Writer's Block: The Internet
Hmm...I love the internet, personally. But everything that is good has some downfalls. Examples? Chocolate. Most people greatly enjoy chocolate. It is a good thing, yes? But it, like every other good thing, it has a bad part about it; a downfall. Chocolate's downfall? It has so much sugars, carbs, etc, that, if consumed in large amounts without proper exercise, it can cause you to acquire more body fat. Okay, so I think you get the point that everything has a downfall.
Addiction. It's something that everyone has to something on some scale. Whether it be a small addiction or one blown way out of proportion, everyone has one. Many seem to have one to the internet, as well as a more tangible thing like coffee, although coffee has little to do with the internet.
You might say that I have an addiction to the internet. I'm often daydreaming about this site or another, thinking of what will happen when I get on later to talk to my friends. The general thing like that. And such a thing can distract one from his or her work. It certainly does me. I mean, I get on my laptop, being lucky enough to...somewhat own one, when I am not supposed to. After I'm supposed to be in bed. Even before I had my laptop, I was up after I was supposed to be in bed. Up reading a book or playing a game on my DS. But with the laptop, and being lucky to have a downstairs room; parent's are upstairs; I am not often questioned about what I do at night, and not often checked upon. My parents trust that I am in bed, when, in actuality, I am not.
And because of staying up much later than I have before, I lose sleep. Sure, at the time it doesn't seem to affect me so much, but it hurts the next day, during school. Boring classes can lead to one, even one with proper sleep, to drift off and be on the edge of sleeping. That border of sleep and wakefulness...if that's a word. I drift during classes, if it is a boring one. I do so nearly everyday, usually Geometry. And, on even days; my school having block scheduling divided by even and odd days by day number; English, sometimes, even though English is one of my favorite subjects.
And as for the world..? Perhaps the same idea of addiction. But there have been worse problems provided by the Internet. People saying that they are someone, like the Bill Kaulitz incident a while ago, to get things from others, including personal photographs. Over the internet, it is so easy to say someone you aren't. Especially when young children are allowed to access the web, and they not experienced enough to be able to tell if one is lying or not, and naïve enough to believe such things.
Even revengeful people posting nude images of a celebrity over the internet. That causes much chaos around the world. Not to mention fakeries of things, like the hoax that Gabe Saporta, of the band Cobra Starship, was dead. The person that created it made a certificate of death. Some parts were cut off, such as the cause of death, and it seemed real enough....until you looked at the date of death, which was proclaimed to be the next day. But still, it caused much grief for those that simply saw it, and didn't look at all of the information that was....forged, for lack of a better word to use.
These things are just stupid things that people do....but they are problems, because people are figuring out how to do stuff like that more and more. And, with the young age that we let children use computers at, it can be a severely bad thing. We let children as young as 6, granted, I was one of those children, access the Internet. With what is out there, it's no wonder that they aren't all corrupt.
So, as I wrap this up because I realize that I am ranting like crazy, the Internet has created problems for myself and for the world as a whole.
Have you had problems yourself?
Chat it up <3
Addiction. It's something that everyone has to something on some scale. Whether it be a small addiction or one blown way out of proportion, everyone has one. Many seem to have one to the internet, as well as a more tangible thing like coffee, although coffee has little to do with the internet.
You might say that I have an addiction to the internet. I'm often daydreaming about this site or another, thinking of what will happen when I get on later to talk to my friends. The general thing like that. And such a thing can distract one from his or her work. It certainly does me. I mean, I get on my laptop, being lucky enough to...somewhat own one, when I am not supposed to. After I'm supposed to be in bed. Even before I had my laptop, I was up after I was supposed to be in bed. Up reading a book or playing a game on my DS. But with the laptop, and being lucky to have a downstairs room; parent's are upstairs; I am not often questioned about what I do at night, and not often checked upon. My parents trust that I am in bed, when, in actuality, I am not.
And because of staying up much later than I have before, I lose sleep. Sure, at the time it doesn't seem to affect me so much, but it hurts the next day, during school. Boring classes can lead to one, even one with proper sleep, to drift off and be on the edge of sleeping. That border of sleep and wakefulness...if that's a word. I drift during classes, if it is a boring one. I do so nearly everyday, usually Geometry. And, on even days; my school having block scheduling divided by even and odd days by day number; English, sometimes, even though English is one of my favorite subjects.
And as for the world..? Perhaps the same idea of addiction. But there have been worse problems provided by the Internet. People saying that they are someone, like the Bill Kaulitz incident a while ago, to get things from others, including personal photographs. Over the internet, it is so easy to say someone you aren't. Especially when young children are allowed to access the web, and they not experienced enough to be able to tell if one is lying or not, and naïve enough to believe such things.
Even revengeful people posting nude images of a celebrity over the internet. That causes much chaos around the world. Not to mention fakeries of things, like the hoax that Gabe Saporta, of the band Cobra Starship, was dead. The person that created it made a certificate of death. Some parts were cut off, such as the cause of death, and it seemed real enough....until you looked at the date of death, which was proclaimed to be the next day. But still, it caused much grief for those that simply saw it, and didn't look at all of the information that was....forged, for lack of a better word to use.
These things are just stupid things that people do....but they are problems, because people are figuring out how to do stuff like that more and more. And, with the young age that we let children use computers at, it can be a severely bad thing. We let children as young as 6, granted, I was one of those children, access the Internet. With what is out there, it's no wonder that they aren't all corrupt.
So, as I wrap this up because I realize that I am ranting like crazy, the Internet has created problems for myself and for the world as a whole.
Have you had problems yourself?
Chat it up <3