Posts Tagged ‘Online Storage’

New York City is a place to be enraged, especially because of the shoe-box shared space situation. Most of us do not cook or bake so we find use for the utilities given to us—storage. Polos go on the top rack of the oven, while ties and accessories go on the bottom rack of the oven. Cupboards are used for shoes and drawers are for socks and underwear. We create space because we want more things, we need more things.

No wonder people gave birth to the internet. Virtual space for realistic things. Imagine if the internet were as tangible as our clothes and shoes. Imagine that all the information available online can be seen and be felt. At this day and age, we need as much space as we can possibly have and all corners must be exhausted by information garnered in the online world. Offline space is expensive, but online space is priceless and here’s how the internet and social media is changing their services to meet our demanding needs for it.

“You Don’t Give Me Enough Space!!!”

I’m pretty sure you all have heard this before. Yes, it’s that line we all use, true and untrue, to get rid of someone for a short-while, or possibly, for good. Apparently, this speech is also used against the innocent internet services, especially on free e-mail providers. When one provider offers more space with more benefits, we tend to dispatch the not-so-mighty one who had served us good and say hello to the more polished and more fitting e-mail provider (with the benefit of giving us all the space we want and all the satisfaction we need). The truth is, even the claimed-to-be the most spacious e-mail provider is not as spacious as they say. Recently, Mike Monteiro has reached the bottom of the Gmail cave and the once thought impossible is now way too visibly possible.

So, what are the options now that free services have limits? Here in New York City, some of us, I know I do, rents storages that come with a price. In terms of the online world, extra space and features are available if one’s willing to pay extra bucks. Yahoo! offers Premium Service that gives extra space, live customer service care, security, and extra e-mail filters.

A Party of 5,000+ Friends

So now you got rid of the person you’re seeing because he or she doesn’t give you enough space, now what about your friends? Not as demanding Justin Bieber and not as talked about as Angelina Jolie, yet, you have thousands of friends on Facebook. Usually, one’s Facebook account will stop receiving friend requests after reaching its limit of 5,000 people. So, where does someone get more space for the ever-so-demanding friends? There are two options to choose from: creating a fan page AND creating a second profile.  At this point, I think a person who has more than 5,000 friends should hire Facebook as his personal event planner and scheduler and, more or less, his own Publicist. But, really? 5,000 friends? It is one thing to have more space in an address book, but it’s another to have more space to be real.

A Hundred-Forty Character Line. Space Much?

So you want more things to squeeze into your NY shoe-box apartment, but how? Let me introduce to you a product called, Spacebag. At the same time, you don’t want to hear your blabbering boyfriend blabber an hour long blabberlovathon, so you’d much rather have him tweet his sorrows. But how much information can one squeeze in a tweet? It seems that this 140 character tweet is enough to supply information by cutting down words, proper grammar, spelling, and URL. In fact, one can embed picture links on a tweet. And since humans are so obsessed with having more space possible, there is a URL shortener called “bit.” This service is a better bullet eater than PacMan. But let me warn you, when you drink and eat, there is no app that bites one’s stomach in order to create space for more incoming satisfaction.

Content now that you have more closet space and more tweet space? With the obsession of the social media generation to find space offline and online, has this era gone out of control? In the search of finding and creating room for information, with countless hours sitting and Google-ing through infinity, have we given up space to be humans? It seems that if there were a machine that would be able to transform us into virtual beings, we can probably fit pocket-sized lovers and take them out whenever we want them.

So go outside and play. I’m sure the internet can’t fit fresh air onto your computer. You’ve reached the end of internet anyway.