Dot Com Reality Check

Before I go rambling on about google video craze, there are 3 posts here which I highly recommend you to read as well.

Environment for mobile phone and internet users/

Modern History Of Childhood Social Environment./

Google Trends and Google Mail Cool Tools

I spoke about the prepared environment and blog address. The posts also refer to the evolution of the internet as the new history of childhood prepared environment. It is easy to do that, create history I mean. Television commercials, international news network and even regular primetime talk shows, nowadays, WILL invite viewers to their website for more details or information. “Just log on to our website, www dot blahblah dot com”.

Children know this by heart and I mean it not by sight, by heart! There is a contrast between an email address and a dot.com site. Email: yourusername@gmail.com; Wesbite: www.yourdomainname.com The contrast is of course www and @.

Granted there are other web addresses that do not end with .com, like .ca, .net, .org. Kids as young as 5 are more than capable of intelligibly knowing this difference. One is email and another website. I am saying this not as a mere passing comment, but stating a fact. My daughter knows the difference and can even log on to a website or search for sites she wants without supervision since she was 4! I know a blogger on Blogcatalog who is from Australia who is the same. His name is Andrew Knight. I do chase down success stories of talented people who have worked so hard since their childhood. One other person on this site is Jesse Cook. Get his album The Frontiers.

Kids at school are given computer games in the canteen for web surfing experience. Libraries have multi-media counters for visitors to browse the internet. Even without a computer at home, grandparents watch the movies at home and can read web addresses on the cover. Dot com is everywhere. You cannot miss it any more than you can miss the light switches in your house. You know the switches are there, and if you are so willing, you just need to come right up and turn it on.

Can You Handle Google Video Craze?

Video Playback

Your videos can be viewed full screen or window fit. Google do not place their logo ON your video. The logo is placed on the bottom right hand corner of the screen together with the rest of the user buttons. Nifty!!

I thought it was over after I discovered video chat on gmail and google flue trends. What is next Google?

It is stunning to see what goes on in the everyday lives are translated into the imaginations of children, to become their dramatic role plays. There is an element of truth behind this conscious period of growth and development; that what children see, they absorb images and their versions of how their social environment evolves are imitated in an impeccable unsullied truth of the matter.

Gone are the days when we will stand at our doorstep waiting for the postman to arrive with a letter from a distant relative. We now literally receive news from them on the mobile phone. The last time I received a letter was from my mother-in-law who took time to write to us when we were living as expatriates 10 hours flight away from her. Recently she wrote us an email!

The social network of today, now use the internet to create communities of bloggers, dancers, travellers, chefs and college students. We have stopped asking people what their home address is; we now ask what your email address is. Soon everyone will be asking, “What is your address or website?” Will that happen. I think it will.

Already, my 7 year old daughter is more interested in using the computer than using her pencil to write. It is a matter of years, or maybe months that she’ll start blogging. Google earth, blogging, yahoo, search, and www.childhoodspeech.com are already in her head even without any formal thought to teach her these names.

I should diaries this today so she will remember that on this day, she will see that her social environment is about to change. There is good that comes off this I suppose; she will create a new world of friends who live far away and read about them through the emails and blogs. She doesn’t have to wait for the next available school holiday to get connected with new friends.