Cyber hobbits

It is fashionable nowadays to either be online all the time,or to disapprove it with vigour and see it as evil..Of course for those who browse aimlessly,and spend sleepless nights chatting,the term 'heavy user' is applicable,but is using the same term for people who spend over 8 hours a week justified?Just over an hour of internet usage a day cannot be so harmful,atleast on paper.Does not easy internet accessibilty show progress?When someone is busy sleeping someone else is reading up short biographies of Plato to Dave Matthews,various online communities giving them the option to talk abt their passions and hence develop more.For a music lover,befriending an international musician,or even his peer on the other end of the country is not an impossibility anymore.For a football lover following all the major and minor international leagues is a possibility if he decides to dedicate all his time to the game.Similar are the cases for literature and politics.And the most important feature of present society is communication,should it not be utilised?For those who stay up all night,most of them choose to,because they like it.Some of them have adapted to that way.Internet usage is definitely not a defence mechanism like alcohol or drugs.And is it not anyway a better option to talk to friends spread all over the globe than losing money and dignity at a discotheque?And a computer normally never has a biological bad effect unless it falls on somebody.It is natural,however, to be alarmed by an excess of internet usage without much professional aim.But an excess of vitamin rich fruits might also result in an extremely unhappy stomach.The answer is to control and utilise,neither to be entirely dependent on the internet,nor to shun it absolutely.