interweb
The interweb is my playground. I have multiple accounts. They serve little to no purpose. I’m exposed to more media and advertising in a typical day than my father was before he was my age. I get headaches.
In regards to email, I currently have three accounts with Google, one with Hotmail, and one with Yahoo. I have one for both Creatis and [my current employer]. I have one through school. I used to have another Hotmail account and another Google account. I used to have one from the Daily.
I have two AIM names, two MSN names, two accounts with Google chat, and if I were to reinstall Yahoo messenger I’d have a name there. I used to have four other AIM names that I used somewhat regularly and another MSN name. I’ve had a cell phone since I was sixteen.
I have an account with Facebook and one with Myspace. I keep somewhat regular with four blogs and have a fifth I’ve neglected. I have a Flickr account and a Picasa account. I have a couple spreadsheets on Google.
Without omitting the overlapping profiles, names and numbers, I have: a hundred cell numbers, a hundred-thirty spacebook friends, a hundred email addresses, and two hundred “buddies”. I can count the number of people I consistently contact via cell or other interweb connection on less than my fingers. If you add the people I contact more than once a month it jumps to toes.
I watch television constantly and have roughly seventy channels to choose from. It’s on almost the entire time from my arrival home to when I cash out. I put mental effort into seeing four shows in the course of a week: CSI, South Park, Daily Show/Colbert Report, and recently, House.
The headaches flare quickly, like a vice between my eyes being tightened. They’ve been known to last a few days at a time. I get headaches from lack of sleep and can’t sleep because of headaches. Their frequency has slowly increased since freshman year of high school. I created my first email and AIM accounts that same year.