In the first article, I agree with the writers idea that there is a sense of protectionism that in particular parents (who did not grow up using social media and the internet) have over their children when online. To them, the connectedness of the world may seem scary or daunting, whereas to their children, it prepares them to face an increasingly globalised world in which their grasp of the internet is vital (thus the offering of a new programming class). In the second article, the writer believes that Twitter is on the way out. I don’t agree with this, as Twitter is still the platform of choice for politicians, celebrities etc to make statements and break news. In fact, big news stories are often broken on Twitter first. But I do think that they will have to adapt in order to compete with Facebook, by introducing live streaming for example.

I don’t believe the internet has changed everything. As seen in the first article, the students still wanted to live locally and take up agricultural jobs despite the presence of the internet.

My ideas about the way in which the internet aims to innovate have changed, as the mention of online Virtual Reality in the third article is something I had not considered.

I believe that the perspective missing from this topic is the possible negative impact of the internet. Despite being closed off from the world in Napoleon, the writer did not mention any particular stress, whereas young people nowadays feel under a lot of pressure to compete with people all over the world on social media. Facts have become more ‘throw away’, people are believing tweets and Facebook posts rather than information published in books or newspapers. The use of the internet by terrorist groups to recruit and spread propaganda is also something to consider.