Blog #5

The essay by Danna Walker “The Longest Day” was very interesting and really grabbed my attention.  In this article Danna talked about her struggle of not using communication for one whole day (24 hours) She spoke about how it affected her and what her problems were when she faced this situation.  For one whole day I chose to not use the Internet or my computer.  I do really need to be on my computer all the time checking emails and just surfing the web so I thought this may be something that would be a problem.  My expectations of this assignment were that it would be no problem that I could not use the Internet for one day.  I thought it was actually to easy and I would not even falter.  I also thought that the Internet was not as demanding and not as needed and everyone thought it really was.  I found it almost troubling how much this affected me during the course of the day.  I really did not think it would be a problem but then I realized that it was.  I found myself wanting to go on facebook and want to check fantasy football frequently.  I felt that if I was not on AIM or facebook then I was out of the loop.  I also like to use the Internet to shop on EBAY or other online sites.  I really did not think that it would have such a huge affect on me like it did but I was honestly rattled about not being able to access the Internet.  Also the Internet is huge for school, everything is run through myumbc so when I could not access it I also felt like I was falling behind with my schoolwork.  I learned from this experience that I think people are more and more attached and almost dependent on the Internet.  Not just having it be a social way to connect with people but everything is mostly run through computers and the internet.  If you are working with a specific company and do not have access to the internet then you will defiantly be out of the loop and will have trouble keeping up with the workload.  I found it borderline disturbing that our society is so dependent on computers like we are but also I think it makes a lot of things easier.  This technology is essential because like I said before with businesses and schools now, the Internet is the way everything operates.  You now pay your bills online and you also check email, get in contact with teachers and even use it to find your way around campus.  I think that everything would be a huge hassle without the Internet; it makes everything so much easier.   I think that this experience shows that we have basically surrendered our lives over to the Internet because so many things are ran through it and it is essential in our society.  I also think that our society is so lazy that they want the easy way out of everything.  For example our society would rather shop online and have it delivered to their door rather than going to the store to buy it.  If everything was so easy and accessible online then I feel that people would never leave their houses.   I think that kids now a days in our society will become almost addicted to the internet and really will not be able to have a day or even a half a day without it. This is only the beginning to the obsession with the internet and I think that there will be more and better innovations that come out of it and before we know it, there I nothing we cant do on the internet.