Those Other Computer Thingies

Today the world is getting smaller in terms of inter connectivity thanks to Internet. We all know the Internet, you know, created for the purpose of exchanging insightful ideas but later tarnished by people who are into furry, scat and other horrible fetishes.

A lot of common everyday stuff is now computer assisted with names that has letter E or I at the beginning like E-Mail, E-Brochure, E-Poke and I-Pad . I am a blogger, a Facebook user and a regular guy who participates in some online message boards, but still there are some computer things that does not apply for me, I just can’t feel it.

My own personal Twitter account
I read some Twits from some celebrities, news sites and friends but I just can’t have my very own Twitter page. I am not that guy who is always connected to the net and starts showering everyone with my updates, clicking the like button left and right and being just active in social media.

Homer Knows Twitter

They say its like a lite version of Facebook status thing, but in Facebook I don’t regularly post statuses, even in this “best time-wasting blog ever ®”, I can’t write anything in regular basis even I do love writing stuff.

Banking, ordering stuff and anything involves with money via the net
The closest thing that I have done with e-banking is just checking out my savings balance online. Even it is user-friendly I still prefer physical contact when I do money transactions. I think it is more reliable talking and interacting with people than rereading FAQs that mostly filled up with bank jargon that may sound gibberish to you.

The Masked Internet Robber at work

I still don’t trust the series of tubes called the Internet when it comes on ordering and transacting stuff online. When I want to have my food delivered I rather dial their delivery number. If there is something I want to buy that is available locally, I will just drive there and buy that stuff. If the stuff is not available locally and can only avail abroad, I just move on especially if it is just a novelty item.

Using Facebook Applications
I only use Facebook for statuses, viewing photos, clicking links and watching videos. Using miscellaneous applications that rampaging throughout the tubes of Facebook is not my thing.

A Super Poke (citation needed)

Some will super-poke me expecting to super-poke them back and receiving lots and lots of gaming or application requests that fills up my notification page that I will drop, probably after a year later.

Reading a whole E-Book in a computer screen
Maybe read an E-Book with less than 20 pages is tolerable enough but reading a complete more than 20 pages E-Book via your screen is nerve wrecking and make my eyes hurt worse than my Bells Palsy experience. The current rush of touch screen products like iPad makes reading E-Books easier. But, having the real physical book is still better than reading E-book for its sheer convenience in reading.

also a good storage for your orange gun collection

Reading a text heavy in a screen with light-colored background is like staring directly in a tungsten light bulb.

Playing online games
The last time I played an online game is way back in my freshmen years in college. Counterstrike is the most popular online game back then and my old computer can actually run that game. Later, when a surge of online games, mostly RPGs popularize by Ragnarök, starts sprouting like flowers I just did not feel like playing it with LAN parties, real competition that encompasses across the world.

and at the same time they are planning a real world domination
via the power of Internet

I love videogames but I just can’t see myself dealing with very complex games and I don’t want to throw some money just to get some good stuff in the games. I still play quick flash-based games from time to time but current wave of online gaming is not my cup of tea.

Listening to podcast
I love listening to radio, it’s already a ritual for me to tune in to Magic 89.9 whenever I drive to work in the morning, and later setting the radio to Jam 88.3 while driving back to good old Las Pinas City. I also listen to online radios but listening to podcast, especially the ones primarily focusing on speaking and no audio or music support whatsoever is not appealing for me, it’s so darn boring.

Seeing guys bored to death is more entertaining

Majority of podcasters out there sounds monotonous and not entertaining. Some of them are just randomly rambling about anything and you wish you can go to that podcasters house, get his wired mic and strangle him with an ease.

You are most likely into the stuff I mentioned above but like what I always say, different strokes for different folks, you may like Twitter but you don’t want to blog yet I like to blog but I don’t want to create and be active over at Twitter. I like the whole internet thing because we can communicate with other people easier; relive nostalgic things in various ways; and of course torrent downloading but some stuff in computer and Internet thingy that I just can’t see myself using in a regular basis.

Internet is serious business… can give you serious issues

We are online at least once a day, like what I always say, being online, through your mobile or in a computer, is very essential tool for our daily lives, it provide us with entertainment, time-wasting activity generator and of course profit. In the end, there should still be a limit of being online and not affecting your real life with all the crap the internet has to offer,  its time to cut off the access before it developed into a full-blown internet addiction, complete with having a session with an Internet addict anonymous group, which unfortunately exists.

Pointless Updates From Out of Nowhere
With the power of mobile internet, you can absolutely use the net anywhere. In the end , you don’t need to put unnecessary and very pointless Facebook status and tweets that only you and your personal stalker will care. Your personal stalker will deed every time you post a single update in directionless intervals, even if it is pointless (like you just ate your favorite ice cream), you saw a celebrity (slightly interesting) or you saw an Elephant crashing from the skies (that is very interesting.)

Your DVD/Beta/VHS/VCD/Laser Disc movie collection is… collecting dust
When was the last time you actually bought an original movie that is in a physical case? in my opinion, movies in physical format is still superior than watching your hard drive eating movies from your computer or other similar devices. It sucks whenever you watched a streaming movie buffers due to your internet speed. At least you are not worrying about disk space of your computer. It is also awkward to watch a movie, in a small screen, shaking like crazy while you are inside of a vehicle, with your headphones on your ears.

Getting REALLY angry in message boards, chatrooms, etc
Message boards is a way to interact with other people, some good but mostly dicks. Don’t go bonkers whenever you read something that is not right, like someone responding negatively from your entry. Maybe have a respond and have a good debate of some sort but don’t bring it up in real life. If you can’t let go your rage because someone fought you online with harsh words and emoticons with angry faces, which should not bother you in the first place, just find any flash games that involves explosions and shooting to release your anger.

You can’t last a short time without checking your email
It’s okay to check your email regularly, especially if it is work related, but there are times you don’t need to check your email, especially if you are in appropriate place and time, like in a funeral or having a well deserved vacation. You don’t need to keep on clicking the “new mail” every chance you can, even if it is clearly there is no fresh email arriving. It is not your problem if someone from a different time zone, country and with “all work no rest” mentality send you an email with a time stamp of 2:32 AM local time, and you go in a paranoid trance because you did not get a chance to read his email, at 2:32 AM, wherein you should be resting and catching some zzzs. That is why there is a determined work time at the office, that’s when you can check the email from a guy that has no life.

Constantly checking updates
Opposite of you constantly updating your status. This time, you are the one, probably the personal stalker of someone, stares at the screen, awaiting for any kind of update since you know the person is online. You just can’t wait to know what he ate for his lunch, was it a Tuna sandwich his dear mother made or a corned beef sandwich he taken from a gasoline station from the other side of the city? This disorder also applies to surfers who refreshes a web page with a patterned interval just to see a latest update, even if the writer of the site is somewhere taking a coffee break.

You are more productive in online games than in real life
You earn millions, has a set of houses and have a successful restaurant, all in online game formats of course. In real life, you barely reached a substantial income every month, you still pay to your run down house, and still eating in same old restaurant. If you can be productive in online games, even if the premise were ridiculous and easy to win, just use that drive in real life to be successful in real life. Who knows, using your own developed strategies raising cattle online is the way to lead you in a better tomorrow.

Just use the Internet in moderation, even if it is redundantly everyday. Just balanced everything and remember that the most important thing ever is that you have a life outside of all those cables and tubes called the Internet