I <3 the Internet

I don’t know what it is about my computer, but I am straight up addicted to it. Regardless of the fact that I am on it all day, the first thing that I do when I get home from work is turn it back on.

I’m sure it’s the same with a lot of people who work at Google, which makes a lot of sense. I can’t see being happy at a company like Google if I hated computers and/or the Internet. On top of that, my colleagues and I take our jobs and our relationships with advertisers very seriously – so it’s a job that goes beyond the standard ‘9 to 5’ hours.

Of course, my computer addiction is not completely work-related. I can’t say that I don’t love chatting and emailing with friends, and I really can’t say that I never drool over/shop online for my other major addiction – shoes. Online shoe shopping may very well be the death of me (and my paycheck). Even when I have nothing to shop for, or I am chatted out for the day, I can always occupy myself online by checking the weather or reading up on the newest celebrity gossip.

I knew that I had an attachment to my laptop, but I realized the severity of the issue on Monday, when I was in the middle of my day off, and my internet died. I panicked. I tried everything to reconnect, with no luck. I finally tried closing the laptop and taking a break from the restarts and internet setup troubleshooting – but I just kept staring at it. And opening it back up every 10 minutes to see if anything had changed. It hadn’t.

Not only did I realize the severity of the addiction, but I also grew to appreciate our technical team at Google even more than I already do. Internet goes down? Computer problems? They’re on it. I am relatively computer savvy, however for some things, like the ambiguous death of an internet connection, you may as well give the computer to my cat Fiona and ask her to handle it.