Is the
Internet dumbing us down and making us lazier? Or is it empowering the masses
by giving access to more information?
Is this our future?
Well it doesn't have to be, if we use the internet wisely.
The internet can be a source for us to be lazy at home and not accomplish
anything in our day. Us teens use the internet for things like Instagram,
Twittier and other social medias for fun, when there is a lot more to the
internet than just that. People also use internet to buy clothes, food, to pay
the bills and a lot more things. This is just making us sit on the couch
instead of getting out of our houses. The scariest thing for me is that nowadays, when we don’t know
something, or can’t solve a problem, we just look for it on google, we don’t
try to deal with the issue, we are starting not to use our heads anymore. I’m a
student so I’m experiencing this everyday: when we are not sure about an answer
of one exercise or unsure of an answer we gave, we don’t try to go over the
question, we just see if we can find the answer online. So I think that internet is making our brain less active.
However, thanks to the internet, we can integrate our studies
with videos on youtube that can make some subjects easier, or with some
scientific articles that look inside a topic deeply. This makes us more knowledgeable.
Another main function of internet is that it
connects people. You can talk or chat with your friends in every single moment
of your life, you can share thoughts, jokes and pictures with them. It also
connects people that are in opposite parts of the world, we can get information
about what is happening around the world in a few seconds. This is the way I use
internet the most. I live six thousands kilometres away from my family and my
friends but I’m in contact with them every day.
Beatrice Malacart
I completely agree with what you wrote about being able to google questions we don't know with the internet therfore making our brain less active to try to find the answer itself, but how the internet also helps us by enabling us to find out more about the topics we're interested in or don't know enough about. I too, use the internet to be able to connect with people from other parts of the world, and I find very useful. However, it also makes us more prone to using the internet to communicate with people close to us instead of actually talking to them physically.
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