It’s summer! Time of holidays, free time, summer breaks, less worries and unexplained happiness. We feel more relaxed and enjoy in our work-free time. At least some do.
When the time comes which kind of traveler are you?
Are you one of those people who leave everything at home and just go free as a bird?
Or you first pack “online” case?

Question is do we forget on Internet today or we still regularly, every day, check on our online friends and their news? Is our summer online activity lessen or not?

I’ll divide into two periods - before Internet and now and try to find the answer.

Before Internet and social networks, holiday meant just great time and fun. Having fun with your parents and friends.
Traveling and visiting places was cool and camera recorded the memories which we later showed to our close people. But during the holiday we used to enjoy in it and remember every detail we liked. We used to absorb every single thing and then retell. We relied on our memory.

Now we rely on technology more.
Now, we enjoy in holidays but in a different way. Sometimes - read for sure, we think more about taking a clip or photo instead of just enjoying in moment. Trips became more than free time, pleasure and relaxation, they have become personal travel guides which we share online.
I have no problems with that, I quite enjoy because you can see and inform yourself from others experience about every destination.
What worries me is whether we forgot to just relax and do one thing only - enjoy our holiday?

There are many of us addicted on online content and social media. We start and end our days with it. So, normally we bring it too on our holidays.
And instead of looking around for some place to chill out we, in panic, look and search Internet and our gadgets, chargers and batteries. More than often we miss all the good stuff while we mess with good angle and lights for the shot.
That is modern traveling. Lots of accessories and tech involved.
But is it healthy?
Is it OK to chat with our online friends while we are on the beach, or should we just forget on social media for those 10, 15 or 30 days ( if you are lucky ) ?
Will we lose all of them if we just simply disconnect ourselves and say nothing or we have to inform them about our absence. And when we go away do we have an obligation to check in?

On the other hand, should we stay blind and pretend we see nothing and hear nothing because we are on vacation while near us is happening some spectacle?
Or should we take our camera, embrace our technology age, be citizen journalist and share it on social media?

Imagine yourself as one of flight passengers who saw space shuttle launch while you were on your way to some holiday destination. Wouldn’t that be a waste of moment and resource if you looked aside and skipped sharing that info through video and photo with your online friends and wide audience? It’s just practicing some vacation citizen journalism.
That sounds as perfectly normal choice. We are not guilty for living in an age overwhelmed by technology. Why should we then leave it aside?

So many questions, every valid on its way. Who can decide which option is right?

Balance is the key. To keep balance between free time and online constant never ending life. But for doing that, to be completely honest, it takes a lot.
One has to become a wizard.
And never forget to have fun!