Like you too, tamaratiu, I probably have traded the television for the internet. I have not really thought about it that much hearing you talk about internet news made me realize that is what I have done. After all, doesn't the internet come over a television, actually a computer monitor. If I could compare the 2, I like the internet better than the television, because with the television we are somewhat puppets, or I have heard it described that way. We sit there almost in a hypnotic state watching what ever comes over the television set. Sure we have programing from which we can decide what to watch, but we, in our country anyway, watch lots of commercials to pay for the television programs. Of course there are other costs as well. I like the internet because it is interactive. I am not only reading, but I am writing. Then there are more choices with the internet. The choices are almost limitless. You can look up about any kind of information you want. If I am trying to find a Bible Scripture, I can just put in a few lines of a verse, do a search, and then I can find where the passage is found. You have a better chance of doing what you are interested in on the internet. I could never do this with a television set. I do read some news on the interent, but we don't watch very much of anything on the interent because with our internet provider we are limited on our bandwidth, and it doesn't take much to exceed it, and they they limit our internet speed to where we can't do much. For people who continually exceed they threaten to shut them down competely. Our kids who live here close by have the same situation with a different provider, but our kids who live near Spokane have a service, I think over a cable, in which they can use as much internet bandwidth as they wish. We now use it for e-mails, facebook, news, searching whatever topic we wish, and probably other uses that I am not thinking about now.
