Does the Internet hinder human interactions
Joshua Morris
English 110
October 3, 2013
The Internet Hinders Human Interaction All my life I have been addicted to computers, and most of the time my urge to be on the laptop has kept me inside and prevented me from playing football and other sports with my friends. The Internet is a big reason why people communicate less with one another. It works kind of like a drug because of the way it controls the human mind. The Internet hinders human interactions because of the way it consumes people’s time, alters their behavior and influences their educational research. The reason I barely made it on time to karate class sometimes was mainly because of the Internet; either I would be playing an online computer game or I would be stuck in a web-chat conversation. My experiences prove that the Internet can be very time-consuming because of the variety of things people can do. Instead of spending time with friends, people can just Facebook chat with them. Also people don’t have to meet up face to face; they can just web-chat. With all this time being spent on the Internet, it is stopping people from having normal relationships with their friends and family. Because the Internet tends to take up so much time, it starts to affect the behaviors of people mentally by making them anti-social. Their behaviors tend to change because they start to lose their social skills. For example, some people may use the Internet by picking on others, which is called cyber bullying. This behavior happens because people feel that it is easier and more humiliating if they bully someone over the Internet. The Internet makes people feel more comfortable with bullying because it’s anonymous and they don’t see the pain that they cause. Furthermore, it can make people suffer from discomfort because of its ability to feed their paranoia. People’s behavior can change for the worse or better because of their desire to find more information.
English 110
October 3, 2013
The Internet Hinders Human Interaction All my life I have been addicted to computers, and most of the time my urge to be on the laptop has kept me inside and prevented me from playing football and other sports with my friends. The Internet is a big reason why people communicate less with one another. It works kind of like a drug because of the way it controls the human mind. The Internet hinders human interactions because of the way it consumes people’s time, alters their behavior and influences their educational research. The reason I barely made it on time to karate class sometimes was mainly because of the Internet; either I would be playing an online computer game or I would be stuck in a web-chat conversation. My experiences prove that the Internet can be very time-consuming because of the variety of things people can do. Instead of spending time with friends, people can just Facebook chat with them. Also people don’t have to meet up face to face; they can just web-chat. With all this time being spent on the Internet, it is stopping people from having normal relationships with their friends and family. Because the Internet tends to take up so much time, it starts to affect the behaviors of people mentally by making them anti-social. Their behaviors tend to change because they start to lose their social skills. For example, some people may use the Internet by picking on others, which is called cyber bullying. This behavior happens because people feel that it is easier and more humiliating if they bully someone over the Internet. The Internet makes people feel more comfortable with bullying because it’s anonymous and they don’t see the pain that they cause. Furthermore, it can make people suffer from discomfort because of its ability to feed their paranoia. People’s behavior can change for the worse or better because of their desire to find more information.