Internet Life

I wake up. What is my first thought? Breakfast? No. Brushing teeth? No. Not even stretching or breathing crosses my mind before I look right at my computer and wonder who has ventured on over to my Facebook profile.

Three new notifications. Score!

Hotmail is my next stop. I delete most and reply to the few emails that mean something, before crossing over to the land of Formspring. After that comes Dailybooth and then I continue on to Stumble the internet for a cool website that will catch my interest.

I get ready and continue on with my day, but not with out checking my phone for new Facebook messages and replying to the many Tweets that come to my phone.

Once I get home, I'm right back on Facebook and checking email just as I had done earlier that day. I continue to Stumble onto new websites, write in my blog and catch up with people on Dailybooth until I look at the clock and think 3 a.m. is late enough. I drift off to sleep, knowing that my day will repeat itself in the morning.

Sadly, this is a day in the life of a friend of mine. He's constantly on the internet or checking his phone/ipod touch for new messages on any of his social networking sites. I don't understand this. After realizing that most of his friendships are with people he has never met and doesn't really plan to meet, and that he is CONSTANTLY on the internet somehow, I have seen the world in a new light. I do know that my friend isn't the only one in the world who's life has been taken over by the internet. I've realized that there are many other lost souls among the sea of websites that are going through the same daily routines. But I just don't get it. How can a person spend their life wrapped up in all this?

I came up with a few could be answers to this question.

#1

Social life is easier in the virtual world.

Although I completely disagree with this, some people really do have trouble talking to people face to face and find it easier to just type how they feel or what they think. Having more personal rather than electronic relationships aren't really a huge deal for them.

#2

They can be whoever they want.

Tons of people wish they could be someone else. Meeting people on the internet could give these people the confidence they need to become who they truly want to be.

#3

They have become so wrapped up in their internet life that they don't realize it is their life.

This lifestyle could be the only one they've known. I mean they've done it long enough. They might know their way around the internet better than they do real life. Internet life is their REAL life.

Who knows the real reasons people take on an internet life. In my opinion too much of a good thing could turn out to be bad, and until people realize....... the internet will continue to be their life.