Ok not really. I go to school, have a job, all that beginning to live the American Dream stuff. But I also spend a ton of time on the internet.
Spending time on the internet isn't necessarily a bad thing. The internet is filled with all kinds of useful(and useless) information. As long as you're careful about where your information comes from you can learn practically anything. Even how to program a computer or the basics of chemistry.
I think the sheer amount of information available on the internet is one of the best things about this new digital age. If someone asks me something and I don't know the answer then I'll suggest they google it. The twilight zone moment of that phrase for me though is when my mom tells me to google something.
Although we can get so much information off the internet. I think a lot of times the usefulness of the internet is ignored in favor of using the internet for more useless things. which, again, isn't a bad thing. But when you get onto the internet to do something, get distracted, and then look at the clock two hours later saying "Dang It!" There internet has stopped being useful and has become a time vampire.
So, I think the best thing about the internet is the sheer amount of things you can learn a lot about on it. The worst thing about this digital age, to me at least, is the vampiric quality the internet takes. It sucks my time till I have none.
I can't tell you how many times I have got on the computer to do homework and two hours later thought "wait I have something I need to be doing." It is kind of mindless and so easy to get lost in the internet. Two hours in I'm on a random site selling dreamcatchers and I have no idea how I got there. It might be helpful to give myself a time limit haha.
ReplyDeleteI would agree that the internet does suck up a lot of time. It's just so easy to flip to the next thing. I know youtube is the worst for this. You say you'll be on there for a half hour and then another video catches your interest and another until you have spent three hours watching adorable cat videos. I think a time limit is necessary when dealing with the internet or else you do waste your life away.
ReplyDeleteI literally got on my computer to do homework an hour ago and now I'm finally doing it. Such a time waster! But I justify it all the time. I get so caught up in different things on the internet and never get done what needs to be done.
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