The Internet: Good or Evil?

My grandmother used to say ‘Everything in excess is bad’, I think this expression fits so good with my opinion about the Internet. I think that as a source of information it is very useful for us. But the control of that information is almost impossible, and I’m talking about information that is uploaded as much as the information that we can see throw our screen. I think that this is a problem for the education of children, because they know how to use the internet so good, in most cases even better than their parents, so they can see a lot of things that may be inappropriate for their ages and the parents just can’t control the access to that information.

In the other hand, some people say that the new generations are lazy, because in other times if children needed some information, they had to look for hours in thousands of books and things like that and now it is not necessary, they just put a key word on google and they can find all the information they need. But I think it is not true. Maybe looking for something at Internet requires less effort than looking for it in books, but the learning after studying it is the same. Actually in less time they can access to much more information, so we can say that searching in the Internet allow them to study more.

In conclusion, I think that the internet is a good thing when we use it responsibly. We have to accompany the youngers and talk to them about the things they could find accidentally with confidence and maturity. We will be always improving our technology and we have to learn how to use it in the best way. The internet is a good tool, but as my grandmother said, ‘Everything in excess is bad’.