Growing Up On The Internet

The Internet, do you think it's a good thing or bad thing? I personally think that the internet is a great invention, but there is many people using it for the wrong purpose. Take school for instance, if a student doesn't understand a topic, usually the student will not go directly to the teacher for help, because they don't want to be embaressed so instead they just go on the internet because all the information you need is virtaully ONE CLICK away. Most of the information on internet research sites is pretty acurrate and correct. So why not take the easy way out if you're not going to get in trouble right? Wrong. I think it should go back to reading books to find answers because I'm sure that kids don't even read what they are researching on the internet, i bet they copy and paste it and change a few words here and there so it looks like a students sence of word choice. As for having the internet as a social life, I don't really know what to say about that. You can't really give these kids trouble because all they are doing is trying to be a kid and fit in. Lets take " Autum Meadows" I think her name was. She had no friends when she was at school, until one day she got intoduced to the internet. She was 14 years old putting very sexual pictures on the internet, she was well developed, and sertanly did not look like she was 14. I thought she looked around 17 or so. This really helped her ego, she had hundreds and hundreds of friends on this site, more adding her everyday, people always talking to her, commenting on photos. She was loving it. Her mom eventually found out and Autum lost it all as quick as she had gained it. Her mother made here delete every single picture, which I thought would be so embarressing. Like I can see telling her to delete them on her own, then coming back to check and make sure they are all gone. But doing it right infront of her, that would be hell! I bet it taught her a good lession. When Autum turned 15 or 16 her mother let her get back on this site but not with the same revealing pictures. Her mom finally realized that Autum was an outsider and this is the life she loved. I believe that Autum was actually getting professional pictures done. She had the internet life back, and she seemed to be pretty content with that.
Overall, to me, I think that the internet is awsome, but has to be used in the correct manner.