Stress
There internet from my perspective has really just increased the pace of our society. Despite how it can make communication, information, relaxation convenient, it still is high paced. What i mean by high paced, is that we are all under deadlines, which makes things go faster, and that was have a large deal of stress. I believe western culture, and more specifically north American culture has the highest suicide rate. That is rather depressing when we are the richist culture ever to exists. Maybe that is our down fall, greed. A desire that can never be satiated, that we most always be making more money that they year before, unpresidential growth. The internet is just a symptom of this growth, this existed before the internet and before the use of computers as well.
But computers and technology has made it even more ingrained, blurring the lines between relaxation and work. How often to people go on holidays and have work follow them there, because of emails, cell phones, etc. This high pace work also affects our lives with our friends, every one is connected through cell phones and online programs like facebook, were we frantically log on to get our entertained hit.
Even my life, is just high paced, i have to schedule in friends into my life, and have limited time. I have even lost contact with friends because i have been so busy with my life. I just cannot keep up, i guess in the larger societies, and because our urban centers are so large we do change our time use. yet the alternative, is sitting on a farm and hand plowing the field ALL day trying to feed your family and rent to the rich aristocracy….
