FOR. THE INTERNET, A BLESSING OR A CURSE FOR THE MILLENIAL GENERATION?

It has been asserted that the Internet has proved its worth. Over the past decades, the Internet has consistently preceded in everything around us, from what we see daily while passing the streets, at the vendor, even to the confines of our very homes, the Internet is ever present in our lives. However, every rainbow has an end and this particular ones end is self- evident through the several controversies that have been established over the evident negativity or positivity of its usage. Most people still wonder whether the saturation of the Internet and its devices in the mind is really advantageous or if the Internets scale is either tipped towards its nebulous curses or favour. The fact that the Internet is the vastest medium of communication is indisputable. There is no doubt that over the past decades, the Internet has rapidly dominated most of our social lives through its media and advanced communication technologies. It is obvious that the internet is now the domineering medium in communication technologies. Its advancement in several webs and its variety boosts its importance beyond belief. Regardless of the fact that certain age groups mostly use the Internet, it holds no restriction to what age may be required access. On this note, it is important to note the fact that diverse age groups for several reasons use the Internet. Social media, blogs, media upload sites, are just a little portion of what the gargantuan scale of the Internet entails. Since the creation of Internet, communication has taken a whirlwind for the betterment of mans communication. It has become so easy that just at the push of a button or two, a message can be sent within a second, there is no longer much need for oral communication and speeches. Distance also is no longer an issue to toil over, in addition to the phones used in calling; the Internet has also aided in curtailing this predicament. Besides, who would travel 60 miles to say a couple of sentences when one can just push a couple of buttons to get the deed done? Picture a world without internet, what would come to your mind, well if I were to imagine a world without internet the first thing that would define this loss for me would be the loss of a means through which I can research and find information. On this note, it is conscious to say that the Internet is like a weapon of information. Information is so rampant

on the Internet even to the extent it has become quite riotous. It encompasses of several arrays of different kinds of information required by a user. The Internet being the bane of our civilization today is what enables us to carry out research on certain topics and required information. Most countries, especially those in the third world are over populated. The Internet has aided in this predicament of unemployment by providing job opportunities. For instance, Google, a globally realized web search recently offers jobs to single mothers and independent mothers who have skills to work on certain sectors in the company. This example is a typical illustration, the Internet also provides by creating job opportunities for people such as bloggers, on-line tutors etc. Even business transactions occur over the web. With the use of Internet connections, financial transactions are made simplistic. Being the fountainhead of world globalization, we can come to a realization that the Internet is what makes the world what it is today. Reference to the world as a global village interconnects with the Internet as the foundation through which globalization was enabled occurrence. The level of technology man has been able to attain so far, falls bulkily on the shoulders of the Internet. The Internet is a support for most marketing sectors globally; it contributes immensely to the upheaval of advertisements and marketing. Its global nature enhances advertising and marketing of certain products. If the Internet where to be opened presently, adverts are always present, it is for its diverse nature of it s use that the Internet has become a profitable means of advertising. It is notable to see that the internets miscellaneous nature can be curse and a blessing. There is nothing in the world that does not have its disadvantages, what makes the difference between the good and bad is the ability of the merits to the aspect to overshadow the malfunctions. That is why on this note, although the internet has certain unlikely sectors mot would rather not dwell on it is still notable that the internet has proved too good to be a curse. Rather it has proved a blessing for the millennia century, at this rate we are going it is evident that most things in the near future will be Internet based. So what deciphers the internet as either good or bad, negative or positive is to which what the

user makes use of it. The internet has adhered to more than half of mans technological history, therefore it can not before gone rather, the internet can be built to support and enhance its advantages so as deteriorate its after effects.