New ways of life?

If I stopped and really thought about how much we rely on all the new technologies, it freaks me out a little. But I'm so glad that I have them, because if I would have to wait for a letter or a postcard to arrive, instead of just logging on to my email account and send an email back home, I would never have come here. It feels good to have your family just a couple of mouseclicks away.
My generation is probably the most technological generation, or at least the one who uses it the most. All the little gadgets we got for everything, like Ipods and mobile phones, really makes us all technological. I guess you could say we have come one with the technological wonders of our time, because they are a part of our everyday life whether we want it or not.

But like everything else in this world, I think this is something we should be careful with. I don't believe that "the Matrix" actually is going to happen, but it is a slight possibility that technologies, one day, will rule our lives more than we do. For some I guess it has already happened.

They asked me to consider if I got any friends whom I only meet on the internet and if I'm different to them than to others. I don't have many, but some there definetly are. Our conversations tend to be pretty normal, but sometimes I catch myself in being someone I'm not at all. I guess if you have never met someone and you talk with them online, you will have more guts and try to be something you're not. On the other hand, I think we should be careful when we are online because there are lots of bad elements out there who could take whatever information you provide and use it for more doubtful arts. For instance, a couple of weeks ago, I saw this clip on youtube about this internet based group of people who collected emails, passwords and nicks all over the web, posted it on their site, and used it to target those unlucky people and harass them in the worst kind of ways. They used death threats, said nasty things, filled up their profiles with gay porn pictures or changed their profile pictures and so on.
This makes online privacy really come into focus. I know I'm pretty careful when I leave information out on the web, or I at least consider if I think it's safe enough to leave personal or sensitive information on sites. It could be really fatal if you, for instance, left your credit-card information on a site which stole your information somehow, and used it to empty your bank accounts.

Not good at all.