The Internet- Flawed?

As Eugene Morozov spoke about, the internet does not only have positive aspects.

I'm going to start by pointing out what I found the most relevant in his speech.
First of all: connectivity. The ability to communicate faster is remarkable- except when people use it in a negative way. If people communicate wrong information and change the core of a certain truth, it is not being used in a good way.

So if people can communicate wrong ideas about anything, then no one is safe. Anyone can be targeted.

This is how the Rwanda genocide happened. Because so much hatred was targeted towards Rwanda. Over 800,000 Rwandans were killed in 100 days.

Now, cyberbullying might not affect such a big amount of people so fast, but it is a problem caused by technology. One can target a person and emotionally hurt them which would damage their self esteem. Who knows the consequences this can have?

Also, teenagers do not realize that because of facebook, people can follow us. If a teenager applies to a job, the managers can find us and see if we are ''appropriate'' for the job. Meaning that, even if one looks proper and polite, but have pictures of himself showing a complete other personality, his proper looks is become irrelevant.

During all of Eugene's speech, I was waiting for a point he did not even mention. I feel like because of technology, my generation is now way more antisocial. We are so hooked to our computers that we have lost almost all social skills. In my parents generation, if they wanted to speak to someone, they needed to call them- if not see them. For my generation, we can simply stay in our house, from the back of our computer, and see if they're online. Most of the time, if they aren't  we'll just find someone else to speak too.

Even though Internet is not flawless, I do believe that it does more good than bad. We can communicate faster, find better and newer information, learn what's going on around the world through the simple use of TWITTER ! Internet is almost a miracle.