As a child my first favorite media were books. After I had learned how to read I became a bookworm and read all the books for children and teenagern in our library. Our library was not very big, it was only one of the classrooms at school that had been turned into a library. I even read some of my favorite books twice. On the little island where I grew up, there was no particular CD-shop. In one shop which mainly sold vacuum cleaners and coffeemachines where as well a few CDs, but they rarely had anything for teenagers, so I spent most of my pocket money on books. Back then I didn´t have the possibility to buy a CD via internet or to download music, so I had only three CDs of Bravo Hits and some Oldies until I was 16 or 17. If I wanted to listen to something “new” I turned on the radio. My sisters and I made a lot of tapes with music we recorded from the radio. We also played first cocollmputer games as a teenager I liked to play “slot” on my mothers computer sometimes, it´s a game where you have to collect waste that can be recycled and shoot waste that can´t be recycled.
In 1999 things changed for the better: I got my own computer and it had internet access! A new world was out there and music was as free as air. I got napster (a program to share music with other users) and often turned the computer on to download some music while I was at school. The connection was very slow back then so it often took 45 minutes to download three songs- and a lot longer for a whole album. Still this was great, I collected quite a lot of music on my computer, however I rarely burned anything on CDs. I also liked chatting at first, but soon I discovered that these conversations are quite superficial most of the time and I lost interest.
My TV had only 4 channels and everything was in black and white so I used it as a table most of the time. This wasn´t too bad, since I was mainly interested in music anyway and went to the cinema with friends whenever we had the money. Two years later the catastrophe happened: My computer broke down and all my music was lost. I felt like my house had burned down! It was unbelievable to me that everything was gone from one day to the next.
I started collecting records and buying my CDs in stores instead. Then napster became forebidden anyway. Since I live together with Tom I watch TV too, but we don´t really like most of the stuff on TV, so we borrow movies in the internet at lovefilm.com and send them back after seeing them. I also think that TV is too time consuming since there is sooooo…much advertising and I prefer to decide when a movie starts and take a break when I need it instead of being ruled by the TV program. About seven years ago I also liked to play final fantasy a computer game for the playstation. I guess I´m too old for that now 
I still use the internet nearly every day, but mainly to write emails or skype with friends who live abroad. I have a friend who has moved to Rio, another friend lives in the USA and most of my friends from school have moved to bigger cities in Germany too by now. The internet is great to stay in touch with all of them.
I sometimes check my page at studivz too, still I prefer email or skype for everything that is more private.
