The Internet and Me

Well, the first thing that I should make clear is that I am not necessarily an Internet savvy individual. I know how to search, and I am an e-mail and facebook user, but besides that, I am quite in the dark.
The major obstacle that hinders me is me. I do not always understand why you want to perform some functions via the Web, when you can do it at your kitchen table or with pen and paper.
I have been using Microsoft Office for quite some time although I updated to 2007 within the past six months and still have not quite gotten used to the new layout.

Last semester someone I was in a group with introduced me to Google Documents. I was amazed at how much it changed the process of developing a paper with four individuals. It had always been an annoyance to have to download documents, make a few changes and then have to reattach them to an e-mail to send back. Plus, when there are many revisions and more people involved, your inbox gets pretty clogged, and it can be confusing to decipher which document is the most up to date. You avoid all of these problems with Google Documents because one just saves the most recent version to the site.

I cannot say that Google Documents has completely changed the way I write personal documents, but when it comes to group projects- it is definitely the way to go!