My Online Life

Meetica, Uncategorized — By Shopping Blogs on October 13, 2009 7:20 am

When I was a little kid I barely even knew what a computer was. Most of the time, my friends and I were playing outside in the pool, on the playground, or just running around. I used my imagination making up plays that my friends and I would put on for the neighborhood parents, and thinking up scenarios of predicaments my friends and I had to face. Life back then was extremely different from how it is today. Today, my online life is just as active and busy as my regular life. Even though I used to never have to be on the computer, now that I am an adult, work, school, and my social life all make up my online life.

My online life really began around seventh grade when AOL instant messenger came out. Every night I would get online and talk to lots of my friends. Whenever I had a crush on someone I would sit and wait for the little door noise that would announce them being online. If they did get online and start talking to me my heart would race and I would get super excited. Almost all of my classmates had AIM, and I stopped talking to my friends on the phone so much and, instead, talked to everybody on AIM.  I looked forward  to getting online every night and would often be up way later chatting on AIM than I probably should have been.

AIM continued throughout high school, but my online life got even larger as I started having to do research papers. I became familiar with researching topics online and figuring out a good way to find the best sources for my papers. My online life expanded even more as I also began using the internet to find out about news stories, movie times, and pretty much anything I wanted to know.

Even though my online life was pretty busy by this point, the biggest factor in my online life had not yet occurred. When I received my e-mail address for college though, I found out all about Facebook. Facebook, as you probably know, is probably the biggest social network online and has not only affected my online life drastically, but everyone else’s. Facebook became not just a part of my online life, but a huge part of my life in general. I became consumed by it; it had everything. You could check out all the latest updates and photos on your friends, chat, and basically find out anything you wanted to know about anyone who was your Facebook friend.

Once I graduated from college, my online life expanded even more when my job became pretty much internet based. So now, I sit in front of the computer all day not just for my online social life but also for my job. It is rare if I am in front of the computer less than eight hours a day. Considering I am only awake about 16 hours a day, I am spending at least half of my day absorbed in my online life as I am in my life which is not online. With the internet and technology today, I believe that this is going to become the norm for more and more people. I am glad that I have all the opportunities and social experiences in my online life, but I also appreciate personable relationships and situations as well.

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