I think my favorite bit about the internet is how choice-driven it is. You can find little niches of culture that are congenial to you for nearly any culture out there, and places that are grating are relatively easy to avoid, so you get your own hand-picked community, practically -and you can do it without leaving your own home.
It's utterly spoiled me!

That's true. And as someone who is depressed (meaning I don't go out if I can help it and tend to avoid people), it's also a window to the outside world. But of course, there's also dangers there and many people don't know how to behave out there... >___> I was "lucky" in that I got into it right before it started to become really big everywhere (before the social media too, as we know it today). Sure I made many mistakes (almost ended up as a victim to some creep as a stupid young teen for example, but thankfully I wasn't stupid enough to do the whole meet them and such) and learned things the hard way, but I basically grew up with it as it also evolved to what it is today. So I pretty much know more than the average internet user today, many who don't seem to think much, if you get what I mean (from behavior to what they put out there)... My sister is among the younger, social media, generation..... And my parents are the older generation, the type that's now trying to fit in and be like rest of them.

In other words, you're of the generation that helped shape and evolve the internet into what it is now!
Neat... I was late finding the internet and computers, so I'm not very adept at it.

My typing speed is GREAT, but that's a holdover from typewriters (and I love how keyboards never get the keys jammed together the way typewriters did if you typed too quickly)

Haha! Yes. And our (my generation) kids are probably right now the biggest social media people (or growing up to be), since that's what many of them grew up with. And our parents come behind, some willingly throw their hands in the air, while some try almost too hard to not be left behind...

I still remember when I was a kid it was mandatory to learn at school how to use the internet. Basic things. And part of it was making your own email account. I hated it with passion. Wanted nothing to do with it, lol.

Yeah, my typing speed is pretty fast also (nothing epic, but better than average), but it'd be kind of weird to not be since I write so much myself.

I feel like kofk helped me type faster xD Because I chat here a lot lol

Especially with events like this... you gotta catch up.

Myeah. That's one thing and writing stories is yet another. But I have a feeling (outside actual speed writing jobs) that chat writing rpgs is a whole another thing. Lol. At least once you have someone to write those with. Man, it would go back and forth so fast sometimes it's no wonder during those times I hardly slept since it was too addicting. Never again. I did my time (sounds like prison, lol) for so many years, think I'm pretty done with that. But still, fun to think back.

Heh, the thing that honed my speed the most was the free-to-use typewriter in the school library; I'd go there instead of to lunch and type up my essays due that day in the classes held after lunch -had to try and squeeze in about 5 pages each day during my lunch period, and the faster I did it the more likely I'd have time to eat!
It was a great motivator to learn to type quickly, and accurately too since we'd get points deducted for typos and spelling/grammar errors (which are harder to deal with on a typewriter than a computer, so mostly everyone went more slowly to do it right the first time rather than counting on being able to use a 'backspace' key -which key was the SOLE reason I didn't protest harder about switching to computers-)

It's been years since I've even touched an actual typewriter... And now in this age of high tech and all the fun, I want one. :P

Lol, they're probably floating around available random places for purchase, I bet.

Once I have some actual money and place to put it, I'll hunt one down. I've always loved history (not the nonsense they teach you at schools, but actual history, with all the fun and interesting details and also things they used to have), and being a writer, it feels almost like a crime to not own one, haha. But yeah, I really want one someday.