I'm majoring in IT so I'm learning all kinds of things about computers from how they work to how they network, store data transport data, and backup data. I was always wondering how they kept track of people's credit ratings, financial information, investments, property, criminal background checks, before computers? Did they have all this information filed on paper documents in file cabinets? How were they able to find people's credit rating and adjust their investments and stocks so quickly? People had to get phone calls from landline telephones and then walk to file cabinets and mail things. Phone and mail was the only way to communicate. It could take months for identity theft to be detected and for information to be sent out. I just don't see how we were able to make it all work before computers?

I feel like our world is becoming more and more integrated online is not healthy for us. We should have a variety of ways we communicate with people not just digitally. Every year I find myself spending more and more time on the computer to the point where I am sitting at one as much as possible. For one thing, it has replaced a lot of things we used to do other ways. We used to mail more and drive around more to meet people in person to communicate. Now we communicate with them online. The internet has simplified our lives but at the same time I feel like it has separated us from more important things in life. I can't quite explain what it is, but something just doesn't feel right. Somebody want to help me out with what I'm feeling?

It feels like we are creating a generation that grows up communicating with people through images/videos and text instead of physically in person. You don't find that girl that likes you by texting her on facebook twitter or you phone. You don't meet that girl in the library google searching. You don't get that good feeling of hanging out with good friends by texting them. You can have a little of that feeling online, but it isn't the same as the real thing. I fear we are creating a society of socially awkward and isolated people that resort to digital communication for everything just because it is easier. Even when we are in public we are so busy texting and/or listening to our MP3 players and other digital devices that the people we are surrounded by in public are pretty much irrelevant to us in public too. I'm guilty of this myself, but in a way I feel like I'm forced into this lifestyle of digital communication cause physical social isolation because everyone else does it and nobody seems to show any interest in their surrounding people anyways.