I am one of those people who loves to learn. The internet has become an amazing tool in the quest for knowlege. I could spend 10 hours a day just perusing through wikipedia. But watching tutorials on youtube is also fun. The internet has become a great way to study both our loxal culture and observe how the international culture has changed. I think that in 20 years we as a species will be closer ever than before thanks to global conectivity.
The internet is my friend. because of my cell phone, I am never more than five feat away from it during the day. This might sound sad, but I don't see my belief in the internet as a social cry for help, rather I see it as a way of being able to see past people's outward apearances and make quick long lasting friendships opver thousands of miles. There is nothing tangable to the internet nor does there have to be. Just by logging onto this website I can answer hundred of questions aday, spread the accumulated knowlege around and possibly make someone smile form afar.
Could I live without the internet? of course I could, but it would be like loosing a beloved friend. I think we all would share in this sense of loss. It wouldn't be such a crime to loose the googles and youtubes of our world, but the vast collection of human experience, triumphs and misfortunes, encouragements and hateful slurrs. We would all loose our connecito to the bigger picture. And after tasteing it, I doubt any of us would ant to go back. But if we had to, we would. perhaps we would end up finding pen palls or something, Like they did beofre. We have always been searhcing for the answers to our mundane daily lives, the internet has made it possible to live the life of an anonymous investigator, a clossest rpg geek, change our sexual identities with the application of our profiles, and we share it with our friends, the world, and we all revel in it don't we?
That is what I like about the intenet.