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One night when I was in my first year of college (I started college in my last semester of high school), I was online chatting with friends when I was suddenly IM’d (Instant Messaged) by a SN (Screen Name) I didn’t recognize. Someone who called himself JimiJaymez IM’d me, noting that he noticed from my profile that I lived in Salem/Keizer and that he was looking for people from Salem. We started chatting and I didn’t really think much of it. He said he grew up in Salem and graduated from McNary High (the same high school I graduated from) but was currently residing in San Diego, California and was in the Navy. We started chatting on a regular basis as friends, and then he asked for my phone number. I was reluctant but eventually I gave it to him. He started calling me fairly often but we both were firm on our stances of not wanting a relationship with anyone at that time. To make a long story short, we figured out we had met once before, in my junior year of high school through a mutual close friend, and decided we should meet up again in person. We did so and despite our best efforts to not start a relationship, we quickly fell in love. We are married with two kids now and are happier than ever. So, I have the internet to thank for giving me my wonderful husband and beautiful children.
The internet has grown so much since I helped my dad hook up our first modem 12 years ago. Now Jimi and I enjoy lightening fast DSL internet. He sits on the couch with his laptop and surfs the web wirelessly through an internal modem. At least 75% of my closest friends have faces I have never seen in person and live 3000 miles away from me. I do almost all my shopping online and all of my bills paying, banking, and taxes. I haven’t opened a physical book in years as I read about anything I could ever want to know by simply typing the subject into a Google search engine. I don’t even own a phone book as I toss them as soon as they arrive and rely completely on DexOnline and MapQuest to find phone numbers, addresses, maps, and directions. I book vacations online, I learn about and get inspired for my scrapbooking hobby online, I use my digital camera and upload the pictures online, I threw out my CD collection and listen to all my music online, I participate in clubs and I even attend parties online without ever stepping foot outside of my room.
I sometimes try to think back to the days in my life before I knew the internet existed but it is such a distant memory that it’s hard to even fathom what I ever did without it. Some people fear technology, but as for this girl, I will continue to embrace it and grow old with the internet as a huge part of my life.
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