I am sometimes in awe whenever I think about how we can do almost everything online these days. Now, there is almost always a robotic and/or virtual orequivalent of every activity you can imagine.
Not so long ago, we were introduced to virtual pets. I mentioned this first because I used to keep a "Tamagochi" in my purse. But I kept neglecting and forgetting to feed and pet it that it eventually died and lost interest in me, before I lost interest in it. Then a few years back, the hubs bought me an iDog. It's a dog-shaped interactive speaker that you can hook up to your CD player or iPod, it whimpers and barks, shakes its head and wags its tail. The hubs got me one because it was shortly after we lost our baby and I was clawing for release from such grief. I knew I wasn't ready for a pet (because I can't keep walking and picking up after it -- a baby is still a different deal, you know what I mean) and so he got me that no-mess pet. It served its purpose for a while.
And then with the internet, everything is practically conducted online. One of the most common activities online is social networking. Who doesn't have a Facebook account these days? And play Farmville or Mafia Wars -- though I don't play those. Even diaries are online now, aka The Personal Blog, though there is a wealth of information you can get from other people's homemade, self-made, personal sites. We conduct business online, we do online transactions -- purchase and ship sites, online services like publishing, graphics, editing, etc. Even people's past times have gone to a different level. Instead of making trips to let's say Reno or Vegas, people visit the Online Casino . Surely an easy, great and convenient way to get one's "game of chance" fix on special occasions. The only thing you will miss is the buffet. I love their buffets! (I love buffets, period!) But going online makes up for it I guess, since you don't need to dress up to play, and not smelling the cigarette smoke that always permeates the air on physical locations is a big plus.
Online gaming. That's another thing. I'm not an online gamer so I don't have much to say but it is worth mentioning because of the big slice of the computer-using population that is into this. My husband is a "small-time" online player. Want to know the secret? He maintains an aquarium online, accesses it through his iPhone app and he's into it every given free time. He would show me his tank/s and newly acquired fishes, the new decors -- the corals, the plants, the works! He even visits other people's tanks and cleans it for them sometimes. I find it cute, the hubs cleaning other people's tanks...(I had to make sure that option is at an anonymous level though -- I don't want some next door hottie pie asking for his help).
Another one I can think of is Online Education -- where you can obtain a degree from within the comforts of your own home, and in your jammies.
This is only the tip of the iceberg. What else can you think of?
Not so long ago, we were introduced to virtual pets. I mentioned this first because I used to keep a "Tamagochi" in my purse. But I kept neglecting and forgetting to feed and pet it that it eventually died and lost interest in me, before I lost interest in it. Then a few years back, the hubs bought me an iDog. It's a dog-shaped interactive speaker that you can hook up to your CD player or iPod, it whimpers and barks, shakes its head and wags its tail. The hubs got me one because it was shortly after we lost our baby and I was clawing for release from such grief. I knew I wasn't ready for a pet (because I can't keep walking and picking up after it -- a baby is still a different deal, you know what I mean) and so he got me that no-mess pet. It served its purpose for a while.
And then with the internet, everything is practically conducted online. One of the most common activities online is social networking. Who doesn't have a Facebook account these days? And play Farmville or Mafia Wars -- though I don't play those. Even diaries are online now, aka The Personal Blog, though there is a wealth of information you can get from other people's homemade, self-made, personal sites. We conduct business online, we do online transactions -- purchase and ship sites, online services like publishing, graphics, editing, etc. Even people's past times have gone to a different level. Instead of making trips to let's say Reno or Vegas, people visit the Online Casino . Surely an easy, great and convenient way to get one's "game of chance" fix on special occasions. The only thing you will miss is the buffet. I love their buffets! (I love buffets, period!) But going online makes up for it I guess, since you don't need to dress up to play, and not smelling the cigarette smoke that always permeates the air on physical locations is a big plus.
Online gaming. That's another thing. I'm not an online gamer so I don't have much to say but it is worth mentioning because of the big slice of the computer-using population that is into this. My husband is a "small-time" online player. Want to know the secret? He maintains an aquarium online, accesses it through his iPhone app and he's into it every given free time. He would show me his tank/s and newly acquired fishes, the new decors -- the corals, the plants, the works! He even visits other people's tanks and cleans it for them sometimes. I find it cute, the hubs cleaning other people's tanks...(I had to make sure that option is at an anonymous level though -- I don't want some next door hottie pie asking for his help).
Another one I can think of is Online Education -- where you can obtain a degree from within the comforts of your own home, and in your jammies.
This is only the tip of the iceberg. What else can you think of?
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I dont want to think what my children can do online when they growing up! hahaha! Everything so convenient online but it makes us lazy. Sitting in front of PC, while we are not facing with much reality there. :p But it is way of life, we cannot escape it right?