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“[The Internet] has made us into an area of early adapters,” says Doug Koelemay, vice president of public affairs for the Northern Virginia Technology Council. “Because we can communicate anywhere anytime, we don’t sit still.” Chatting with the neighbors
Northern Virginians are wired and it shows. Even the telephone is becoming outdated.
Mary MacPherson of the Morino Institute, a nonprofit technology group in Reston, says more work is getting done now over e-mail than by vioce mail or even in person.
“Unless it’s an emergency, I would much rather communicate by e-mail,” MacPherson says. “You can find someone a lot easier with e-mail than by phone.”
In the Electronic Age, business communications are more frequent and less formal. But the Web is changing the way friends interact as well.
Kathy Riley, human resources director for America Online, says AOL’s Instant Messenger has created a more efficient form of communication.
“My daughter will be speaking to someone on the phone and instant messenging three other people,” Riley says.
The downside, Riley says, is the loss of face-to-face interaction.
Nate Mook, an 18-year-old Reston resident, spent a year at Indiana
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