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It makes me wonder why would someone not be on the web? Like, checking emails is the only thing they do when the internet connection is on? How can you resist the temptation of being active on facebook, twitter, LinkedIn to start with? It’s like rejecting email access and saying I can get mails via Indian Post, why do I need letters to be read on email? Sounds insane right? Yes, then why is it that few folks refuse to accept the fact that world is moving on and they need to move along with others, or get left behind. Even when we are lagging almost 10 years behind the developed nations out there, few of us still behave differently 🙁
Take the case of online bill payments, money transfers and Tax filing. Am sure you would know of many educated human beings, having a high paying job, laptop, car, internet connection at home etc but still not too comfortable doing online banking. Now how do you justify that? How long do you think these folks can continue like this? Internet is the biggest advantage ours and the next generation would have got/ will get and we are not using it effectively? It’s a crime I guess!!
Why would you like to pay your credit card bill either by going to the bank standing in q or going to the nearest box to drop a cheque. How do you pay your electricity and water bills? getting the drift?
Not being on social networking sites, another example – Ask the same set of people and they will tell you, they are not teenagers and they have better things to do in life than waste time on these social networking sites. I have a question for them – Why do you feel it’s only junky dory out there? You get to meet your old pals whom you would have forgotten (I have met so many of my school friends whom I would never met otherwise, thanks to Orkut and Facebook) + You make new friends, call it ‘better networking’ if it makes you feel better and mature! + you keep yourself abreast with what’s happening in the world outside, what exactly are the people whom you look upto doing these days, isn’t it? In fact these days, job seekers have started referring to their LinkedIn profiles, when asked about their resumes.
Times are changing, are you?