I write

The internet exploded in my face. Or so it felt like. I remember being 14 years old. Alone, 11 o'clock at night, up pounding my index fingers away at a keyboard. Then, my mom was the only person I knew who used one. The secretary at school, too, but that was it. Until, AOL came out and we started going online and IMing until we couldn't see the screen anymore. Printing out conversations, talking to boys, gossiping with girls. High School was just about to start and the internet revolution was under way. I had no way of knowing at that time what computers and the world wide web would bring to our lives.

Over the next 8 years the internet has taken off. Today the impact is substantial and this technological, abstract and numerical world manages the way we live. We have come to recognize the internet as an extension of ourselves. There exists no privacy because we are the internet; We grow inside a vast enterprise and network of knowledge and information.