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Essay on The Internet As A Means Of Entertainment
| Date: |
12-07-00 1:21pm |
| Subject: |
Social Issues |
| Word Count: |
438 |
| Page Count: |
1.75 |
The Internet as a means of entertainment
The
Internet as a means of entertainment
If somebody had told me five years ago
that I would spend all of my free time in front of my computer screen I
would have called him crazy. For me outdoor life has always been much more
interesting than staying at home. It took me just one night to realize
how important the Internet is for me. That night I spent seven whole hours
on-line, just entertaining myself. I now believe that the Internet is quite
an effective means of entertainment because I can download pictures, songs
and videos, chat and communicate with other people and also play network
games.
I was really amazed at how interesting
information someone can find on the net. Anyone can easily find real funny
stories, jokes, poems or entire magazines for free. One can also download
pictures of friends, popular actors or favorite singers. Imagine a personal
collection of rare pictures of Ricky Martin hanging on your wall "for your
eyes only"! Moreover, anyone further interested can download and store
songs and their lyrics, videos and games.
In addition to the entertaining material
you can find on the World Wide Web, is an excellent way of making new acquaintances
or even friends. People with similar interests can share information with
one another through electronic mail and chat rooms. E-mail is enabling
radically new forms of worldwide human collaboration. Approximately 225
millions of people can send and receive it and they all represent a network
of potential cooperating individuals. Mailing list discussion and on-line
conferencing allow us to gather together to work on a multitude of projects
that are interesting or helpful to us. Internet Relay Chat (IRC) and ICQ
(I seek you) are two of the most important programs that provide chat rooms,
instant messaging and mailing lists that can connect groups of users to
discuss a topic, share ideas and get to know each other.
However, the most entertaining thing you
can do when you are connected is play on-line network games. People from
all over the planet can play from "Doom clone" games to flight simulating
games simultaneously. There are inexhaustible sources of games available
for playing, with plenty of different varieties of each type of game. What,
however, could be considered as the most amusing fact of playing network
games is that you can play against another "intelligence" instead of the
computer.
Was it worth spending seven hours in front
of my PC? It definitely was because I met many interesting people and made
new friends, downloaded my favorite songs and pictures and played exciting
games. Perhaps spending the entire night enjoying myself was a little bit
exaggerated but the experience was amazing. I would absolutely urge everyone
to use the Internet as a means of entertainment as long as they use it
wisely and up to a degree.
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