Journal #9

I don’t think that the advances of the internet are making me stupid, of course you do have those slacker who use the internet as their base of knowledge and believe everything they read. There is a slight drawback to how much there is on the internet; it makes it extremely easy to plagiarize or cheat. On the other hand it makes information so much more accessible to many more people than could have previously been reached. I think some people have used the internet to fake knowledge which in the long run only hurts them, but without the internet they would have found another way to do this. I believe that there will always be people who, no matter what technology is out there, will use all means necessary to avoid work, the internet has just made this easier for some. But over all I don’t think the internet is a deterrent to gaining knowledge but rather something that can further it.