There’s a significant change in the way that we use the internet. At one time, all I wanted the internet for was to check and send email or chat using the Yahoo messenger service. It was just the bare bones of the internet that I was using then, but now I can’t seem to function properly without an internet connection. Whether it is directions or a telephone number that I am looking for, it’s always to the internet that I head to.

The telephone directory has become utterly useless and redundant for the past few years, and I really can’t remember the last time I actually used it. I find these changes rather interesting to keep track of since these are all things that we had perfectly good systems of doing earlier on, but with the advent of the internet and especially with the ease of getting broadband connections, the whole world has changed.

I started using a cell phone relatively late, only in 2004, and that too very reluctantly, since I didn’t want to be tied down to it all the time. But now, if I happen to leave it behind at home, I’m in a tizzy at how I’m going to survive without it. We have got so dependent on cell phone and their inbuilt address books, that we have forgotten all our important telephone numbers.

When we were traveling back from the wedding in a convoy of 6-7 cars, my phone battery was dying out and once it did we would have no way to getting in touch with anyone even though we had other cell phones in the car, but because all the telephone numbers were saved on that cell phone. It was really frustrating to realize just how dependent we have become on cell phones, the internet, computers and anything else that seems to make are lives simpler.

I now make sure I enter all the important numbers manually, just so I start to remember them instead of only relying on the address book. Let’s see how good I get at it! Do we