The internet has greatly increased our access to information. To what extent do you think this is a good thing? Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience

People used to gather

information

from a very limited number of sources in the past, but with the advent of the Internet, there is a plethora of options available for

this

purpose. In my opinion,

this

is a positive development as everything is accessible

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the click of a button.

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essay will focus on how technology has played a vital role in providing numerous benefits to the masses.

Firstly

, the Internet can be called as a database having details of various aspects like health & fitness, food, lifestyle, history, geography and many more. Researchers and bloggers who tend to gather data on these major heads

also

upload

this

information

making it available for the masses benefitting them in many ways.

For example

, a food blogger

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visit

many restaurants and hotels on requests to taste the exclusive dishes prepared by them for their guests and give their feedback.

Moreover

,

this

feedback is

then

uploaded on their Instagram, Facebook and

Youtube

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YouTube

channels to be reviewed by the people who follow the blogger. In

this

way, public gets

information

on the types of cuisines being served around them.

Thus

, the Internet helps in spreading awareness about different things to a large number of individuals at a time.

Secondly

, the world has become a global village where everyone is connected to one another through the medium of web technologies. Having said

this

, the people have now become social animals more than ever as now they can chat, share

information

about anything with anyone and anywhere in fraction of seconds.

For instance

, one of my friends

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resides

in Germany and it has been more than a year since

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met

him but

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him, but

having

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the Internet right

inside my home,

i

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I

can now see him daily using Skype video call.

Also

,

this

makes me feel as if

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'm close and near to

him which

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him, which

further

gives me immense happiness.

Thus

, the net has definitely families, friends, relatives close to each other in a very short span of time. To sum up, without the Internet we would have been as primitive as the stone age civilisation having no network of people and things. It is a revolution in itself.