Is the Internet dumbing us down and making us lazier? Or is it empowering the masses by giving access to more information?

 Is the Internet dumbing us down? Or is it empowering the masses? Like any societal advancement there are pros and cons to everything. The answer is solely depended on the users. Who has time to read entire articles now a days? Instead, we only read snippets. And if we are interested in it, we will investigate more into it. With this lifestyle, people were able to save more time from reading a newspaper every morning, like old people do. However, it also can make people dumber. People might become a "headline readers" and not gain any information through a valuable source. Furthermore, it doesn't mean that Internet is making people lazier because Internet is very accessible and easy to use. Some people who grown up without Internet might say people are lazier nowadays because they are not looking up the information through books. On the other hand, nowadays people can stay at their house and go groceries shopping. It is proven that, since the Internet was invented, obesity has increased significantly by making people not to move around except their fingers and eyeballs.
In short, Internet can dumb us down and make us lazier, but without Internet, the world would have not been socially developed.