LambdaCore: This is a looong post...

I like internet. I love it, actually: entertainment and information, all you want, when you want it. The new hardware (computers every time smaller and cell phones with more and more functions) give you the power to have access to it from almost any place you are. The new software and websites give you more and more things to do. And as much as some people try to resist, it’s apparently in vain; society changes, adapts to the new technologies, and uses them just like any other “tool”: yesterday, corporations had to make a giant sign with lots of colours and something funny, and that was advertising, while today all those big images are seen in a screen, whether it’s a computer’s, a phone’s, a “tablet’s”, or whatever.

However, a lot of people don’t seem to see the inconveniences or even dangerous aspects about all this. Some time ago you met people through friends, or friend’s friends, and if you liked each other sometimes you asked for their phone numbers, and after a lot of time you could say you were friends. Now, you can send an application to some unknown person, and after a click, you are “friends”. If you’re not careful, anyone can contact you and/or see everything you write or upload, like photos. And even if you are careful, nothing assures you it won’t happen. It’s like psychopaths paradise.

I, as an example, always used instant messaging software, like MSN Messenger, but never gave some of the information that it sometimes asked. I never gave my address, of phone number, or any other identification than my name, and sometimes it wasn’t even the real one. I never trusted anyone on the internet, and surely corporations weren’t the exception. When MSN died (R.I.P.) I had to move to facebook to stay in touch with most of that people, and at the same time I found that that was my limit. Never used Twitter, nor Tumblr, or Instagram, or whatever they’re called. Actually, I never used blogs before this English course. Everything else, where I don’t need to identify myself, is welcome.
On the other hand, talking about hardware, I never worry about new things because I have everything I would need… besides I don’t have money. What I really like are videogames, so the new consoles are something for me to see and, if possible try, but a pair of glasses that project a map while you walk, or show you the face of the person you are talking to? Why would I want that?