When I think about how much I use the internet, I get amazed, for me internet is necessary as the air that I breathe. I feel paralyzed if I don’t have access to it. When I say paralyzed, I’m speaking from experience, every time I travel to Iran I realize that the world I’m living here in Sweden is not the same world when I’m in Iran. Here the first thing I do when I wake up is to turn on the computer and surf the net, and with surfing the net I don’t mean waiting for one page to open for half an hour (which I have to do in Iran), every information I need I get from the internet, whether it’s the weather or the news. In Sweden I know that I can write to a person (email or msn ) and I get reply most of the times immediately, but when I tell this to my friends in Iran they can’t understand the point of communicating by emailing. With this technology I’m always one click away from doing everything that I can, from reaching my goal, this advantage I usually take for granted, sometimes I even get annoyed when I’m two clicks away instead of one. But one of the cons with today’s social medias technologies is that it makes us lazy,10 – 15 years ago, on a Friday night when we wanted to watch a movie we all took a nice walk to the video store , stood there 15 minutes maybe, chose a movie and then bought some snacks and went home. This was a whole experience for the family to be a part of, no one wanted to miss the chance of going to the video store with the rest of the family, these days all the movies are one click away from being downloaded, and it is very clear to see that, there is no fun experience choosing the movie and then watch it. Another thing that I’ve been thinking about is that before when people wanted to social with each other when use to put up a date to meet. Now most of the socializing is through the different medias which prevents us from socializing in person and taking a part of each other’s lives in person, we get lonelier as the time pass by, we talk to the medias instead of a real person. But it is to mention wheatear the social medias are good or bad they are here to stay and the only thing we can do is to accept it and adjust our lives so we can benefit from it.
By Tala Raha
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Well for you internet is like the air, but i can easily live without internet, and i've done it for a lot of years, but without air... brrr... i think it's impossible! However i can feel your digital division, because when i go back home i just have a 56k connection to internet, so for example i got no youtube or dailymotion, but if I want to listen to the music I can turn on a radio. And then the movies, we have kept the habit of seeing it all together, friday night, before going out. Of course, now that I'm in Sweden I can just imagine them watching, but old habits resist!
Giuliano
I liked the idea of "just one click" that people are not tolerating even two clicks to what they want. It shows the improvement of online technologies these days.
You have addressed a negative impact of social media which is replacing the traditional communication ways within your family or friends. I agree but I think less communication with people is one of the consequences of the modern life and online media is just filling this gap.
Finally, about the internet in Iran, I think you havent been there in recent years. Almost all of the companies and most of the households in big cities have cable networks or ADSL. but still some old people who are not heavy internet users prefer to use 56K modems because ADSL connection is expensive comparing to modem using. Dont forget that "Iran boasts one of the most active blogospheres in the world, with 700,000 active blogs" (ref: www.america.gov)
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