The Wealth of Information on the Web
It never ceases to amaze me, the ease of the access to information today . I feel like an old timer, saying %22Back in my day… as back in my day is not so far back. But it is far enough back to remember a time when you had to just answer the phone, having no idea who was calling on the other end. I remember the time when you had to buy a road map and find your own way to the restaurant or whichever destination you were headed. Now you can find directions online, and the cars manufactured today talk out loud, telling when to turn left and when to turn right. Back in my day, when it was time to look for college apartments to rent, we had to get out our red pencils, and circle ads in the paper. We had to drive to locations having no idea what the place may even look like or what condition it was going to be in. Now there are rental listings online , which not only present pictures of the properties and the surrounding area, but some now are even utilizing Youtube. This is amazing for a couple of reasons. Youtube is huge. People go on looking for one video, and before you know it your surfing the Tube…while watching one video you check out the list of similar videos, you choose one and so on and so forth. You may have started out looking for a video of your favorite band, but before you know it, a couple of hours have passed and you watching home videos of dreaming dogs and dancing cockatiel birds . It is amazing where you end up, and so for companies to post videos it provides them the means of being discovered. It is good for business. It is also great for consumers, or for prospective rental applicants. Looking for an apartment is a pain, especially when you are new to a city as are many students who travel out of town to attend university. If we had, back in my day, access to this kind of information, to be able to take a virtual walk through an apartment before we drove there to check it out, so much time would have been saved, and so much aggravation would have been avoided. Some things may have been better back in my day, but I’m kind of digging the things that are better in our day.