What is Internet?

The Internet has been a silly media addiction of mine ever since I was introduced to it about a decade or so ago. When the term Web 2.0 was coined in 2004 as a new business concept concieved in the cyber dimension, it initiated many new features to the Internet that I, for one, have been an active user of without even knowing it.

The video relates the power of web 2.0 and how it has impacted the life of just one man. Web 2.0 has definitely changed the lives of others in more ways than one.

To me, the Internet has allowed me to travel the world and more without leaving the cosy walls of my home. It embodies a whirlpool of knowledge that could be easily accessed just a click away. How exactly has the Internet changed my life?

- Facebook has allowed me to meet people from across the globe, people who are culturally different but yet share similar interests in so many other areas.
- Gaming experience has evolved with the multitude of games offered online.
- Blogging provides me a place to pen my thoughts, a dimensionless space to vent my frustrations.
- Daily news can be as easily attained without caring if my fingers would turn black from the recycled paper.
- Just like any girl who loves shopping, whatever material thirst can now be quenched with products from stores only available overseas through online shopping.
- The mass music archive online can easily satisfy my music obsession and so too can movie archives with my film fixation.

And these are just to name a few.

Our dependency on the Internet has left us feeling handicapped and unnecessarily agitated when our computer breaks down or when the internet connection simply won't work. It has become the core of daily functions and is stealthily taking over our lives. It has provided us with vast knowledge and novelty ways of performing daily routines. Taking it away leaves us disabled and helpless to a certain extent.

So is the Internet truly a friend or foe?