I’m always interested in reading, writing, and talking about the effect that the online world has on the “rest” of our lives, though it is becoming increasing difficult to draw a nice, neat line of separation between the two.

Last month, in one of my first posts, I outlined the ways in which my own uses and knowledge of new media had grown in just the past year.

Yesterday, on his MediaShift blog, Mark Glaser summarized the responses from readers to the question about how the Internet had changed their lives.

Here’s one comment that I particularly like, from Charles Meshel:

I am past the eighty mark in life. I have been on the computer for the past 3 years and it has changed my life considerably. I listen to music far more than I had before,I view the news, local as well as national and international. I have contact with people throughout the country by e mail and by broadband,which I never did before. It is something that from my viewpoint is stimulating, and I sense that it has helped to keep my mind more alert. I am able to research so many things including medical information that would take days to do otherwise, if at all. I heartily recommend use of the computer for all ages.

Amen.

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