Internet Communities to Keep Us Sane?

It is part of our lives that we move around a lot.  Most people get to “settle” down and have a house and raise their children and have a sense of community for years, if not a lifetime.  With our lifestyles, we may move into a house and in 2-4 years find ourselves moving again. 

In the past several years, as the internet has become a place where we have more social networking, I have found that it has also become a place for me to meet and know a community of people that I never have to leave.  I am quickly finding that for me, being on the internet is replacing my phone use.  In years past, I used the phone a lot.  Now, I can just log onto my computer and communicate with people without using the phone at all.

I wonder how many of us, as people who are constantly moving our households, get sanity from the fact that the internet is the one constant that we have?  Does it give you a sense of community that you don’t have to recreate every couple of years? 

I then want us to think about this the next time we are thinking we are addicted to the internet.  Are you really addicted to the internet, or are you just using the internet more and the phone less?