Pry it from my cold, dead hands
I’ve been using email and the Internet (in varying forms) since 1992.
While I’m really not good about replying to emails, I’m very good about sending snippets out and about, to OmegaDad, to GrannyJ, to varying friends and relatives. A link here (”Oooh. This is interesting!”), a photo there (”Hey. Here’s the dotter’s school pic.”), reminders (”Pick up some milk on the way home, and we’re out of cat food.”), a kml file (”Look at the aurora map!”), a YouTube video (usually a funny one).
I read the news online; I have the local blatt bookmarked, so I know what’s going on around Small Alaska Suburb and Big City, I have Small Mountain University Town’s newspaper bookmarked (though I haven’t been reading it much lately, which is an indicator of finally moving on, I guess), I have MSNBC and CNN bookmarked.
Every morning, I check out Nielsen’s daily Top 40 news stories and Technorati’s “Popular in News” listing.
I am on IM during the working day, so I can communicate with my boss and coworkers.
When we move into a new home, one of the first things I do is set up the utilities. These days, Internet access is a “utility” to me, and it has been for years.
All of that said, read about another child of the connected age, being forced to isolate himself from his connections.
Think about it. You’re used to the connectivity. You’re constantly in casual touch with friends, relatives, coworkers. You’ve even gathered together a community that spearheaded your election victory with “MyBarackObama” social networking.
And now…now…your security officials are telling you you must give it up while you are the president.
Ooog.
I couldn’t do it. Give up my email? My IM? My blog? No more quick dips into the Internet stream to see what the daily zeitgeist is? No zipping over to Los Angeles news sites to see what the status of the SoCal fires is? No link to the weather?
It’s one thing to turn it all off while on vacation; that’s just a week or two. But for four or eight years?! Ack. No.
You’ll get my Interwebs from me when you pry it (them?) from my cold, dead hands!
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