Does The Internet Make Us More Social?

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The internet does help find knowledge and open the doors for good and easy information, but not all of the information you find or see is true information. It could be a mix of things and also the internet does not let you think for yourself, you search,find and move on to something else you're looking for. The web is not that safe but again its not that bad. When you are always on the computer almost seven days a week then you're kind of using it to much if you just use it like a few times a day for short periods you will be fine. Does the internet make us more social? I came up with that it only makes us social on the internet but it doesn’t change in person. The internet is an easily distraction for a lot of things, once you're on doing …show more content…

From talking to people to playing games everyone is at some point on the internet for awhile. The internet is also making more and more kids lazy to want to stay inside and not want to eat dinner or go to the store with out the game, this is exactly how the internet is getting, just like a game council, it takes your mind off things to sit down and play for about ten mins and then half hour goes by you're still on it. Except the internet has this plus more which makes us want to be on it and don’t want to get off. It’s like when you're on the web your in your zone and nothing can take you out unless you got out of it yourself. I have been at my nephews house and he gets yelled at for not getting off of it because he does not listen to his mother and cares way too much about the computer. I believe that the internet does not make us smarter just more aware to what we know and understand. The internet is a bunch of information that is good and bad and information from someone that either knows or try’s to know what they are talking …show more content…

They also will be distracted in outside of school activities to, if the parent is trying to get them to do homework they will just not be interested in learning because they're so focused on having fun and playing that one game. I have a 2 year old nephew and whenever my sister sets her phone down,Damian instantly runs for it and unlocks it and plays music that she has because she has shown him how to use it now he thinks that he needs to always have it in his hands for music and music videos that she has. He also learned how to turn on the t.v with the remote and he always tries to turn on dinosaurs,which is his favorite movie atm. Does the internet make children more socialized?,I believe that it doesn’t but some say it does but I say this because anyone can be social behind a computer, but in the real world the same person you were just talking to you kind of feel shy in person just talking either from an old school buddy or a person you haven't seen in a minute. Being social online doesn’t help me atleast talk to big crowds, I get stage fright. The internet kind of has a lot of negatives and a few positives. For children its excellent for when on car rides, having internet on your phone you can turn a video,or a song on while on a

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