Internet is the platform that is rewiring all of the different ways for which the mind of a human operates. It has taken more of the skeptical approach towards the internet along with its increased use as a source of the medium for reading. Internet is the one that has changed a way that one reads and it has also shortened the attention span along with the contemplation and the capacity as well. Google has changed our minds and may be made all of us stupid. But here one things needs to be clarified that whether it’s a complete positive or a negative development. In personal, I incline towards the uncertainty when any of the thing starts to evolve out all of a sudden without any regard of the triple effects. Thinking of human being is considered to be the most important element for the existence and it is completely uncomfortable to think about it that it is considered to be the subject towards the alteration. Here in this, we are going to talk about the positive as well as the negative impacts of Internet on our lives and how the Internet have changed our life completely?

Introduction of How the Internet have changed our life?

Internet is the platform that has turned all of our existence upside down. It has certainly revolutionized the way of communication, towards the extent that is now considered to be known as the preferable medium for the communication to be done on daily basis. Whatever we do these days, in almost each and everything internet is being used. Starting from ordering an inline pizza, buying any mobile phone or TV, sharing a personal moment with the friends or loved ones or event sending any of the picture over an instant messaging. Before the discovery of internet, if anyone had to keep up with any kind of news, one need to walk down towards the newsstand and wait for it till it gets opened. Now one can easily know about the news within minutes by a single search button. (Slevin, 2007)

Internet itself has been transformed over the time. In the early days when the Internet just got discovered, it used to be one of the static network that has been designed for the shuttling of small bytes or even the short message between two different terminals. But now in today’s world, almost every single person have this Internet at their homes and they get connected. Number of different kind of the information is being uploaded and one can easily download it whenever and however they want to. (Tan, 2010)

Main Body of How the Internet have changed our life?

1. Positive impact of Internet on our lives:

Internet no doubt is one of the biggest discovery one can ever talk about. We can search about anything by just a single click. There are number of different benefits which we are going to talk about the internet.

Internet is one of the biggest way of communication. Anyone can see talk to their loved ones or even see them no matter in which part of the world they live. One can share their memories with others. This is the easy and the safest way to communicate with the friends, family or any loved one. (Colley, 2008)

Internet gives us a lot of the information. I believe each and everything is present on the Internet and one can avail this opportunity by just a single click and can get information about anything no matter whether how small or the large thing is. One can know about the different things or the events that are taking place around them by sitting home.

Online shopping is also one of the biggest advantage of this Internet. No matter whether someone wants to order their favorite food or the favorite outfit. They can get it by staying at home and ordering online. This helps in saving time and one can feel easy and relaxed. (McMillan, 2006)

Internet has clearly impacted on almost every kind of the education system through providing number of different unbounded responsibilities for learning as well. Here I believe that because of Internet, future of this education is a kind of networked future. People by the help of Internet can create and then share the knowledge and by this they can also develop some of the new ways of teaching as well as learning too that helps in captivation and stimulation of the students imagination at any time and at any moment by the use of device. Through connecting and then empowering the students along with the educators, we can also speed up the economic growth and can also enhance the well-being of this complete society in the whole world. We need to work together by the help of network for building of a global learning society. This can only be done by the help of Internet and its use as well. (Amichai-Hamburger, 2011)

2. Some of the Negative effects of internet on our lives:

There is no doubt in it that all of us are conversant with the Internet word and its usage since very young age but here the difference has been felt and that is that brain of human beings operate that is quite parallel or directly associated with the increased level of time that is being spend on Internet and staying online. I found out that all of us start getting annoyed when any of the page takes even 30 seconds to load. At the previous times, things were quite different. Loading of the page at this speed seemed to be quite quick and fast as well. But now things have been changed a lot and Internet is controlling our minds greatly. We feel completely incomplete and life seems so dry when there is no Internet around us. We feel that life is completely incomplete without this Internet. It is greatly controlling our minds and we don’t feel like doing anything else at all and this picture seems to be very horrible. (Ogan, 2008)

It was pretty much difficult for me to select that which kind of the quotes need to be part of this Essay and which should not as I felt each and every part is so important that it needs to be in Essay. Rise in technology along with the overwhelming availability of the information, digital age is the one that has come about in all of the forces and they can only grow up from here. Internet no doubt is the platform from where one can get any of the information and can increase their knowledge easily.

Google is the platform that reduces all of the effort to get an access for the information. These days everyone is so busy in finding the solutions from internet according to the writer that they don’t have enough time to spend reading books or be creative enough. By the use of google, people start depending upon the ideas and opinions of others and they don’t think on their own. Before the excessive use of Internet, people used to be creative and their minds also used to get sharp but as now Google is being used at everyone’s home it made people completely helpless and they don’t even make any of the effort to think on their own. “I am not the only here. When I mention about the different kind of troubles in regard to the friends, most out of them say the same that they are also having the same experience.” It can be understood here easily that how different people living in a society are being affected by the excessive use of Google as well as Internet because all of them have been going fast to many of the ideas at a same moment and no one is even using their complete power of critical thinking for the building of an ideas.(Holt, 2015)

Another issue that has been found is the privacy that is associated with the Internet. Users of Internet are these days becoming more sensitive towards the sight that privacy is the factor that needs to be present in our lives and one should for sure have it. But as everyone has started using Internet so much I believe that the word privacy has been gone from our lives. There is nothing personal in anyone’s life as it used to be in the previous times before the discovery of an Internet. (Anderson, 2012)

Conclusion of How the Internet have changed our life?

According to my opinion what I think or believe is that everything has positive as well as the negative effects. One can’t say anything completely positive about any certain thing nor can one say that there is everything negative about the certain thing. Same is the case here with the Internet and its impact on our lives, it has positive as well as the negative effects on our lives. Now it is completely upon the individual that how they look up to the use of an Internet and how that person use it.

Internet has changed the lives and this is one of the biggest and beneficial discovery one can ever be thankful about. Our lives completely depend upon the use of Internet and one can’t even think to spend their life without the use of Internet in their lives at all. Everyone is busy in using Internet and I believe only 10-20% of the population don’t use the facility of Internet in their lives and the reasons vary.

On the other side, Google and Internet as it makes and already has made people much lethargic and lazy and their opinions have also been scattered a lot by now. Human beings start depending more on the artificial intelligence then ultimately the man intelligence will also become same like an artificial intelligence. It has been believed this that people won’t be even 1% capable to think on their own and take decisions for their lives. But on the other side I also believe that google even makes people way more smart because they can easily find information all of the time whenever they want to. It has made the lives of people much easy and they can also communicate with their loved ones whenever they want to no matter where that are in the globe. Well time can prove that whether people are losing the ability to think or even getting better or smarter than the google.

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