The internet is a destructive, but stunning place if used correctly. There is no secret that most people now have very high powered computers within their hold, but many people believe that the internet is slowly taking away the significant parts of our society. Factors such as face-to-face conversations are being replaced in service of phone calls, or video texting chatting. Letters are being replaced by emails, Facebook is a favorable platform for sharing photos.
The world has never been better connected than it is today, but this has increased concerns that it is negatively affecting people. While there are tremendous benefits to the internet, like the fact that people can access any information that they want virtually immediately, But the internet is affecting us in some adverse ways that we need to settle for the sake of our young people. The internet is hurting people because people are not reading as frequently as they should be due to the distractions of the internet, society is becoming addicted to the internet, and people are losing the capacity to think because of the persuasiveness of search engines.
People today do not read real books as much as they should. People today, especially the teenager, are so used to reading brief paragraphs that anything longer than a page is too much to read and they ignore it as insignificant. Researchers researched 2,000 Canadians beyond the age of eighteen to determine the impacts of the digital era on humans. Microsoft. In each test run, across every age group, gender, and attention span, the attention span declined since 2000.
The human attention span is in middle now only eight seconds, less than that of a goldfish. Not only do many people have a lower attention span, but they are also less inclined to pick up books in their adolescence because they are too busy being engaged by games on digital products. It doesn't matter if the game is a learning game or not, that game is gradually consuming the child's attention span to that of a fish, and the fact that society has lost the appetite for books in favor of the digital world is very terrifying. By not reading, children are not exercising sentence formation and spelling.
Human beings are gradually becoming addicted to the internet, and this is somewhat fed by their unwillingness to pick up the book and read. When there is nothing to do, people will turn to the internet to explore entertainment and leisure, and this action on a large scale and regularity is slowly getting the people addicted to the fact that there is endless knowledge under our fingertips. Different people are addicted to different things, of course. There is no one diagnosis' for internet addiction, but the fact that people spend so much time on their phones and their laptops pursuing entertainment has increased the probability of eventually getting addicted.
Millennials are often generalized as a group who cannot go three minutes without their phones, who must check even 1 notification and must respond to all messages the second it is received. This is an exaggeration, but only barely. Mobile Phone users, particularly millennials, have become so addicted to the internet and our equipment that they believe that if they do not instantly react when something is received, it will be lost forever. If humanity is to withstand, people have to put the phones down and think for themselves.
Search engines, are an amazing tool, ones that have made searching through thousands upon thousands of pages to find the one piece of information that you may need to finish a paper for ideology very simple, but many people feel that search engines are making us stupid. Because people no longer have to memorize small bits of information, whenever they need to know information, they look them up on the search engines, use the information and then forget it a second later. This is not reasonable because if humans use engines like Google for everything, the sense of learning becomes obsolete. Retaining knowledge and information is gradually slipping to become a tool of the past, as most people think that preserving knowledge makes someone more likely to slip up and give up information. The truth of the matter is, even a base knowledge in a lot of subjects is useful to life. If someone is a scientist and math and science are what they work with throughout the day, they still want to know, even basic, of English. If someone is a math major, having core knowledge of how music works can be profitable in their job. The fact that knowledge is so grimaced upon nowadays is, incredibly terrifying.
People have changed so much in a couple of years. Technology has developed to adjust human beings in ways they never even deemed, and this is good and bad.
The fact is, human beings have such an incredible tool at their disposal all the time, but by utilizing it in improper ways, they are slowly eroding themselves and their futures. Domain owners and website owners make money off of the addiction, and they profit in ways that a plurality of other people do not. In the future, humanity needs to understand that the internet is just a tool, and should be used as a tool.
There is nothing immoral with using the internet as recreation, but when it has become a global addiction, then we know it is time to improve the way we use the tools available to us.
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