Thanks Giving #7

Today I am thankful for the Internet. Between online shopping, online journaling, online friends, online social networking sites and instant message software.. I can keep in touch easily with any and everyone.

I have met some AMAZING people through the Internet that I have yet to meet in real life and some whom I have. Without the Internet, I wouldn’t have near as many amazing friends as I have now. I wouldn’t have the comradery that comes with online friendships.

Thanks to websites like Facebook and Myspace, I have gotten in touch with people that I never thought I’d see or hear from again. Technology has helped me connect with my family that lives overseas. I can now share pictures and see their pictures and keep in touch like we couldn’t before.

With online shopping I am able to buy things for a better price than what I can get in stores. I am also able to shop with convenience from the comfort of my own, in my jammies with unbrushed teeth without being judged. Oh and avoid all of those germies during flu season!

I would have never kept up a paper journal and the Internet has enabled me to keep an online journal since 1998 of my day to day activies. I now have a place to look back on my past and laugh at some of the silly things I used to worry over. I can also keep track of my daughter’s milestones and everything Gene and I have been able to experience together over the years.

Yes, there are a bunch of creeps on the Internet. You have to be super careful nowadays. It’s not near as innocent as it used to be when I first logged on, many many years ago. But with all of the advantages, I think it totally outweighs the bad.

Thank you Internet, for everything over the years!! You have changed my life in a good way.