Jamie Nesbitt, Sandford Park, Ranelagh, Dublin
No matter how you choose to live your life, one thing is certain - the Internet has promised to change it for the better.
The Internet is seen as a new and inexhaustible source of all the information that one will ever need. Indeed, the Internet brings with it the promise of more information than one could ever usefully acquire in a lifetime. Therein lies the problem. Who actually needs, moreover desires, more information than they can possibly imagine? Anyone who has ever surfed the 'net will know that the amount of information out there is, as promised, vast. However, how much of this information is actually relevant to the original reason for going online? How many of you have begun searching for information, only to find yourself distracted by other, irrelevant, and most of the time useless, articles out there in cyberspace - that digital celebration of chaos?
When browsing the Internet, concentrating on just one idea is nigh-on impossible. Each time we round a virtual corner, having struggled through reams of irrelevance, yet more unwanted 'information' is thrown up in our way. The truth is, we are drowning in a cyber-ocean, and each desperate gasp for breath forces yet more stifling facts and figures down our throats. Our own creation, in place to help and inform, is in fact suffocating us.
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