There are so many people who are against the internet and who believe it’s hurting our attention span and just our overall experience with books and newspapers. Authors and journalists across the world have lost their jobs because of the Internet. I don’t think this is a reason to dislike the internet. The internet does what the authors and journalists do, but ten times better.
The amount of opportunities the Internet provides for new jobs is unlike anything else. While many journalists and authors are losing their jobs because of the internet, millions of other people are finding them. This reminds me of a conversation between my father and me. My father thought i was lazy and would tell me that he used to work at a convenience store when he was in high school and that i should be doing the same. I then told him that I bought wholesale goods and sold them on ebay and made what he made in a month at the convenience store in just a couple of days on the internet. He stopped calling me lazy after that.
What I’m trying to say is that there are both sides at looking at the Internet. There are the haters and then there are the people who take advantage of the internet and use it to flourish. The internet obviously isn’t only good to make money or find jobs. We could do everything on the internet. We could speak to friends who are across the world in matters of seconds. You could video chat with someone you haven’t seen in years with a click of the mouse. The fact that there are people against the internet just confuses me.
I like how you’re siding on the positive aspects of the Internet. I’ve been mostly thinking about the negative side, such as laziness and dependence on technology, but there are many reasons to why the Internet is also a beneficial aspect to society.