“Do you use the internet?”
If this question is posed to professionals, probably 10 out of 10 people will tell you they do.
“How often do you use?”
Perhaps 8 out of 10 will tell you …”almost everyday”.
“Why do you go into internet?”
Ahhh…this is where the answer varies.
The most common one would be, “To check my mails.”
The second, “To google search something.”
The third reason probably, “To read news.”
Of course, there is no internet organization that tells us, “Hey users, you want to apply for citizenship with the Internet, you got to fulfill these criteria!”
But, let’s say there is a list of activities you must have done in the internet for you to get the citizenship, would you qualify?
Check yourself with these 10 activities. Have you or have you not?
1. Possess a web mail account – and using emails to do your correspondence.
2. Use instant messaging such as Yahoo Chat or MSN Messenger to get into real time virtual conversations.
3. Make use of E-commerce to make online purchases and not afraid of leaving down your credit card number.
4. File sharing – a simple example is using YouTube to upload your video and share with the world.
5. Member of social networking sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Friendster, MySpace, Twitter and etc. to get connected with friends and associates.
6. Own a blog or at least visit a number of regular blogs that you read and participate actively by making comments.
7. Registered and belong to some live communities or user groups.
8. Participate in online games.
9. Check out forums or sites that serve to hold discussions on specified topics.
10. If you are in employment, you should at least have an account with an online job portal. If you are a business owner, a website - if not, you should at least dabble with online advertising.
I still have to do a few things to qualify for the 'internet citizenship" :)
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