Karen+&+Kelly

Anyone who spends a lot of their free time online isn´t necessarily a nerd! Using internet may be hooking and yes, there is information that isn´t correct, but still it´s very useful and entertaining. Tough chatting with friends online is nice, everyone knows that it just isn´t as great as seeing the person in real life.
 * Virtually yours**

I have lived all my life almost outside the civilization, 20 kilometers from where my closest friends live, and still for me the point of social networking is mostly arranging meetings and telling some everyday gossip. Now I´m living in a situation where I´ve recently made a lot of new friends and there is no easier way to build the friendship than general chatting about homework and things like that. Talking online also cuts the amount of tension when you next time try some small talk with this person!

Some people don´t have a real life, if named so, but it is not a problem made by internet. There has always been dropouts and always will be. The society isn´t perfect and it will never be but it doesn´t have much to do with internet. Internet is something that you can forget by doing sports and studying, real problems are much more complicated! I´d hope that people would stop complaining about the dangers of internet and just keep their opinions themselves. Everyone doesn´t have the chance or even want to be really outgoing.

Written by Kelly : ))

I do not agree with the quotation that if someone spends a lot of their free time online, they don’t have a “real life”. That can be true in some cases, but not nearly in all of them. Also, even if it was true, it can be due to own choice and that person can think of it as a better option than having a real life. If that is the case, I don’t think it’s necessarily negative to not have a real life like most people see it. Having a life and friends online can be crucially important for someone who doesn’t like socializing or who usually gets left out when their peers make plans for free time; because it allows these persons have some kind of contact with other people, on their own terms. It can also be easier to find people who share your interests online than in real life, and that helps with making friends. Therefore I think that even if spending a lot of one’s free time online and having friends there isn’t exactly what people traditionally define as “life”, it isn’t necessarily any worse than going out for dinner or inviting people over. It is important to keep in contact with the real world around you, but in my opinion it is possible to combine these two and spend a lot of time online if that suits you the best.
 * Virtually Yours**

Written by Karen