SNAIL-mail to E-mail

It has been days since I started thinking what to write to my entry about Information Revolution. If not for my mom and her best friend’s story I wouldn’t have made an entry that’s personal and would have resorted in discussing what our professor had lectured.

Here it goes.

Last night, right after my mom entered our home and even before she said her usual line, “I’m home”, she immediately asked me to open her e-mail. Well, I didn’t ask her why or what’s the urgency because this had become a routine since last year. What’s the reason? Tita Noella, her best friend, texted her and said that she had already sent the pictures of her new home. FYI. My mom is a frustrated interior designer. She loves watching the Lifestyle channel. My mom helped Tita Noella in designing her home-through internet. My mom sends Tita Noella the colours that matched a specific room. Tita Noella, on her side takes pictures of the furniture that she have. All these were done through e-mail.
Some to think of it, I remember how they contact each other 5 yrs ago. My mom isn’t a techie person and she dislikes using the computer. She studied using it for the sake of her work. My mom and Tita Noella used to write each other through snail-mail. I remember the tons of albums that she has which contain not our pictures but of Tita Noella. But those were the days—my mom now opens her e-mail regularly instead of opening mail envelopes. She also has cd’s and usb’s instead of tons of albums.

Recently, my mom saw me chatting with a friend who migrated to Canada through Yahoo Messenger. She also saw my friend through the web cam and she thought that maybe she and Tita Noella can do that as well. She asked me to teach her how to use the YM, so that she can recommend it to Tita Noella and they could do it. LOL.
I thought that through the years, there has been definitely an Information Revolution—the spread of new media themselves, and this I have seen with the story of my mom. The new tools of information, specifically the e-mail/YM, help bridge people closer easier and more conveniently.

“It and the revolutions that followed would shape humankind more than any wars or any kings ever did or would.”(Irving Fang)
I SECOND THE MOTION!