Power of The Media in the 21st Century

    Since the start of the cyber world, there have been many questions and doubts as to the internet not being safe, as well as it being a helpful epithet. In the new millennium year 2000, the cyber network was introduced as a new way to communicate via emails and it was just one big new social interaction that everyone was getting used to. Over time they started to modernize and add new sources and knowledge to computers which made it the smartest creation ever built in the 21^stcentury. What was once used as a data book and a mailbox is now the world’s biggest franchise and world network connecting people from across the world. Containing more history than a textbook can provide, a social network, a study screen, just one overall huge gadget that you can now also travel with anywhere you go. The internet has become the most used product ever invented besides the cell phone, and even cell phones now compete for the best internet service for their model phones.  The internet broadly is helpful for anyone trying to learn; from students to adults it makes no difference.

     If we the students and the people didn’t have internet to begin with I wouldn’t be writing this easy determining that internet is useful in a lot of ways, but that’s just the obvious. Even if you’re not using the internet to find information about something or someone you still end up finding out innocently, much of the worldly news is advertised now on big companies search engines like Google, msn, and AOL. Also teenagers and adults now find news even on social networks where friends are daily dosing and posting every few seconds and so. As a student I believe that the internet has created a new way for people to learn and develop new skills for instance; when the internet became popular so did instant messaging sights and everyone stayed in contact to ask what homework had to be done for a specific class as well as slang or short writing like “LOL” meaning Laughing Out loud, “BRB” Be Right Back, and “TTYL” Talk To You Later. All these short ways to describe a moment were developed by and for the internet; these sayings have become famous and popular all over the network. “But their participation is giving them the technological skills and literacy they need to succeed in the contemporary world. They’re learning how to get along with others, how to manage a public identity, how to create a home page” (Teenagers’Internet Socializing Not a Bad Thing: By Tamar Lewin). This article explains how many people miss interpret the use of the internet and what kids are using it for and how. “New media allow for degree of freedom and autonomy for youth that is less apparent in a classroom setting” also By Tamara Lewin, states that teenagers feel more comfortable sharing and exchanging words with friends rather than adults.

      If you were to take away the internet from such a competing environment as to what  it has become over the years, we’d all decrease in certain skills and have naked parts of our brain that will never be developed. Not everyone agrees with the idea that the internet is needed and will be the greatest accomplishment over the next decade, but for now it seems that it’s the most helpful source next to dictionaries and encyclopedias. We do waste a lot of time using the cyber world, but what would we make of it if we didn’t have it? Well crimes will start to be visited in the minds of criminals since there’s nothing else to do, people would watch more TV and play more video games which if in any case is as bad as using the internet.  In the article “Is Google making us stupid?” the author states “I know have almost totally lost the ability to read and absorb a longish article on the web or in print”. Some people have difficulties reading two different texts if it’s on screen or on paper, some have a problem trying to modernize and lack the ability to always blend in with society and keep up with the world.

      The internet is a good and a bad place for you to spend most of your time in. it just depends on what you use it for, if it’s for a productive use or just for entertainment. The internet is like a 24 hour newspaper available all the time at just a click away. In the article is Google making us stupid says “Google’s desire to solve problems that have never been solved before”, why hasn’t anyone tried to answer everyone question I think it’s just the lack of knowledge and capacity that makes us turn on that computer screen or smart phone The Human brain is just an outdated computer that needs a faster processor and a bigger hard drive. The internet can be bad if you’re overly distracted most of the time, and are using it to harm people.

       The internet was made to make people have information quicker and manage their lives easier. The network only affects teenagers if you’re not learning anything, it can affect you negatively. All in the entire cyber world will be the best creation that changed the world completely with a complete turnaround of modernization.