Are we using the Internet or is the Internet using us?

How does the Internet affect to our belief?

To start our discussion, let me tell you the story about how I know Donald Trump!

It was the evening of a gloomy day of January. I was tired and sleepy after a long day of studying. As usual, I stopped doing homework and picked up my phone. Scrolling down the site of so-called "Facebook", I felt so disappointed because I didn't know how many time I had been reading the same post over and over again in a day. There was nothing else to read since they were all dissected hundred of times up to the point which I could even prove that *the electrons and the nucleus do exist inside an atom! And so I scrolled up again with a hope that I could find something new and enjoyable. Suddenly, NowThis posted a clip about the US election or whatever it was on Facebook (I don't really care much about it). My curiosity rose up to the top of my head, so I opened it up as quick as I could. Pop to the screen was a clip about a guy named Donald Trump. The clip showed how stupid he was, or I can say, how people hated him. I didn't care anything about politics nor a guy named Donald Trump, but the only one thing remained in my head that day was "I don't like him, so I don't support him!"

Seriously!!!!! Since when I have started caring about politics meanwhile, I have no interest in it. I know nothing about him nor the election coming up in the US. But if I ever had a chance to vote for the election, I wouldn't vote for Donald Trump. nEVER, EVER, EVER! (and I still don't know anything about him)

Let's not talk about Donald Trump anymore!

So what tells me is that the Internet affects dramatically and significantly on how I perceive the world and what I should believe. I don't understand how my brain works, but that is how it works. CRAZY HUH?!!!

Another example which I attached to my Blendspace is the "Muslim Terrorist Prank". (I'm not racist)

Some crazy guys made this prank and scared everyone else. It's not really funny if you were in that situation (Though I found it funny because of the music!). As long as more and more people watch the video, there will be an awareness arisen from the video that Muslims are terrorists. And I'm not kidding!!!!!  

If we are not aware of what we are looking for or what we are facing at, the objective information we observe will influence our way of belief.
This diagram shows the flow of information through the Internet:

Source (objective) => Internet => Us (ignorant)

Which means people are using the Internet to influence someone else for the purpose of concealment.

In IB, we are taught to use multiple sources when we are doing research. However, before I even study in Canada, Wikipedia used to be the first choice of sources of information that I used to do any investigation.

Overall, we tend to accept one point of view from one specific group of people as the reality of the matter when we know nothing about the issue.

*Besides, from this blog, the answer to the question "Are we using the Internet or is the Internet using us?" is that the matter starts from "We are using the Internet" and ends with "the Internet is using us". So there is no one choice out of two in this question. It is a cause-effect situation.