The internet as we know it is one of the most used tools I the world. It does not only impact us in our work, but it also impacts us in other areas like the arts and the way we communicate. But this does not mean the internet changes us as human beings, that’s a lie. The internet just helps us do the things we love and need more simple, or at least that is what this article I read says. It also says that the internet can change our attitude and reduce our time and money for various reason not mentioned in the article.  This very useful tool has had a huge impact on how we see education. When I was a kid, all of my classes were in school, like in a real classroom. Now days, if people want to take their classes online they can and they do not have to step into a real life classroom, which is very impressive, especially for the older people who are not just to this kind of technology.

At the beginning I talked about how the internet has impact us not only in our work, but also in the arts, especially in areas like movies, journalism, and music.  Based on a study with 1,200 participants, it was shown that they all had websites, which they used to sell tickets for their projects, upload videos about those projects and also maintain a Facebook pages for more information sharing. This was a study based on movie companies and that kind of sort.

Another area that has seen changes is journalism. Just like the movies, most people write their articles on the internet. Let’s take for example this article, you are seeing this on a WordPress blog, which you have access to because of the internet. No, I am not calling myself a journalist, what I am saying is that just like me, there is people who write article (much better articles that on my blog) about different things on their blogs about different things, and you get to read them through the internet. This also happens with people who give the news on the internet, they are in some way journalist, not because it is not in the traditional way, it doesn’t mean they are not doing the same thing and sometimes (most of the time let’s be honest) even better than the traditional news.

Keeping the arts subject, the internet has impact the way we listen to music completely. We first started to listen to music on the radio, now days we listen to it on different apps like Spotify, Pandora, Youtube, and iTunes. This I feel is the biggest thing the internet has given us and that is amazing. Most people get discovered because they upload their covers to Youtube and people listen to it and boom there are famous because of the people seeing them sharing and liking one simple video. People get famous for basically for nothing too. Some people just upload videos of them doing very stupid stuff, which leads me to my next topic, the way we communicate now days.

This is also one thing, just like music, that has change is the way we communicate. At first, people used to talk over letters they send to each other, then phones came along and people talked on those, then cellphones, then it came the text messages and now we just talk through the internet. Who imagined 30 years ago that we were going to be able to talk to a person who is on the other side of the world face to face through a screen? Literally now one. I am sure that if you said that was going happen to someone at that time they would have thought that you were crazy, but that is not the case, because it happened, the future happened and we have to thank the internet for that because it has changed for the better.

The internet has not only impacted the arts, but it has also impact education as we know it. It may have not been as much of a big impact as it has been for the arts and communications, but it has been very noticeable. When I was in middle school everything was physical, what I mean with that is that we had books. But everything changed when I got to high school where everything was digital. It was great because I did not have to carry those heavy books everyday all day. But at the same time in my case, it made me study a bit less, because it was just a bit more boring for some reason, I am more old fashion I guess, but I prefer physical books. But most of the people I know liked that much more than having book all the time. When I got to college, EVERYTHING was through the internet. You can even take classes online which is fascinating for me because that means you do the work at your time whenever you want. Because of things like this I believe the internet is great.

The internet has impacted so many aspects of our life and we do not even realize it most of the time. It became way more than a place to look for information, it became a very important and very useful places for our daily lives. Yes, the internet tends to have its dark sides, which I decided not to mention till now because I prefer talking about the positive aspect of what the internet really is. But the reality is that everything good has its bad. The bad impact on the internet is the people who use it for things other than what it is for. Some people do things such as cyberbullying, which is a big problem that should really be resolved. Others get so obsess with the idea of being someone they are not, they become miserable and do not know how to get back to who they really are.

The internet is amazing, and we should be able to enjoy it the way it is meant for. The many positive impacts that it has done are only going to grow with time because that is what technology is, it only goes forward, never back. As I mentioned earlier, the internet has impacted our daily lives whether we like it or not, so we will just have to live with it and learn how to appreciate it. We need to try and use it the right way and for the right reasons, if we do that we will notice all of those good things it does. And one thing I learned is that if you have a talent, use the internet because it is posible you will have success if you show it on this huge platform of what the internet is.

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