For many years the internet has made information available to the public in a quick and easy manner. It has helped people in many different ways, such as providing entertainment, helping people find answers to problems, allowing people to communicate more, and also shopping online.
Since the internet keeps advancing and becoming apart of our everyday lives, we depend on it a lot more. Now days the internet has various different activities for us to do compared to the early days of the internet. Today, the internet allows us to watch videos on YouTube, search questions on Google, send emails on Hotmail, purchase items from Amazon, and video call with our family members and friends through Skype.
The internet has played a significant role in my life for a very long time now. When I was young, I'd sit with my older brothers and sister sometimes when they'd use the internet because I was always interested in getting to know how to work the internet better. When I started getting the hang of it, I started using the internet to play video games whenever I was bored. This may sound weird, but I actually think by playing all those video games as a kid allowed me to advance my knowledge with the internet. Now that i'm a teenager, the internet often helps me when I have difficulty with my homework, it allows me to research for answers to situations that I don't know the answer to, and it also allows me to communicate with family and friends that live far away. The internet was a big part of my life because my generation grew up when the internet began getting more advanced.
There are many things the internet has helped me with; travel expenses, concert tickets, communication, etc. When my family and I were planning our trip to California for the summer of 2010, we looked online to find good deals that we could book for our flight and we also looked on various different websites to look for a vacation home that would fit all 8 of us. Luckily we found a house that was located a block away from downtown Hollywood that could fit up to 8 people. The internet allowed us to find better pricing than we would have found with a travel agent and enjoy the fact that we were only 1 block away from all the excitement. The internet also helps me whenever my favourite artists have concerts because my sister can use her credit card and easily pre-order our concert tickets and we don't have to worry about the concert being sold out. For example, in the summer of 2011, Chris Brown came to Toronto and it was a big deal because it was the first stop of his FAME Tour. Before tickets were available to anyone else, a radio station in Toronto, "Flow 93.5", had tweeted a code that allowed people to pre-order their tickets. I remember clearly, I woke up at 9:00AM (which is very rare for me) the day that tickets were up for pre-ordering and I got my sister to use her credit card and the code.
In conclusion, without the power of the internet, I have no idea how the world would be today. The internet plays a very significant role in not only my life, but to majority of the population. It allows us to stay
connected to people around the world, search for answers to situations, shop online, and many other things. The internet will continue to be a resourceful source to the world.
I've had some of the same experiences. I went to Chicago just after Christmas in 2010, and needed a hotel room for just one night. I used one of the online 'last-minute' hotel room bookers, and ended up with a fantastic room in the heart of downtown Chicago (right at one end of the Magnificent Mile). I have also gotten tickets to many concerts by looking at bands' websites to see early announcements of concerts, and getting the 'pre-sale' tickets.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was younger, I always had to be one of the suckers standing in line waiting for the tickets to go on sale, and hoping that they wouldn't sell out by the time I got to the front.