It's hard to imagine today's world without the Internet.I guess that most people are likely to agree that this technology has changed our life for better. And I would gladly share their opinion, but I can't.
You can't deny the fact that people have never had through the whole history such an unprecedented access to information. For many centuries knowledge has been sacred. Only people of certain social layers like clergy, aristocracy and , of course, people of power had the right of using books. The Internet is even difficult to compare to the era of printed books, bookshops and libraries. The use of the Internet for educational needs is hard to underestimate.
Needless to say that it saves our time. With a single click of a mouse we can find any information we need. Not only can we satisfy our information hunger in such an easy way. We can go shopping online. We can order plane tickets or pizza without lifting our bottom from the chair. Being a huge music fan I can't ignore the fact that I have downloaded almost all the music I dreamed about and I've found much more.
However, there are some buts which do not let me agree that everything is so nice about the Internet. The first one is that the Internet is often used for bad purposes. Our private life is in danger. For example, it's not a secret that all our personal data are collected and even sold. Anyone,if needed can track our likes and dislikes, our thoughts. Not less terrible is the fact that our children, surfing the internet, come across so called websites for adults. And even playing video games online they become addicted and often dyslexic. And,of course, what we believed at some point would help us get closer to each other, I mean different messengers and social networking sites,in fact make us feel lonely.