Digital Life Response

I agree with the ideas suggested in this video 100%:

Although i was not alive before there was such thing as the internet, i have seen pictures and movies where they used other methods to acquire their information (books, direct info, encyclopedias, etc.). Instead of going on the computer to search something up on the internet (search engines), they used applications like spreadsheets, word processing, and of course, games.

Since back then they didn't have the internet, there was no such thing as an online personality. Nowadays, everyone tweets out their every thought on Facebook or Twitter, or posts a new picture on instagram, and hastags it to get likes from strangers. Basically, since we're posting all these things about ourselves, we construct our lives even further on the internet which in a way, is good because we're expressing our individuality and personality, but on the other hand, we need to ask ourselves:
When is it too much? We are no longer enjoying life. Instead, we are tweeting, posting and blogging about every aspect of our daily lives that we aren't taking in and treasuring every moment. These are the points that I interpreted from the video.

 The bad news is the internet has captured most of us. The people who remember times before this frenzy have also been sucked into this worldwide black hole with no way out. Do they even still remember what times were like before all this? What would the world do without the world wide web? All very good questions...

Here are what computers used to look like around 20 years ago:
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=19&st=1

Since the invention of the internet, us, the consumers, have been avid users. But what about the people who weren't around before this? People like me, the children and young adults. Now, when a child is born, straight from birth, they will grow accustomed to the joys of using the internet from an early age. For all the parents, is it safe to let your child play around on the internet at such a young age? I have witnessed 3 year olds playing angry birds on their own brand-new ipad, and 10 year olds chatting on their facebook account. I say that they are missing out on the joys of childhood! And i believe the parents are to blame. The children see the parents using the internet, and they want a piece of the action too. It's only a matter of time until the kids get sucked into the black hole as well.

Our race is increasingly becoming lazier and lazier. Instead of facebook chatting, what about a phone call? Or reading a book instead of playing COD? Maybe looking for information on a certain topic in a book or an encyclopedia? Searching up on the internet may be unsatisfying because all the information is already somewhere on the web. All you have to do is type in what you're looking for, and POOF! There it is! *Cue copy and paste* This also leads to another problem: Plagiarizing.

So, i strongly reccomend to all of the users of the world wide web that we try to incorporate other methods of doing the same things that we do on the internet into our daily lives, and that we try to take in life a little more.