Activity Log and Blog

For the past four days or so I have been keeping a detailed log of when I go on the internet and where I go when I am on the internet. I suppose that some people would be surprised by some of the websites they go to without really thinking much about it at the time, but I was not affected very much at all when I read my internet activity log. Before starting the log, I knew what my reasons were for using the internet and the activity log just confirmed them. Whether it’s going on automotive forums, blogs, or watching videos on youtube; I would say that approximately eighty percent of my internet activity is automotive related. The other twenty percent consists of a mixture of learning about and acquiring music, looking up school information, and just looking up information on other subjects that interest me. Even when I look up information on other subjects, usually they have to do with some science or type of mathematics. Also, every now and then a friend will send me some video from youtube or another similar website that is usually funny or ridiculous in some way, but I don’t think I have ever just gone and started searching for them myself. I am sure that my internet activity must seem quite boring relative to many other people’s, but the internet is a tool for gathering information of interest, so that is why I use it.

Although I was not surprised about where I went on the internet, I was actually a bit surprised at how often I used the internet and my computer in general. Usually the first thing I do when I wake up is turn my computer on and the last thing I do before I go to sleep is turn my computer off. Even when I am doing something else, such as school work, I am usually either doing it on my computer, or doing while using my computer. It seems that the computer has become so effortless to use and such a vast resource for information that it can now be included in almost everything people do throughout their day.

Although I spent so much time using my computer, according to my log I never once went to myspace, facebook, twitter, or did any blogging of my own. I am not very interested in learning about people’s personal lives and what they are doing every minute of the day, nor do I very much care to tell people about my personal life. Therefore, things like myspace, facebook, twitter, and blogging never really interested me very much. I mean, I don’t even have a myspace, facebook, or twitter account, and the only blogs I ever go to just show pictures and videos of the latest automotive race or event. In my opinion, all of those things are really just irony at its best. They were all created with the advertised idea of bringing people together and increasing “connectivity”, but really all they are doing is just making relationships between people more and more impersonal and digital. It gets to the point where people would just rather look someone up on facebook too see what they are doing instead of actually picking up a phone to talk to them. Also, just to add a little more irony, nowadays those phones, on which people have become so unwilling to actually talk, are usually the devices that they are using to go on facebook, twitter, and myspace. I am sure many would disagree with me, but that is how I see things.