eBay, PayPal, Google: The joys of the Internet

Have just spent the last hour setting up a new PayPal account to pay for a book I won on eBay. My old PayPal account had my maiden name attached to it and I couldn’t for the life of me find a way to change my name on the account. Once I had a new account it took a good 20 minutes to find out how to unlink my old account and link my new PayPal account to my eBay account – sheesh! As I used first eBay’s help pages, then PayPal’s, and finally resorted to Google, I thought about how much the Internet has become part of so many people’s lives. Pre-Internet, there was no

  • eBay
  • PayPal
  • Google
  • email
  • Flickr
  • file-swapping – music, games, tv…
  • BLOGGING πŸ™‚

Without eBay I would not have my pen collection πŸ™‚

Without PayPal my credit card bill would be far smaller.

Without Google I would have to do a lot more detective work when looking for information.

Without email M and I might never have become a couple! (Really! A story for another time perhaps.)

Without Flickr no one would know that Baubles the Cat is white, fluffy and overweight, that I have way too many books and way too many fountain pens.

Without blogging, well, you would not be reading this!

Oh, and I forgot file-swapping. Without file-swapping, M and I would not have been watching up to five episodes of Lost every night this week! (I better stop now and not incriminate myself any further πŸ˜‰ )

I sometimes wonder how much time we waste doing things on the Internet. Like when I get sent yet another email with some cutesy cartoon or pet picture or joke. And the amount of energy we all spend on our blogs.

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3 Comments

mooiness 30 June 2005

Yes – do ppl even go to libraries anymore? πŸ™‚

About you and your hubby meeting through e-mail. Back when IRC was the rage, I’ve known a few couples that met via that too.

ANd speaking of “Lost”, I’m getting kinda annoyed – every week it ends with another riddle. WTF?!

CW 1 July 2005

Mooiness, of course people still go to libraries! (else i wouldn’t have a job! πŸ˜› )

Yeh well when you download the episodes and ctach watch them one after another it’s good – reduced time between cliffhangers πŸ™‚

CW 2 July 2005

I’m sure it’s pathetic to comment about my own posts, and even more pathetic to make a comment at the wrong post, but because it really bugged me to have it at the wrong place, I’m moving it here:

“How could I forget chat?? IRC! Instant Messaging! I guess it’s because I don’t chat much nowadays – I used to, but seem to have given up on the practice for some time now…”

BAH! πŸ™‚