Sometimes I wonder if we would be more involved in our lives, our communities, our world without the Internet. Maybe we’d seek better, more effective ways to change certain realities.

I would suggest that you reduce your perception of the internet to a tool that you use to do exactly what the last phrase in your sentence says; “seek better, more effecient ways to change certain realities”. I’m sure the internet can do that, and more, but it’s that “more” that you don’t want!

You never know who you may have influenced in this realm. In a funny way it is like prayer…sometimes you see the answer, sometimes you don’t. Sometimes the answer is yes, or no, or wait; but there is always more happening in the unseen than we can know.

اعتقد انك قد اطلت الغيبه عسى ان يكون في الجعبه شيء جديد , كيف ادفع الخمس ليرات لك , افيدونا ولكم جزيل الشكر
والسلام ختام

Rebecca, this is the thing I love most about the Internet too. And you’re right, we suggest things and we come up with new creative ideas but more often than not we don’t follow that with actions. It’s like what we do online remains online for some reason. Maybe because of lack of human interaction??

Iman, I go through phases when I wish I don’t have Internet in my life, but that’s just me being never satisfied with anything.

a) leaving an idea, a piece of information, an insight, an interesting weblink in one’s head, lost to everyone in the world but oneself; and

b) transferring it to a blog entry for “potential” sharing with another being or multiple beings (who will potentially share it …)

Moreover, I don’t believe that it has to be either blogging or other forms of activism. One can do both.

The Internet could be used as one tool to help us achieve the goal of bettering our communities, our lives …how you use it shapes the effect it has on you and your daily life…

Personally, sometimes I hate it and would love to get away from it … Sometimes I wish my job didn’t have to involve anything that has to do with computers, networks, databases, connections, etc.