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Okay, so – ways the internet has changed the world….spoiler…it has basically made
us all wizards!
10 - Social Media Without the internet there would be no social
media ….social media in itself has literally changed the world.
We have become an image focused society, and by that I don’t necessarily mean looks,
I mean we like to capture images.
We see our world through pictures these days.
Pictures have arguably overtaken the written word.
All of a sudden social media means we can physically get a glimpse of what people are
up to.
Snap chat…
Instagram stories..
they have taken off in a big way.
Social media has changed the way we eat food too – people standing on chairs at brunch,
camera in hand?
That didn’t happen before the internet.
Building on that at number 9 we have Business The internet has revolutionised the way we
do business.
Yes some businesses have been destroyed by the internet…or been dealt a blow, like
libraries for example, and…er…people that make encyclopedias….or travel agents, cable
TV, VHS stores….sure…going going gone….
But so much new business and new jobs have been created by the internet!
So, our first point was social media itself changing everything….
But also it opened up a whole new career sector.
Pretty much every business has a social media account or several and usually it is someone’s
job to manage that.
My job….youtubers, Twitch streamers, social media celebs, e commerce, Buzzfeed, Uni Lad….life
and work as most of us millennials know it was created with the .com.
Coming into number 8, we have the sexy little matter of Storage.
Storage.
Things.
Clutter.
The internet was a game changer when it came to organisation!
Slowly but surely the internet has reduced the number of books in production….DVD and
CD collections are no longer a thing.
Things like that took up a lot of room in the home and by and large they no loner exist.
A real game changer – at number 7 News Is Instant
Minutes, or sometimes even seconds after a huge event, the world knows about it thanks
to the speed of the internet.
Prior to the internet, people got their news from newspapers, who got their stories from
painstaking research or tip offs.
Even following global events of significance, people had to wait for News Papers to be printed.
Now, every one knows everything straight away and online news publications can update their
websites as stories develop.
Instant news has actually also played a key role in safety – the internet allows us
to know what is going on so we don’t walk into the middle of it, and also lets people
communicate that they are safe a lot easier.
The impact instant news has had on the environment in terms of cutting down on waste paper has
been totally insane.
It isn’t just news that is instant these days – so is correspondence….
We have Email I know that post is vaguely still a think,
and don’t get me wrong….
I love a good bit of post…it excites me every damn time.
5 - Online Shopping So….these days you literally can buy anything
you want off the internet….and it arrives at your door.
You do not need to leave the house if you don’t want to.
Grocery shopping, clothes shopping, ordering a couch…you can even order beer to your
door if you want to.
The internet has made that possible.
It has also royally screwed up small business..
but you know…soon you’ll be able to get pizza delivered by a drone.
4 Global communications Live in a different country, no problem…you
can still speak to your best mates and family at the other side of the world.
One of my best friends and I communicate via voice message on WhatsApp and it is a game
changer.
If you want to locate your old school mates when you are 50, you absolutely can.
Because of the internet, nobody is ever truly lost.
If you want to connect with someone you can.
Long distance relationships are way easier, as is doing business with
3 Hand held full entertainment centre Before the dawn of the internet, if you had
sat there and told someone in the 1950s say, that you could hold a device in the palm of
your hand that allowed you to call your friends with a video chat, allowed you to listen to
music, play games, watch an film or TV show of your choice, tell the time wherever you
are in the world, tell you the temperature and more…
they would look at you like you are literally a wizard and maybe you are!
A bit of a downer at number 2… but because of the internet, Privacy is no longer thing…Not
if facebook has any say, anyway.
The internet means that websites know you.
They have your data.
They store it.
There are files and files about you.
Your browsing data is stored.
The internet knows your GPS location…which has actually been used in courts of law.
Some people have even caught their partners cheating via GPS information.
But the most important way that the world has changed …. A total mental shift from
the younger half of the world…and something the younger generation are born into….we
are Always connected.
This is a blessing and a curse.
In some ways, we never need to be alone as there is a whole world at our finger tips,
always a friend a button away, but at the same time…there is no escape.
You cant forget an ex, you cant escape a school bully…work emails plague your phone.
Even when you are peeing, taking 5 minutes to yourself….
Your phone is still there connected.
These days iphones are waterproof …so you can even use them in the shower….
The water was the only place we had…and even now the internet can find us there.
So that was our Top 10 ways The Internet has Changed …. What do you think?
Which on this list do you think is the biggest change
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