Can ever Internet replace Books ?

I remember the days when I used to write long letters to my father in Berhampur, Orissa from my hostel in Delhi when the writing style, language and the selection words were the tools to measure one's scholastic capabilities. But I wonder in time span of few years the scenario has altogether changed and Internet, e mails have occupied the space for books, letters and telegrams. I still have those inspiring letters by my father directing and advising me in due course of time about many do's and don'ts. It was not mere letters by an eager father asking his about to mature son about the ongoing situation in his career or the many facets of life , but it had that warmth & love mingled with the strict commands in a sarcastic way guiding me the with better ways in life. I always admired his style and selection of words which for my uncle's was a tough task to handle but i managed to get the message in them. He is very keen in handwriting as well, as in his and my school days a good handwriting was a parameter judge one's academics & the scholastic attire of a wise man.

Now when the key board has replaced the mighty pens and the web page of the pads, writing skills have changed a bit. This was my view when i was in northern India but in Chennai the views have altogether changed. People here still like to stick to books and there is a special like to read news papers across the state. With many much circulated Tamil news papers , the readers have got an easy choice of language and the rich availability too has made the reading habit a good choice. in this fast moving life Newspaper and the most wanted Novels are best choice for reading during travel time and people here just enjoy it. From Tamil news papers to Bestsellers are in good demand here. And I like my uncle who wanted to make a habit of reading a good Novel before sleeping is still a nightmare. I am yet to make my body habituals to that as i hardly get to books these days rather I choose the IDIOT BOX or the Ethernet. But still I have couple of Novels in my shelves & waiting for a day to read them in peace...

Meeting people online...

We used to sit in the evening and chatting among ourselves the common day to day issues and were having fun then.Gradually we got ourselves busy in jobs and that to private jobs. It seemed we were going on a Marathon everyday starting from Morning 7 am till 8 pm in the evening. Being Private companies Saturday too we kept on working. Gradually we missed out the personal touch among friends and those people who were sharing cups of tea in the morning were hardly seen in any week and we missed each other. Then we strongly relied on telephone lines to get connected and we found it as a convenient mode to communicate each other. We were meeting in the weekends to celebrate and spent good times together. in due curse of time we were converted to business workaholic from Close collage friends. Next friends started getting married. Then the distance between us was stretched. then we found the networking sites were in news. And as we were spending hours on the Internet we thought to make use of it. The different features like the photo sharing and video sharing facility to instant messaging & group chatting, group messaging was a point of attraction for me. Gradually the fever caught us up and we were like Internet geeks into action. In very short span of time we were having accounts in many social networking sites like Orkut,faces,Pal etc. This is our case wherein it was a need based search which got the social networking sites work for us. And tho their success we were happy for the services we got. But unlike us much younger people are using these sites for fun & masti and these sites too are providing them with good stuffs and masala to get pass their time. Today people are booking time for each other on faces or orkut or a cool chat on Internet to share and acquire knowledge,information and to have fun together from two corners of the world. The extensive usage of this Internet has made this world come to a common platform and the role of the social networking sites are very remarkable...