One Web Day, Nine Days Later

So yes, here I am approximately over a week late in discussing the importance of One Web Day, but nonetheless, I couldn’t resist the opportunity to discuss the importance of the internet. According to the website, the aim of One Web Day is to “to focus attention on a key internet value, focus attention on local internet concerns, and create a global constituency that cares about protecting and defending the internet.” More or less, it sounds like an information campaign that deals with internet based issues, and why the net is oh-so valuable to us and I won’t deny it, because quite frankly I love it.

Why is the internet so influential in my life? I will tell you why. It’s because the usage of the internet functions as a daily part of my schedule. In the same manner that I shower every morning, I use the internet. It has enabled me to communicate with friends and family members who are living in different countries without any hassles. It has either strengthened my bonds with others or weakened them. As you can see, I can express my wide range of emotions and opinions and if I am even lucky, I may receive feedback from other bloggers. It has definitely made communication much more impersonal for me. Since when have I started using emotion icons to express my feelings? Since MSN took over my elementary school life. Asides from this, the internet allows me to do complete assignments, conduct research and gather information. In essence, it has broadened my horizons.

Information and Communication Technologies such as the internet have allowed us to expand our hobbies, communicate with others, express our opinions, educate ourselves, invest on-line businesses among many other activities. They are a medium that has revolutionized our social, political and personal spheres of life.

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