We probably cannot imagine life without the Internet these days. In many aspects of our daily lives, the Internet helps us. Thanks to the Internet, we can be present almost anywhere and witness every important situation that happens in the world.
This invisible modern ally is irreplaceable, and its role is not only to inform, but also to entertain, manage, and countless other things. It connects the whole world without us realizing it, but this connection is not always a positive one. Do we realize what information we are entrusting to the network? The network carefully packages and stores that information.
Today, people have an inordinate desire for self-control. People share with each other the routes they run, the places they run, the regularity and frequency of their runs, and other runners see it too, but who is looking over their shoulders? Even a relaxing activity like sports has been transformed by the Internet into an online mashing led by the mass collection of information and electronics.
Society today acts as if the Internet is oxygen. We cannot live or breathe without the Internet. We are addicted to seeing what others are doing and how we compare to them, and we often forget the essence of life, where a “Wi-Fi” connection has not always occupied such a fundamental place. Many people seem to be doing things for how they present themselves on social media, not for themselves or their own satisfaction.
But isn\’t that going a little too far? Is the Internet really that important to us, a world of 1s and 0s, where some of us spend more time with our online friends than with our real world peers? But we are all living beings, and we all have a certain amount of time to live, and one day it will run out. Maybe it\’s time to say enough is enough, open our eyes, and accept reality.
The irony of the Internet is that it also provides applications to make us aware of how much time we are spending. Many readers will know that they can easily calculate how many hours they have spent online today and will be astonished at the size of the number on the screen.
