One+Thing



When pondering my one thing which I need and use the most, I would have to say that it is the Internet. I know it makes me sound like I have no life, and maybe I don't. But I use the Internet for all sorts of things, and it has helped me in many ways. The Internet is my main method of communication with friends and the outside world, so much easier than getting people's phone numbers, and people are often more likely to reply on the Internet. I resort to the Internet for entertainment and information, along with school help and creative outlets, even learn totally new things. You can learn almost anything from the Internet. I've learned how to tie a tie, how to flip a butterfly knife, how to lace shoes in interesting ways, make a tripwire, make a laser security grid, how to use free photo editing software, how to make an oil lamp with bacon grease, how to make almost everything out of duct tape, and even make bacon donuts. Using the Internet I've found great music, and some great free music. I've read about all sorts of strange and amazing things, and gotten my share of news that nobody much cares about to put on the TV or radio. The Internet has even banded together its people to send Justin Beiber to North Korea. The Internet is also a place where you can buy damn near anything ever made. Books, games. movies, music, toys, TV's, knives, stripper pants, belt buckles, uranium, drugs, laser weapons, battle tanks, and custom pens. The Internet is also a place where you can get not everything but lots of things for free, and where Swedes and their lawyers can tell Dreamworks to do unholy things with an iron rod and take legal action against Dreamworks if they don't stop harassing them. Although there are all sorts of shady characters on the Internet, studies have shown that there's nowhere as many pedophiles on the internet as the media makes it out to be. The biggest danger is getting accounts hijacked and and computer scams, which most are obvious and easy to avoid and I feel that if you're dumb enough to fall for some of them then you deserve to have all the problems it comes with. No, I don't have any sort of great emotional connection with the Internet, and I could live without it with some getting-used-to. But it's and important part of daily life, and a great way to learn and buy all sorts of things I wouldn't otherwise be able to or even know about.