Writing At Hofstra

So here I am at Hofstra, and I am blogging. Writing online makes me feel...

...like a bit of a liar, because I'm not actually at Hofstra writing this. But more to the point, writing online makes me appreciate how far we've come technologically. I'm used to writing stuff online by now, I do it a lot, whether on Facebook, Twitter, AIM, or commenting on a video or post on another site. I can't imagine most people older than I am ever expected the internet to become the normal medium for sharing ideas in our society. But I grew up with a computer, and I guess I always assumed they would just keep getting better and better, not that I was thinking in the context of improving as a means of communication. I just assumed I'd be able to do more and more with one as I got older, and I was right. Personally I like the fact that communication has gotten so much easier. Opinions are shared much faster on things like posts and videos that wouldn't even have existed to comment on years ago before the internet became so widely used. I like the idea of being able to tell someone something or show them something right away, or that if I want to write something and post it online, I can be reasonably sure that someone somewhere is going to find and and read it. It's sort of a scary thought but in a way its kind of cool because that person would not have any idea what I was thinking if we had never entered into the digital age.