The Internet

A more modern generation is emerging from consuming e-media rather than traditional methods like letters and radios to communicate and to be entertained. Although these was are no longer intact as technology has allowed people to communicate more easily as well as faster and easily accessible and generally more convenient as people can check updates on the go by accessing the Internet through their mobiles. This is convergence. Also the web allows people to upload information onto their and this makes it more interactive as today’s generation like to feel part of things and are no longer passive like the hypodermic needle theory suggests.


However some say that we rely on the Internet too much and don’t allow us to think for ourselves as we assumes that the Internet is smarter than the human mind but things posted could be inaccurate. Furthermore there are dangers such as privacy and security. Places where this may occur on the Internet could be chat rooms as its a place where paedophiles groom younger kids to gain their trust and eventually hurt them physically/emotionally. Also the fact that the Internet is so large it allows people to even find out when people are at home or not so it makes burglary more easy via Google streetmap. So the issue raised is whether its safe enough.

The Internet may be essential for our kids' education, but it's riddled with online predators, seeking children to "groom" for abuse. Google is supposedly "making us stupid" and shattering our concentration into the bargain. It's also allegedly leading to an epidemic of plagiarism. File sharing is destroying music, online news is killing newspapers, and Amazon is killing bookshops as outlined by an article by the Guardian: The internet: Everything you ever need to know