The Choice

I use the Internet almost daily.  I think it's a wonderful thing and has opened many resources for us.  Like my last post, I don't necessarily surf the web or check my emails everyday, but I mostly use it for school.  I have to have a full-time schedule in order for me to get all my GI Bill benefits and with online classes that SEMO offers, I can do that while working full-time. 

In some ways, I think the Internet is great, but there are ways that it can be bad.  For instance, you can pretty much find anything you want to online.  You can type in a math problem that you are having trouble figuring out, or don't want to spend the time trying to figure it out, and more than likely someone else has posted something about it.  I don't feel like that's really learning, because you may find the answer for that problem, but will you remember how to do it on a test. 

What I do like it for, is if someone can sing just a little bit of a song, you can type that in, and it will tell you name of that song.  If you can name some characters in a movie, but can't remember the movie, just type in that character's name and it will tell you all of their movies. 

I haven't really seen any changes in the way I think or my behavior when it comes to technology.  I have an Iphone and I love it.  It allows me to keep in touch with whoever I want to keep in touch with.  Facebook allows me to see how my old friends are doing, or family members that live far away. 

I don't let the Internet control my life, and if you do, well that's ok to, I don't see anything wrong with it.  Some people can sit on the computer all day long, and have a great time.  Me, I'm just an outdoorsman. 

 

This picture doesn't reflect how I feel about technology, just made me laugh.