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How the Internet has enhanced our lives

01/18/2012 By Leave a Comment

In the olden days, every home had a set of encyclopedias, atlases and dictionaries. Automobile glove compartments held folded maps. Televisions were the screens that families gathered in front of. Books came from the library or bookstore. Photos were displayed on tabletops and albums. Music was released on vinyl or cassette tapes. Calendars were displayed on the wall and small versions carried in purses or pockets. Bills were paid by checks sent in the mail.

The advent of the Internet age has completely revolutionized our lives, not just how we live, but also how we view it. We share wedding and vacation photos. We receive death notices and see pictures of babies who are minutes old. We “google” what we need to research and use GPS devices to get where we need to go. We listen to music from our computers or mp3 players, using technology the previous generation never thought they would live to see.

“The generation growing up now will be the first one for whom the internet has always been around. For them there will have always been a virtual world of data that follows and documents everyone and everything they know about. Every person they know has an online profile, every object they own or place they visit has a wikipedia article.”

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About Eileen Rivera

Eileen was born in The Bronx, to Puerto Rican parents. She grew up thinking the whole world was Latino. Moving to Rockland County in upstate New York taught her it wasn’t. One more move in 1976, brought her to Hudson County, New Jersey where she currently resides. She attended Rutgers-Newark where she majored in Social Work with a minor in Puerto Rican studies. Eileen credits her history professor, Dr. Olga Wagenheim, for the spark and impetus to search out her roots in a pre-computer era. The daughter of a minister, she credits her father for the activism, volunteerism and search for justice that have characterized her adult years.

The mother of two adult daughters, Eileen has worked in the Juvenile Justice system for twenty-eight years. She acts as a liaison between the Juvenile Detention Center and the Juvenile Court.

Writing was something she shared with family. Stories and songs for her children and Christmas tales for the extended family. She now shares her writing with a larger family, the Being Latino family.

Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this article are solely those of the author and should not be understood to be shared by Being Latino, Inc.

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