Have you ever been browsing the web and what seemed like only a minute turned into hours of wasted, useless time? Millions of people log onto the Internet every day for safe, quick, easy, and reliable information, but what those millions of people do not realize is that the Internet has become more of a hobby of wasting time than a learning tool with adequate information.

Many students find it challenging to study in their room if they have a computer because the Internet at times causes a major distraction. Students abuse their privileges as Internet users by over using it and wasting valuable time that could have been spent studying. Getting on the Internet to find material for a paper or a project is not uncommon; however, it is also common to find something that catches your attention and wasting hours looking at irrelevant information. The Internet can hardly be c

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current information about a topic, one may read a web page that is a few weeks, a few months, or even a few years old. Out dated figures could be very misleading to a user, especially if the user is making personal decisions based on this old information. Another issue is that many of the sites are misleading. It is a matter of Russian roulette when looking up information. Someone can find information denying or devoted to a subject, such as the Holocaust. Many web sites are one-sided, such as the Ku Klux Klan, and the information given could be extremely bias. (Tilin 101). A student could gain a severe misunderstanding of a subject if the Internet is his only source for information.

uying CD, it hurts the music industry tremendously.

Though the Internet may seem like a pool of vast resources, it also proves to be unreliable, harmful, and a waste of the people's time. Many more reliable sources for information are just as accessible without the consumption of time and the risk of the Internet. The Internet has changed people's way of obtaining information and view on things and will continue to unless we limit ourselves.

Many young adults find information on the Internet that they do not need to have access to, such as sites that are appropriate only for adults and sites that hold information that could harm people. The Internet admits anyone who has access to it and can harm anyone who makes the first wrong click. Even when used as an information source much of the information retrieved is useless and only leads to trouble. The Internet is not censored because all of the major sites, such as Yahoo, Alta Vista, Excite, and Lycos, want the maximum number of people using their service. In the Columbine High School shootings, the boys easily had access to bomb making instructions thr

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