I think the internet created a different type of social communicating that did not exist twenty years ago. With the invention of webpages, chatting, blogs, forums, and online video games - I feel like there has been a loss of face to face verbal connection. I’m connected to you, my reader, right now - even though we could be hundreds of miles apart in different nations, on different parts of the world. I wonder how much our mass media and the internet has changed the way I interact with others.

Compare these two lists:

Internet | Email | Cell phone | Blogs | Website | Television | Radio

Books | Hand Written Letters | Sketching | Journals | Silence | Prayer

I feel this need to connect socially to other people. I looked at the address book in my phone, and I have 295 people in my cell phone, just a few clicks away. Most of the numbers are other people’s cell phones - and they can receive my call in just seconds; I have 102 people in my e-mail address book, that I correspond with on a regular basis or need to send them a digital message every now and then.
I have a chatting program username, profile on blogging website like Xanga, and a social network called facebook - and it hit me the other day how addicted I feel to the internet.  At what level does my internet and digital life take over my personal one?