For me the internet is a space where I can keep up to speed with things in both Australia and my husbands home country of Wales. I read the Sydney Morning Herald online while listening to Welsh radio while the news headlines from the BBC UK RSS feed scrolls along the bottom of my browser window.
Skype has been invaluable asset for keeping in touch with the overseas in-laws and the rest of the family - in fact at Christmas time the family and I Skyped my bother who was in Canada and sat the laptop on the table so he could be involved in Christmas lunch. It kind of felt like we were in the movie Back to the Future but without the flying cars or hovering skateboards!
I tried twitter but didn't like it much and although I do check it every day I am falling out of love with Facebook as reading about peoples trip to the shops, bad driving and what they ate for lunch today really isn't cutting for me at the moment. I can however while away hours on YouTube - this is my favorite time waster of the moment...
Also - thanks to NET102 I now while away hours on blip.fm finding and listening to music.
I shop online, learn online and work for an online store yet still do not feel as if I am an overly plugged-in person as I do not have a iPhone - so once I am away from my desk I am free of on-line connection. My digital self is very much about being present when it suits me, not about being accessible any given time.
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