The Internet- a curse, not a blessing.
Beyond a shadow of a doubt, the invention of the Internet is one of mans greatest and most
spectacular endeavours. For, it has truly revolutionalized the world in regards to how we
engage in business, recreate, socialize, educate ourselves and communicate with each
other. The Internet eliminated all impediments of conventional methods of operations.
Through its construction, the world economies have flourished. Therefore, it can be said in
a nut shell, that the Internet has made life on earth easy to say the least; but to what
expense?
Through studying history, we all know that not everything that was created to make our
lives easier has concluded with the improvement of society. In fact, a great number of
mans inventions have contributed to the destruction of our planet. Benjamin Franklyn once
said that man is a tool-making animal, accordingly, often we have observed the destruction
of the world due to mans well-intended inventions. With such inventions as the
automobile, train and aeroplane, the ozone layer is now threatened. Through mans desire
to produce a better fruit and to expand his farm resources, insecticides now kill and destroy
the earths plant and animal life. And through mans desire to have more space in order to
progress and to live, deforestation has changed the oxygen cycle, resulting in there being
more carbon dioxide in the air, which in fact heats up the earth. In that same light, the
Internet too, is destroying mankind. For it is corrupting our way of thinking, work ethics
and is ultimately making the people of the earth lazy. Truly, the once godsend is now
proving itself to be a curse.
The Internet is the worlds largest network that connects businesses, government agencies,
educational institutions, and individuals. But what are we exactly linked up to? The answer
to that is simple: pornography and violence. Due to the Internets large database, one, at a
mere whim, is able to click a simple button to enter the world of porn and filth. In fact,
there has also been a connection between the exposure to many forms of pornography and
various antisocial behaviours, including violence against women. Moreover, even without
purposely clicking onto pornography links, unwanted sexually explicit pop ups plague the
average Internet users computer. I remember once doing a research paper on breast cancer,
when upon typing in the word breasts onto a particular search engine, literally scores of
sexually explicit pop ups terrorized my computer. They fiendishly popped up, one after the
