Do you sometimes wonder if the internet is bane or a blessing ?

In fact, i was always wondering about this question. I still remembered that when I just went to this university in 2003, I know nothing about the internet. But one day, one of my new friends taught me how to communicate on line, i totally trap myself on line from then on. After these years in university, I do think the internet help me a lot, no matter finding information or past-time jobs. I cannot imagine what it will be like if there is no internet anymore suddenly one day. I prefer it is a blessing, because we are now using it while communicating with you here.

Oh yes definitely! Sometimes I think I am productive for nothing and I wonder why I would be so busy sitting in front of the computer! When I recall the stuff I do, most of them are not really relevant to my goals *laughs*. Now I come to think of it, I often find myself being busy for nothing, really.

Internet is both. Most of all it's a blessing, because it makes information available to us. However, you need some discipline if you're not going to be sucked into it and waste your time beyond finding the information you're after. I can say that Internet has made a huge impact on how students work. Of course, a good student will do research from books and journals in addition to the internet, but I can't be grateful enough of how much information is now online. I can sit in my home, log in to my university account, and access trade journals of Marketing and Media journals that would otherwise cost close to £5/$10 an issue. I can even search within these journals for the exact information I'm looking for. So instead of going to a library and manually looking through dozens of journals, I log in on the web, search for my keywords, and there I have it: the information I was looking forward. I can't imagine how hard my student life would be without Internet access.