After reading about the new Google Chrome OS (this is basically a internet-only OS... geared around using the net on so-called "netbooks."), I began to wonder while eating my quesadillas... "do we depend too much on the internet?"

How internet-centric is our lives?  For all things entertainment and now work?   Social networking and news?

I am guilty of enjoying my social networking sites (Twitter, MySpace, Facebook, digg, gdgt among others) because it keeps me in touch with people that I know or have known in the past and even people I don't know...

We find out news from Twitter, Digg, and Facebook... but hardly ever from the sources (you know, CNN, Fox News, ABC, CBS, NBC including the local affiliates).

I really embrace "new media" such as video sharing sites and podcasts (netcasts) and video podcasts ("internet tv") but these only compliment "traditional media" and don't know why there are so many "new vs traditional" media battles... these should compliment each other and also should embrace each other.

I suppose if my livelihood was based on the internet, I might have a different view.  I am thinking about re-evaluating my dependence on the internet.   My use of the internet has fallen since meeting my then girlfriend (now fiancee).   Maybe I am paranoid, but there seems to be a push for the internet to become the center of our lives and not just the tool that it actually is...

Oh, and don't get me started on Google... I will leave that to a future blog post.