Are You Logged In?
Are you addicted to the Internet? Yeah, I know I am… I always have been, ever since we got our first computer, you know, dial up, back in the stone age, the 90’s. It was nuts. Us kids got maybe an hour on it a day, couldn’t use the phone when someone was on the Internet. Do you remember when you would be on the Internet and someone would pick up the phone and ruin your connection, which would case a fit because you just lost the 47 instant messages you had going on? I had many “virtual” pen pals from around the world. I even met my husband on a random Yahoo Boston chat room. (remember those??) Oh… I guess there was a reason my brother used to call me Miss Clickity Clack and her Imaginary Friends…
When I was a teen, I always had pen pals. Yes, we wrote old fashion snail mail letters, send packages, and every now and then would call each other. I adored all of my pen pals. Once the Internet came along, the anticipation of waiting for a snail mail letter, or receiving a package to come that you weren’t expecting, dwindled. Makes me a little sad. I have joined a few groups on Facebook (mainly Disney ones of course) and we have tried to bring new life to snail mail! We do monthly birthday cards, and also have a few gift exchanges throughout the year. And let me tell you, there is still NOTHING like getting a hand written card in the mail. Well, for me that is.
I try to catch myself though. I’ll say I’m going to bed to read. Next thing I know I’m on my iPad checking my Facebook messages, or on my phone checking in to some random app, saying Hey, I’m here! Or showing someone a quick video. I mean, here I am right now, blog!
My husband is a computer gamer, so sometimes I tell him I loose him to that, but there I am, sitting there chatting with someone on my iPad.
Where am I going with this blog? I’m not to sure. I don’t know that I really want the Facebooking, blog, pinning, tweeting, googleing to stop. I guess I’m just here to say, “Hi, my name is Miss Clickity Clack… and I’m an Internet addict.”