The Beauty of The Internet

The beauty of the internet is that it allows the thoughts of any individual to be expressed and heard by a potentially limitless audience. However, the ramifications of such an open and free system is that those individuals can have a voice whether they have a intelligible message or not. This often leads to profanity as well as personal attacks by individuals who have little in terms of concrete criticism to provide.

It is a has been an eternal struggle that only has beccomes more prevalent in the information age. What people need to realize, however, is that the internet was never and should never be considered a one way information source; moreover the freedom it provides is the very allure of it. Many argue that these websites are easily accessible to children and that something needs to be done. To that I say don’t let your children on the internet, or monitor them directly, or better yet set up an account with a limited number of websites they can visit. I know there is a great concern over the smut on the internet and children and for good reason, but by the ages of 13 most children have already been exposed to nearly everything they can be exposed to.