4 Ways coronavirus is teaching us how to live online
The way that technology has advanced has already introduced us to many different ways of using the online world. However, the coronavirus has pushed us onto living online whether we wanted to or not. From online shopping and prescriptions through to working online and communicating with loved ones. There have been many ways that we have had to adapt to the online world a lot faster.
4 Ways the coronavirus has taught us about life online
Let’s have a look at 4 ways the coronavirus is teaching us how to live online below:
1. Online shopping
Although online shopping has been around for a long time because so many shops needed to close consumers were pushed to using online for any purchases they needed or wanted to make. And even though online shopping has always been popular, even the largest of organisations have struggled to meet demands alongside the social distancing rules within warehouses, with many having to temporarily close their online sites too. From online grocery shopping or ordering Eye Contacts through to clothes shopping and house DIY supplies, everything made the move from the stores
2. Home schooling
Many students have had to take their studies from the traditional classroom and start to learn at home. Without the internet, this would have been extremely different. Daily there is further education students, school students, college students, and others logging in to complete their work online instead of sitting within a classroom. Homeschooling is again, not a new thing it has been an option that many parents have chosen for the children, so will this encourage more to take the leap and continue to teach at home with the use of online?
3. Keeping in touch
The traditional way to keep in touch back in the day was to write a letter, speak on the telephone or visit someone in person. Nowadays people were already using online as a way to keep in touch with loved ones as well visiting regularly, however, coronavirus has forced us to spend a large chunk of time away from those who we care about the most. We have now moved to talk on tools like zoom, Messenger Facetime, and video calls. Or catching up and sharing on social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Tiktok.
4. Working from home
Although working from home was becoming more popular, a large chunk of working people is now working from home unexpectedly. The coronavirus has made it so that it is much safer and advised to work from home wherever possible. Whether you wanted to try working remotely or not this has given you the opportunity to test it out. Just bear in mind that this experience may be more fast-paced and less organised than it would be if it was preplanned. Maybe once people start to move back to their work they might consider remote working as a more viable option.
These four ways that coronavirus is teaching us to live online could change the way we live in the future as well as temporarily. What do you think? Will you continue any of these once coronavirus has passed?
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