I have been a big fan of the Internet ever since I discovered it. It helps us be connected with a far greater number of people than ever before and it is an extraordinary powerful tool in achieveing almost anything.
However, being always connected and keeping up to date with everyone you've ever known, does it really help with adding real human value to our lives?...
Does knowing what our friends are doing and thinking prevent us from actually poping a question and finding out how they really are? Does having over 1000 Facebook friends mean that they will all be there for us to share an important moment?
I remember the times when I used to send and recieve letters. Yeah, letters on paper, written with a real fountain pen, with careful caligraphy and sometimes bearing scents and drawings. I used to love waiting for these letters and kept on reading them over and over again.
Perhaps the fact that a certain effort was invested in writing a letter made us appreciate it more... Nowadays, I have a feeling that even text messaging and e-mailing requires a big stock of interest towards someone to actually use our laptops and blackberries and send out a message. Things have become so much easier and that made us lazier. We do in fact have more free time than ever in history and we still fail to keep in touch, simply because we know way too many people.
Probably, the moral of all these is that we simply need to invest a bit more energy (whether that means texting, e-mailing, poking, smoke messaging or whatever else) in what really counts.
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