Log Out & Shut Down

The internet is a wonderful creation. The internet is also an evil creation.

It's 2013 and if you still don't know how to use the internet, there really is almost nothing you can do nowadays without it. I mean you can read books, go play in the park, watch TV... all those things people used to do back then without the internet, but let's be real. Can we actually function without it now?

Say, I want to look for a job right now. The best place to find it? Online. The best place to research about it? Online. The best place to find out more information about everything else related to anything or anyone? Online. Google, Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, Tumblr, Wikipedia... you name it. It is the most quick and efficient way to research and get information you need. Heck, even after an interview, you need to go online to write up a thank-you letter. You can definitely write a card, but by the time the card gets there, they'd probably hired someone in place of the position already. LOL jk. Not really.

We rely so heavily on the internet, that we are not able to really work without it. There's online homework now that you cannot avoid. Your dog can no longer eat your homework, because everything is expected to be handed online. Unless your dog bit your internet wire/box. After switching to a smart phone the past year (I know, I'm pretty late), I realized that without my internet on my phone... I feel so... so... isolated. Isolated from the world. That same feeling I get when I leave my phone at home and I cannot contact anyone. At all. Once, I even went home during my lunch break to go back home and get my phone, making it back just in time for my next class. That is how desperate I am to stay connected. There are also those instances when you get an emergency phone call, but you left your phone at home, and then everything goes out of control. Your mom is wondering if something happened to you because you didn't pick up. She then calls your dad who then calls my aunt, who calls my cousin, who calls my friends, etc. All because I left my phone at home. Crazy isn't it? Same goes for a dead phone. I now have to call/text in advance that my phone is going to die, just in case they don't think I'm dead if I don't pick up.

Anyway, the moral of this entry is that I think, sometimes, I am too obsessed with being on the computer, using the internet. Lately, I haven't been on Facebook, and you know what? I am feeling like I'm missing out on what people are up to, what videos they are talking about, if the latest Breaking Bad episode was mind-blowing or not (as it is every freaking Sunday. Do you really need to update your status as: OMG. BREAKING BAD. I can even update my status with that and earn a few likes, EVEN IF I DON'T WATCH IT.) Seriously, Facebook has become an addiction. The internet makes people a little crazy. Hiding behind their computer screens, typing away whatever they want. Sometimes people don't even say the things they do in real-life as they do on the internet. So it's nice to just, once in a while, shut that computer down, take a walk in the park, and you know, maybe forget about what your friends are up to. Hit up a friend and chat and play with them in person. Work out. It's nice to leave the computer - or the virtual world, and enjoy the real world.