MY FIRST TIME

The first time I experienced the Internet I remember it being very, very loud to log on. The computer went on for about five minutes before initializing the connection; unfortunately for you everybody in the house is awake by this time. Surfing the web was a new thing to me so I found myself feeling like a little fish in a really big pond, and with so much available media and information via the Internet I didn’t know where to start. It wasn’t until I learned that you could communicate with a total stranger living in another part of the world, that I felt I was riding the wave. The name of the website slips my mind but I never forget the feeling I had. With these new ways to communicate so quickly and quietly, the information super highway revolutionized not only my life but has helped to shape this fast pace society in which we live.

                Despite the fact that I didn’t know what the person looked or sounded like didn’t really matter to me. The fact that I could just type what I was thinking and get a response from a real person was mind blowing. I jumped in headfirst and didn’t look back.

                These days, not only have the Internet help make our world smaller, it also plays a major part in the way we communicate with one another. Back in those days I could only type what I was thinking or what I wanted to ask the person on the other side of my computer screen. With new websites like Facebook, and Twitter not only can my friends and family see what I’m thinking when I post something to my wall. I can also post videos and photos of myself. It’s not the ability to talk to someone via email or typing back and forth that gets me. It is the ability we have to video chat with our loved ones and friends that takes the cake. With websites like Skype or even Oovoo, I can talk to them face to face. As I look back now I never would have thought this would have been possible without some kind of telephone playing the middleman.

                 “E-mail me” was a hot term but now before I tell someone my number I tell him or her to Facebook me. Technology continues to change and shape how we communicate with one another as a people, however many people feel that all these new faster ways to do things that at one point in time took longer, only makes us lazier as a people. I’m not sure if I agree with this theory but the one thing I know is that that ability to communicate with the rest of the world faster is a great thing and can be used to help connect us as a whole. I am a firm believer that we are all one people under God, and with the Internet, it is now possible for us all to communicate we each other.