This is what I go to when I have to look up anything and my dad is no longer in a position to answer all my question due to differences of time and space!! This is where I look up when I have to look up recipes, baking times, translations, rituals just about anything. It in one word is my back up and is my back up for all the people that I can no longer surround myself with in reality.
With it I create my virtual world where I talk to and read from and write to all the people with as much detail that I want.
It is also a window from where I surreptitiously observe all those I kind of know and check out just like I would have had we lived in a same neighborhood.
I wonder if it is something that helps me open up more or something that keeps me from opening up to newer things in life. Since I have my comfort zone and the press of a button, I no longer see people and much less talk to the ones who are right next to me in the room. I am so busy typing away my grievances to a friend in london that I dont notice that there might be a potential friend right behind me if I just turn my chair and tap on another desk.
In the same room we are in conversation with people all over the world but with each other. So does it bring people together or keeps them insulated in a world that they are more comfortable with?
I totally share your thoughts..As much as I like the fact that the internet helps me keep in touch with friends and family who are far away , I also have this sinking feeling that somehow everybody seems so far away these days ..I would rather be gossiping with my friends over a cup of chai sitting in the balcony rather than on gtalk ..But then again these distances are inevitable and had it not been for the internet I would have lost touch with most of the people I care about..Life as we knew it no longer exists..Virtual world it is then ..
ReplyDeleteI hear you mugdha, and i totally know that i want it around, if not for anything else then just to keep tabs on people i want to keep tabs on :) But sometimes i also miss the human touch. The letters written on paper in one's own handwriting. I miss the romance and the charm and well you know exactly what i mean... err i think :P
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