Monday, April 26, 2010

Assignment for Communications

I have to post this blog for my communications assignment:
This is all the ways I use the internet:
1. finding information
2. I am a hypochondriac, so looking up symptoms for something
3. programming my DVR from another location
4. Watching TV (hulu.com)
5. college classes
6. Porn? j/k maybe.
7. buying stuff
8. I recently educated myself on keeping chickens in my backyard, my next project
9. Looking up caloric values
10. Looking up exercises for weight lifting
11. Checking out craigslist for free building materials for my chick coops
12. recipes
13. converting recipes
14. looking up the dosage of medications for children
15. reading the news
16. buying music
17. reading books
18. socializing with my friends
19. coordinating with my church
20. planning chores for my family
21. banking
22. budgeting
23. planning for our future
24. coupons
25. reserving tickets for opening night at the movies
26. facebook, myspace, twitter
27. to complain about bad service
28. to look up professors on ratemyprofessor.com
29. to reserve classes
30. to shop for cars
31. to shop for a house
32. to get ratings on consumer products
33. navigating to places
34. email
35. calendar / appointments
36. dictionary/thesaurus/encyclopedia
37. blogtalkradio.com
38. political movements
39. netflix
40. party planning
41. I recently found a site associated with betterhomesandgardens.com where you can put in the dimensions of a room including windows and doors and then rearrange your furniture in the room. Saves my husband a lot of backbreaking work.
42. video games
43. inviting people to parties
44. Hosting virtual tupperware parties
45. Running my business
46. Keeping in touch with my customers
47. Sending cards to people (sendoutcards.com)
48. Address book
49. reading the first 20 pages of a book to decide if I want to buy it (amazon.com)
50. tracking packages (ups or fedex)
51. job hunting
52. looking for a new pet
53. looking at movie reviews
54. sharing pictures with family members
55. staying in touch with my daughters teacher at school through the school website
56. keeping up with the weather
57. Grocery shopping
58. figuring out how to do just about anything (I recently watched video on youtube to tell me how to seperate a ball joint on a Ford car.)
59. blogging
60. Making money

This list could go on forever. The internet is literally part of my brains functionality. I was without internet for a week once when the service was down, and I was so lost. I literally could not function in my day to day capacity without it.