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Shopping
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Photo Sharing
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The world has one more dimension.
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Computer and network give you a new way to thinking about this world. The whole world shows on the little screen, and also the information. The internet beyond the space and distance, and give human a new way life. The world is a very big place. People lives in different countries and different cites. People used to use mail and phones to connect each other, but it is too slow and low efficiency. In the real world, people have to arrive the specific place to do something. For example, If you want to read a book, you have to go to library or a book store; If you want to buy something, you have to drive to the store to buy them... But world was changed in the internet era. In the internet era, the world was connect closer. People can connect each other easily. email, facebook, twitter give us a new way to transfer information. Information has more meaning in this era. It means knowledge, sharing, communication and propagation. It is a information exploration age. People have never faced a time that information is so easy to get and give.
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Everything have too sides, so does internet. It changed people’s behaviour in a really short time, it also changes our society. It’s difficult to said internet is good or bad, but it did change our world. In the internet age, the world has one more dimension-the virtual world. It created a new life space for us, it called the online life. It separate from our life, but still have a close connection to our real life. This book is about the relation between online life and real life. What is relation can be, and how it affect my life?
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In real world shopping, I have to arrange some time to go to the store, and browse around almost everything on the shelf.
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Find a new way to... Connecting......
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One day I look around my home, and found out I should change my home a little bit before Christmas. I want my room looks different and have some unique items in it. At first I think I can go to the local store to do the shopping, but soon I realize go to the local store doesn’t make much difference. You are going to get the same stuff that was sold by the thousands everywhere in the country. I think I should go online to find some different stuff. In the following days, I browsing different online stores and private seller. I connect the seller to give more information, I also do some research on the items I like. The reviews and feedback from previous buyers help me a lot. I did know much more about the product I look for than any previous shopping experience. Finally, I order my stuff from Amazon because it offer the free shipping and a really good price. This online shopping experience is really good. I don’t need to drive to different store to find the right one, and the better side is, I can do the research at anytime, even when I on the bus or in the coffee shop. I can also compare the price between sellers. Online shopping save my time, my gas and my money. 17
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Online shopping just become part of ordinary life, without much notice.
Clicking... Scrolling...
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After I place my order, I started waiting my stuffs’ arrive. It mean this virtual shopping experience came back to the real life. Even all process was did online, the goods is still real things. After 5 days’s waiting, the boxes arrived. So, I can start decorating my home. This shopping experience was a good example to should how internet changed our life. The shopping used to be “Go out and do the shopping”, now it changed to “stay at home and do the shopping”. It does give the customers more and wider choose, the shopping range enlarges from local store to the whole world. The online shopping is part of the online life. Almost every steps happened on the internet, expect the last thing-final stuff. It show how online life was separated from the real life, and how it still connect the real life.
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Photo Sharing
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Virtual tour is part of my interesting. Inspiring......
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Sending Messages...
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Planning trip
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Virtual tour is part of my interest. I like reading others’ journals or browsing the online photo sharing website. It’s interesting to reading other’s experience because you can see and discover a lot of new place. The virtual tour is a good way to satisfy your curiosity. Although the virtual tour becomes one of the most common thing that people doing on internet, does it means the people will give up or obviously reduce their tour in real life? I think the answer is not.
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Leaving the online life for a while, but it feels good.
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Last week when I was browsing on flick, I found some interesting photos about the wine train in Napa. It seems a good place for having dinner with family and friends. A idea just appeared in my head: should I really go there? First, although Napa is not far away from San Francisco, I still have to drive one and a half hour to there; second, I have already seen everything about the wine train in photos, and I will not feel any surprise when I get there. I had thought about real road trip for a while because of these 2 reasons. Finally, I realized I should really go there with my friends. The virtual tour is different from the real experience. The online browsing only affect your, but we need the really social life in the real world. Although you had already known every details in there, you and your friends were not there together. This fact made the thing became totally different. The virtual experience is only a part of your life experience. Your experience will become different with different people, even in the same place. So, when you are confused about your decision in the similar issue, don’t think too much. You will not regret it if you go there.
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Mobile network changes the modern social life.
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We check phones as frequent as we can. RECEIVing...
The internet just become part of our ordinary life. A lot of signs show this fact: we check our phone frequently; when you seeing something interesting, you will take a photo of it and share it online; If you are looking for a restaurant, you will use Yelp; when you have some question, you open Google or Wikipedia to find the answer... How will the internet affect our social life? The communication becomes much easier with the mobile network. For example, you can keep following the latest status of your friends in any where. You can’t image that 5 years ago.
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Actually, the friend online is not much different from the friend in real life. Socialising......
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The internet make our world smaller, and also make the connection between people more complex. Is it good or bad for our society? It is difficult to answer. A few days ago, when I saw a man sit in a restaurant, had his lunch with his laptop. I was wondering how the internet occupy our life. People uses their internet devices all the time in anywhere. It’s good for people who want to keep following the steps of the world, but it’s also bad because people will become overly dependent on the internet. Every good thing will be evil if you overly dependent or obsessed with it.
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Internet becomes part of our ordinary life.
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The maximum effect of the internet is actually on the daily life of the individuals because indeed there is no aspect of life which is not influenced by the internet and its uses. Life has become drastically smooth and easy over the internet, while in the previous years seeking for a job required several visits to the offices and companies and interviews, these days all what is required is you detail resume emailed to the company’s analysis division which assures you of any possibilities for getting the job instead of waiting and getting rejected in the end. Even in the minor daily life activities like travelling and planning is also related to the internet in some way or the other. Internet can now be used to inquire about the flight timings and delays which make it easier to plan for the departure time. The most interesting aspect of the internet influencing our daily lives is the factor of entertainment. Entertainment no longer demands your money or expense, today you can just log on the internet in your free time and get involved talking to people of similar interests, or watch movies or play games, its all there in the internet.
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