Five years ago this month I made a call to Time Warner Cable to terminate my television service. This was partially a financial consideration but also a desire to repurpose untold hours of my life. Little did I realize that I would end up reinvesting many of those hours on the World Wide Web.
My relationship with the media today is enacted almost exclusively on-line. My magazine and newspaper subscriptions have long since lapsed. The only time I buy a hard copy now is when I will not have access to my computer, perhaps a day at the beach or a vacation, and as comforting as it is to curl up with a good book or newspaper I’ve definitely become addicted to the immediacy of the web.
Without TV the NY Times website becomes my first source of news each day. Next I generally hit Weather.com so I’ll know how to properly dress. I also regularly view the LA Times and the San Francisco Chronicle owing to personal connections to those cities and being a rabid tennis fan I must read Tennis.com and ATPWorldTour.com daily.
I find that my web habits thus far have proven rather passive. While I appreciate user-generated content I find most of my time is simply spent reading. I’ve been on Facebook for over a year but have never posted a status and only occasionally do I comment on a conversational thread. At this juncture I’m hesitant to put something out into the ether that I might later regret.
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