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

  The Internet is dumbing us down and making us lazier, we will not be able to live without Internet anymore. Way back from now, if the Internet were not commonly used by people, the world would be more complicated than you thought: you wouldn’t have those online medias and you couldn’t get every news in time, sometimes you even need to wait maybe couple months to know that; you wouldn’t have social medias such as, facebook, intagram, snapchat,etc. You can't 'like' others'pictures or 'share', you can't receive any funny pictures from your friends 7/24; No buzzfeeds, which means you are not able to check them just for making blueberry muffins… All those things you are used to use on the internet would disappear. I believe even if those internet things I just mentioned disappeared, some people would not be comfortable anymore. In recent years, people have more and more requests with functions of the Internet, as a result, things which needed to be finished by people themselves are now able to be finished by using Internet, and people are becoming lazier and lazier. For example, people are now commonly using online shopping, they are not necessarily going to a mall or a superstore anymore, because only with one click ,they could get mostly everything they need such as daily supplies, cosmetic items, clothes, bags, shoes and so on, and they could do online shopping whenever they want, shopping is now not limited by external factors such as weather, distance anymore. People basically don’t have to go outside anymore, if they only want to go shopping. Moreover, with the rapid development of Internet industry, more services such like online banking/financial services are available. So now If I ask you, If one day the internet disappears, will our lives be the same? I believe the answer is absolutely a no.