Persuasive Essay About The Internet

I remember the first time I sat on a computer; it was an IBM with a windows 98 installed. We didn’t have Internet connection at the time, and we mainly used our computer for work. The Internet has been around for almost half a century, it has helped us humans communicate easier, get around the world accessibly and exchange goods and services effortlessly. The Internet helped us facilitate a lot of tasks; in the past we had to do a lot of work to get something we needed. Nowadays all of what we can possibly want can be done with a click of a button. The Internet can enhance some of our cognitive abilities; understand thoroughly what we want to know, new concepts and different ways of acquiring knowledge and eventually sharpen our brains to live better.

Surfing the Internet

I think that the Internet is a great tool to look for information because it saves us time going to the library like Merlin looking for potion recipes that he might not even find. The amount of knowledge out there is very distracting and for the most part of it some of that information we might never even be able to use in our lives but still Google offers it instantly to us on a golden plate. People who think Google or the Internet, as a whole is distracting are completely right. The Internet is distracting but at the end it comes down to the decision we make when we there’s an advertisement popping on our screens and whether we should click on it and or ignore it and carry on with our original task or purpose that made us sit and open our laptop or desktop computer. Google can make us sharper because it gives us all this information and it is our turn to learn this information if we desire