After reading my fellow classmates blog posts about their Internet habits over a few days, it seemed that we had very similar uses for the Internet. People mentioned the weather, Facebook, YouTube, StumbleUpon, various news sites and DU websites like Blackboard and WebCentral. The Internet has become a tool for our generation partially for useful things like reading the news or Blackboard and also for entertainment like social networking, viral videos and games.
I mentioned last time how incredible the amount of information on the Internet there truly is and it's strange to think that we use it for entertainment primarily. There are people in other countries, even in our country I suppose, that couldn't get access to Internet even if they could afford it. The information available on the Internet could allow for every person to be globally aware and open possibilities for higher education. The resources online are astonishing and yet it seems we don't take advantage of them as well as we could.
It's also strange to think that grammatical rules and spelling are even an issue for students because they are literally a few keys and a click away on the Internet. Does e-mail and websites like Facebook cause our English to become more and more casual? I think that it does and that increases in technology are perhaps eroding the rules of English. It's strange to think how language evolves according to shifts in culture and I think that technology will certainly change the way we speak.
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