Living Online

The World Wide Web, or commonly known as, the internet, was launched and governed from an advance research project agency in 1996. This new invention quickly opened the curiosity and endless possibilities that any human beings could take advantage of. Although the internet did bring us many possibilities leading to wealthy incomes and a substantial amount of fame, but in the end, did it is cause us more problems than we expected?

With the advance features the internet provides us, it quickens the process of not only transferring information, but more importantly, the communication between people. Did this invention become exactly what the generation needed?

Let’s first take a look as to where the internet brought down the community as far as free information released to the world. When the internet was created, communities and forums were brought together to share with one another free information. Once this was leaked to more and more individuals, this started to become a problem for young adolescents. In one of the articles by the APA press release from apa.org, they state that: “To understand the role the Internet plays in linking marginalized adolescents and spreading potentially damaging behaviors, Cornell University researchers Janis L. Whitlock, PhD, Jane L. Powers, PhD, and John Eckenrode, PhD, explored the role Internet message boards play in creating communities centered around self-injurious practices. Self-injurious behavior typically refers to a variety of behaviors in which the individual purposefully inflicts harm to his or her body without the obvious intent of committing suicide. The authors observed 406 message boards to investigate how adolescents solicit and share information related to self-injurious behavior. Females 14-20 years of age visited these bulletin boards the most.” If this is the case, we can clearly see that not only the people that stand by this free information, but the creation

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