Internet and other ramblings..
Guess that I should make the most of the PC bangs while I am still in Korea. It is ridiculously cheap here- around 50p an hour. There was an item on the Internet in South Korea on BBC world the other day. It said that over 50% of the South Korean population has access to the internet making it one of the most computer literate countries about. But it does have its downside. There are internet addiction support groups out there for those that can't tear themselves away from Starcraft or Crazy Arcade in their free time. There are also many professional game players.
Recently a man collapsed and died after playing computer games nearly non-stop for 86 hours in Gwangju (a city near Mokpo). Gaming addiction also has a knock-on effect on real life with more than one expert claiming that the digital violence is increasingly finding its way into every day life. All I know is that the PC bang that I am in is alive with the sound of people shooting the crap out of each other with laser guns and the only sound of typing is coming from my keyboard.
I guess that I am an internet addict in a different way. I check my hotmail account five days out of seven and sometimes several times a day. I am the kind of girl that likes the sound of her own typing almost as much as she enjoys the sound of her own voice. I am a communications addict really and this is much cheaper than the telephone with a much wider audience. After all the years of laughing at yuppies with mobile phones I have now owned four in the last three years (one got stolen, I gave one away because it was so ugly, one if sitting in my mother's kitchen drawer at home and the last one is the cute little white one in my pocket right now). And I still run home to check the answer machine and I don't even have one anymore! And I run to work in the mornings to see if I have any real mail. I am sure that I couldn't have done this travelling lark in the dark ages of five years ago when internet connection was still a rare thing in a city and the cafes where invariably still filled with anoraks.
The internet has made it much easier to stay in touch with passing acquaintances and friends and family alike. Which is great and I love the fact that I have friends in so many different countries.
But enough of this waffling, a little Starcraft won't hurt surely.............
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Recently a man collapsed and died after playing computer games nearly non-stop for 86 hours in Gwangju (a city near Mokpo). Gaming addiction also has a knock-on effect on real life with more than one expert claiming that the digital violence is increasingly finding its way into every day life. All I know is that the PC bang that I am in is alive with the sound of people shooting the crap out of each other with laser guns and the only sound of typing is coming from my keyboard.
I guess that I am an internet addict in a different way. I check my hotmail account five days out of seven and sometimes several times a day. I am the kind of girl that likes the sound of her own typing almost as much as she enjoys the sound of her own voice. I am a communications addict really and this is much cheaper than the telephone with a much wider audience. After all the years of laughing at yuppies with mobile phones I have now owned four in the last three years (one got stolen, I gave one away because it was so ugly, one if sitting in my mother's kitchen drawer at home and the last one is the cute little white one in my pocket right now). And I still run home to check the answer machine and I don't even have one anymore! And I run to work in the mornings to see if I have any real mail. I am sure that I couldn't have done this travelling lark in the dark ages of five years ago when internet connection was still a rare thing in a city and the cafes where invariably still filled with anoraks.
The internet has made it much easier to stay in touch with passing acquaintances and friends and family alike. Which is great and I love the fact that I have friends in so many different countries.
But enough of this waffling, a little Starcraft won't hurt surely.............
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posted by Helen @ 5:28 PM
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