now? There are computer labs on campus that I can use to access the Internet, I just wouldn't be able to use it at home.
Boy, was I wrong. This past week has been one of the crankiest ones in recent memory. You don't realize how much we depend on the Internet for our day-to-day lives, especially in college. I felt so lost and disconnected, in all honesty I probably would have felt like a hermit if I didn't have my cell phone.
There is so much to write about the problems that I encountered that I will have to break it up into a couple of separate posts in order to not bore my readers completely.
-I started this post last Saturday and then stopped writing it because things got so busy. The ironic thing about that is that is that when I returned home from Rochester late Sunday night I found out that my roommate's boyfriend had fiddled with our wireless and I no longer had Internet. So here it was, my opportunity for a case study about Internet addiction.
I figured that I shouldn't have a problem with this. Yes, I do use the Internet a great deal, but surely I could survive for a while without it. I go to my cabin in Canada where I have no power or running water, let alone Internet. I have always been perfectly fine there, so why not now? There are computer labs on campus that I can use to access the Internet, I just wouldn't be able to use it at home.
Boy, was I wrong. This past week has been one of the crankiest ones in recent memory. You don't realize how much we depend on the Internet for our day-to-day lives, especially in college. I felt so lost and disconnected, in all honesty I probably would have felt like a hermit if I didn't have my cell phone.
There is so much to write about the problems that I encountered that I will have to break it up into a couple of separate posts in order to not bore my readers completely.
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