There are many obvious reasons why the internet is good. But I’d like
to focus on an aspect that
people might not think about unless they have as much idle time as I do.
The existence of the Internet permits many people to have crappy jobs and allow
them to still
tolerate them for a long time. By “crappy”, I refer to jobs that are
stupid, serve no purpose, and
have little or no work. Because of the Internet, one can do nothing all day,
yet still surf a full day and
read worlds of information. For instance, on the days I have no work, I read
the San Francisco
Chronicle, Wall Street Journal, and New York Times. The last two are stellar
publications with
excellent features that normal people with real jobs aren’t able to have
time for. I won’t go into
all the other items of interest on the net, as I’m sure you are aware of
them, but basically, there
is so much interesting and useful stuff on the net, that one can occupy years
doing nothing but
surfing at work. Here are a few of the things.
One can download free e-text books and read them on the screen while making
them look like they are
emails being read. Vacation planning is a cinch with the net. Research your
trip, book plane,
hotel, rental car from your cube. Chat with friends. A great thing about the
net is that you can
email and chat silently (other than key strokes) so you can have discreet conversations
which would
otherwise not be good to have via the telephone. Check you stocks, transfer
funds, etc.
I firmly believe that there is no way I could have tolerated the patheticness
of my various
employments were it not for the Internet What would I have done in the hundreds
of hours the net
has occupied while I’ve been at work? Basically, I would have been forced
to just do even more
useless work than I already do and have done in the past to occupy the time.
I would have used the
phone more and probably taken longer lunches or more breaks, or tried to secretly
read from a paper
book. But most likely, and I am pretty certain of this, I would have had to
quit or been fired
quickly. So the Internet has allowed me to stand the sadness and actually enjoy
it quite a bit.
When I think of the joy and efficiency in information movement the Internet
provides me, along with
the fact that it allows me to stand the utter wasteland of a corporate world
I am unfortunately a
part of, there is only one thought I have that can express my gratitude to this
noble technology:
God Bless The Internet.