When I think about my typical day, it's amazing to find out how much I spend my time using my computer. Like Ullman, I, too, use email very often. I don't use it as much as she does, but I definitely spend a large portion of my day online, exchanging emails or chatting with my friends. This has become a daily routine for me. Communicating through the Internet has both its advantages and disadvantages, but overall, I feel that it is an essential form of communication. Sending emails or chatting online is a fast and convenient way to keep in touch with friends whenever and wherever they are. Also, it keeps me from feeling lonely when I am alone in my room.
However, I do not think I would fall in love with someone by email as Ullman does with Karl. Even though communicating online can be convenient and fun, I still think that without actually meeting him in person and having conversations face to face, I would never truly know about someone much less fall in love with him. What's more, I feel that meeting someone through the Internet can be dangerous because one can disguise himself in any way he likes. To get to know someone and to build friendly relationship with him, our traditional way of meeting in person is much better than having an anonimous chat on the Internet.
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I agree how you say that emails and chatting online is a way that helps one communicate with others. To some capacity, as a communication method, the speed and efficiency of the internet makes it very easy to keep in touch with others. Even if one was alone in their room, like your example, by being connected to the internet with other via email or online chatting, one still feels connected through others, because of the inherent sense of communication.
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