[Student Name Deleted]
PAC442B
Internet and American Life
Paper One
How the Internet Changed My Shopping Style
The Internet with its vast network of resources has the ability to affect and even
change the lives of its users. Internet has affected my life in many different ways. I am
able to keep in touch with my family and friends across four states and two different
countries through email. I have also been able to earn credit towards my Masters while in
my pajamas through online classes. But the most significant way that the Internet has
affected my life is that it has changed the way I shop. This may seems trivial when
compared to the vast array of changes and benefits that the Internet can bring to its users
but this area is where the most dramatic changes have occurred. The Internet with its vast
shopping resources changed me from someone who rarely ever shopped to an EBay
addict to an obsessive Internet bargain hunter.
The Internet hasn’t really changed what I shop for but it has changed how and
how much I ended up shopping. Before the Internet, I would hardly ever shop especially
for clothes but when I did shop, I tried to find the best bargain possible. Most of the time,
I was just too frustrated with the whole overall process to even enjoy shopping for
clothes. I was frustrated at the fact that I had to drive over forty minutes roundtrip and
then have the sales people either ignore me or stalk me because I looked like I might try
to shoplift. And of course, I was never able to find my size in shoes or jeans so most of
the time I would end up wasting more than an hour of my time. I did however enjoy
shopping for books and DVDs. I could spend hours looking through old books and not
