Now that's a question I would like an answer to. Because it seems that nowadays everything happens on the internet, rather than in reality.
It's probably why our parents seem to have had such a different childhood from our own. Maybe because at that time there was no Y!M on which to sign in and chit-chat 'till your fingers hurt, maybe because they used the phone or wrote letters instead of getting themselves Id's and all that crap.
Because let's face it, all teenagers use the internet. Either for research or chat rooms, they use it. And eventually end up using Messenger and lose whatever life they had. Have you ever wondered why everyone finds it so easy to talk on the internet? Because it's a virtual talk, you can lie all you want, you can pretend all you want. No one will know except for yourself. You can borrow a fake id and do whatever you want.
But real life is much more than that. It's much more than emoticons expressing how you "feel", it's much more than words said but mostly not meant. Real life is talking to someone face to face, being able to read the person's emotions and reactions. Even talking on the phone is better, because you can tell so much from someone's voice that you can't when busy to reply in a chat.
So what's the best of the two? Sure, it's easy to use the internet and sure, it may be more practical than to take the time to meet someone to talk. That's way too much time when you can just sign in and talk to several people at once, right?
Well, maybe I'm the odd one here, but I think life should be more than fake id's and pretend. I'll admit, I turn to the internet sometimes...but mostly when I feel I can't handle a situation talking to someone. It's so much easier to sit in your room where no one can see you and say what you want, so long as you are not confronted about it and people take it for granted... But try living from time to time... leave the computer and your id, and see the world for what it really is. Playing games all day and getting informed via internet about what life is all about is not living, just false pretense...
It's probably why our parents seem to have had such a different childhood from our own. Maybe because at that time there was no Y!M on which to sign in and chit-chat 'till your fingers hurt, maybe because they used the phone or wrote letters instead of getting themselves Id's and all that crap.
Because let's face it, all teenagers use the internet. Either for research or chat rooms, they use it. And eventually end up using Messenger and lose whatever life they had. Have you ever wondered why everyone finds it so easy to talk on the internet? Because it's a virtual talk, you can lie all you want, you can pretend all you want. No one will know except for yourself. You can borrow a fake id and do whatever you want.
But real life is much more than that. It's much more than emoticons expressing how you "feel", it's much more than words said but mostly not meant. Real life is talking to someone face to face, being able to read the person's emotions and reactions. Even talking on the phone is better, because you can tell so much from someone's voice that you can't when busy to reply in a chat.
So what's the best of the two? Sure, it's easy to use the internet and sure, it may be more practical than to take the time to meet someone to talk. That's way too much time when you can just sign in and talk to several people at once, right?
Well, maybe I'm the odd one here, but I think life should be more than fake id's and pretend. I'll admit, I turn to the internet sometimes...but mostly when I feel I can't handle a situation talking to someone. It's so much easier to sit in your room where no one can see you and say what you want, so long as you are not confronted about it and people take it for granted... But try living from time to time... leave the computer and your id, and see the world for what it really is. Playing games all day and getting informed via internet about what life is all about is not living, just false pretense...
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