It has been a while since our company monitors our usage on the internet, and which sites we went into. I tried to refrain myself from using the internet at work, but I simply cannot forfeit using the stock market brokerage through the internet which is part of my livelihood, you see! Well this is not about me, at least not just yet because I don’t get onto the stock market all day, but this colleague who looks exactly like Garfield with half closed eyes gets into the internet chatroom over 1,500 times in a week, according to our IT report. Garfield does not speak to anybody at work. What she does every day is to stock up enough snack from our free snack bar, and goes back to her internet chatroom. That’s how she spends her day.

Various warnings from her supervisor have no effect on the issue, not until when she was told that her net connection could be severed. When she heard this, she broke down and cried! It’s like our company is going to disconnect her life-support machine! It’s only the bloody internet!

But this leads me to think that nowadays why so many people addicted to the internet world. Perhaps inside this internet world, they can be a totally different person. For some, they created an entirely different image for themselves, an ideal image which in reality they can never fulfilled, e.g. pretty, witty, learned and capable, just everything missing in them. They tell lots of lies which are far from the truth, e.g. the most common lie is how capable they are at work but as a matter of fact, they usually are the kind of people other colleagues have neglected their existence. Some never show their photos (that’s me) so as to open to imagination how nice looking they are! (that’s not me, I like to describe myself as an old hag).

I mean there is no harm that every now and again, we do something to boost our ego. But the internet saga is more serious than that. Instead of helping us to accept who we really are, it provides a temporary shelter for us to escape from our shortcoming, like performing a plastic surgery inside this system, coming out with a perfect nose, and lots of fans, and then the nose sank or the breast implants burst after a while, bringing people back to reality in despair.

This may be perfectly o.k. for some. But to me, I cannot help to think that the world’s scenario has changed from bad to worse. No one would make an effort to improve themselves or communication with one other in their actual life. They simply resort to this mirror mirror on the wall, who is the smartest among all, and see themselves as the smartest through the internet illusion. How pathetic can you get!