Showing posts with label Internet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Internet. Show all posts

Friday, February 22, 2008

Information Age


Ahh, The Internet. It's a beautiful thing. But for me it's a love/hate relationship. On one hand I love all the entertainment, information, and feelings like im in a SciFi show the World Wide Web gives me. But The net has also taken friends in my hometown away from me. And now they spend more time with people they've never met on the otherside of the country then they do with thier neighbor. And Ive discovered it's not just my friend, but an entire sub-culture of people that have lost contact with their own reality and have planted themselves into a digital world without any physicality whatsoever. Whether it be through chatrooms, forums, webcams, blogs, or MMORPG's some people have become addicts to the drug that is the internet, and have ended up like the kid in the picture above. What are some of your thoughts on this phenomenon?