Reply To: Internet Post (NOT Asifa Post, 95)

DY: I SAID in my original post that I don’t see the point of social networking. However, comparing it to drugs is ridiculous, because the internet has uses which can be very helpful and relevant, as opposed to drugs, which are pretty much entirely damaging (I will not get into medical marijuana or anything like that now, obviously). I know that my mom has Facebook for her job. I know people who run businesses either entirely off Facebook or with Facebook pages which can really help business. Set aside Facebook, and there are even more benefits to the internet which I will not go into, as they have been enumerated in other threads. Comparing internet to drugs, which are dangerous, illegal, and just plain stupid, is not very apt.

We don’t know the way the world is going, and while we hope that Moshiach will be here sooner, the internet will probably achieve greater and greater prominence in our lives, in which case children (and adults) should be educated in using it, even if it is banned afterwards, if only so that later on they are not starting, totally naive, from square one.