ARTICLE ENTRY 2 : I SURF, THEREFORE, I AM

In the article entitled, ‘I Surf, Therefore, I am ‘, the writer indicates that surfing on the internet is not beneficial, and it leads children to read fewer books. Moreover, he thinks that reading books and listening to the people who know what they are talking about are much more beneficial than surfing on the internet. I totally disagree with the writer because surfing on the internet enables people to reach more books, more information about a lot of subjects such as social and political issues.

Firstly, people cannot buy all books which they want to read, and they may not have enough time to read all of them. In this case, they can read electronic books, and if there is no time to read the whole book, they can read its summary. Moreover, they can read the ideas of people who read the books and can share their own ideas about the book. In addition to reading books and sharing ideas, especially students can reach a lot of online dictionaries while they are studying. Searching the meanings of the words in different dictionaries provides them with more reliable information. In my opinion, people easily exchange their information by reading people’s ideas and reach more reliable information by reading different books.

Secondly, people can reach lots of information in the internet faster. Today, most people in the world share their ideas especially about political and social issues on social networks like facebook and twitter or on their own blog. Thanks to the social networks and blogs, people can discuss the issues easily and millions of people participate in the discussion. Moreover, internet enables us to read articles in other languages, so people can find out the ideas of the people from different country.

In short, people can reach more books cheaply and more information easily thanks to internet. They also can share their ideas and find out other people’s ideas by reading blogs. In my opinion, reading the blogs to learn people’s ideas about an issue is easier and more useful than finding the people talking about the issue to listen contrary to the writer’s idea.