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Tuesday, 12 June 2007 |
Hi, my name is Clair and I am an Internet addict.
It’s true- I am. Sometimes I even lie to people about how long I have spent on the Internet just because I think they’re going to judge me and my Internet usage.
But I have finally accepted this vise, and I am willing to come out and tell people about why I think the Internet is the most amazing tool in the world and try to offer advice on all that it has to offer.
I
was offered the position of Associate Editor for Online Operations at
The Appalachian last year and have spent 12 months of my life learning
as much as I possibly can about Web sites.
Prior to accepting this position, I knew how to check my e-mail and
that was about it but now the Internet and I are involved. Web sites
and I have a love-hate relationship that involves staring deeply into
each other’s eyes (or screens) for hours on end.
I have cried over my keyboard many times out of frustration, and I have
gotten up and danced around my computer out of pure joy when I found
something I thought I would never come across again.
To begin, I will talk about everyone’s favorite: You Tube. I am a huge
youtube.com enthusiast and do not have a TV in my apartment because I
strongly believe that I can find plenty to watch online.
On youtube.com you can watch TV shows, concerts, home videos, documentaries, stand up comedy—just about anything you want
If you are not into sorting through millions upon millions of videos
but like the idea of watching TV on the internet, you can go to any
large network’s Web site and watch half of their shows from their
homepage. It’s true, go to NBC.com, VH1.com or WB.com, they all have
plenty of shows and episodes you can choose from.
If you don’t watch TV or just bought a huge TV and want to watch the
real thing, it’s OK, there are other great things on the Internet for
you - like information!
Endless amounts of information -- millions of virtual pounds of books.
More knowledge for you to grasp than any library you’ve ever been to in
your life.
One of the most amazing sites to soak up information is Wikipedia.org.
I’ve used Wikipedia.org to help jolt my memory when I am studying for a
test and can’t find something in my notes. It isn’t possible that every
stinking detail on their site is perfect all the time, but it can
certainly give you the basic framework for a topic.
I also used Wikipedia to look up drink recipes before I went to a
bartending interview and used it to look up foi gras when I was filling
out an application for a fancy restaurant in the area.
The site is incredible, and I honestly can’t imagine how much my life
would change if I couldn’t use it at least once a day. It sometimes
gets a bad wrap from educators and researchers, but it really is an
incredible pool of knowledge.
So Youtube.com gives me my entertainment, Wikipedia.com gives me my
information and helps me get through job interviews and tests. What
else could I need? News.
News is obviously a very important online aspect considering I am
majoring in journalism and work for a newspaper. I get 90 percent of my
news from online.
CNN.com, MSNBC.com, Washingtonpost.com, Theapp.appstate.edu,
Wataugademocrat.com, Aljazeera.net, BBC.com -- I could not live without
them.
It’s not because of their articles either, but because of their
multimedia presentations, their video and audio content, their photo
slideshows and anything else they put only online.
Go to these sites, find their multimedia sections and I swear you will be hooked for hours.
The sites I mentioned in this article don’t even begin to scratch the
surface of what I can’t get enough of on the Internet…in fact this is
just a guide for beginners.
So those of you who are stuck on Facebook.com or World of Warcraft
night after night, try something new. I promise you won’t be
disappointed.
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