Addicted to the Net

Jun 20

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The Internet, our land of virtual promise.   I was thrilled the first time I plugged in a modem to a phone line, and heard the sound of the internet connecting.  Logging into Compuserve or Prodigy to explore this amazing new world.  Those were the good old days.  Good because, the ever expansive internet was actually fairly small.  It didn’t consume people’s lives.  It wasn’t enough of a virtual reality for people to escape the real world.

Nowadays, the opposite is becoming true.  It seems that an ever-increasing percentage of people are online, and all the time.  The internet has blown up into a never ending river of information (truth and lies), social networking (often a way to avoid actually having direct interaction with others, while still calling them friends), and online gaming worlds that allow you to be someone else.  The latter two are quickly growing.  I know that is a generalization, and many people enjoy these things while still having a balanced life.  However, that balance is becoming rare.  I know, I have been there. More