Being a member of the online community is like being one individual out of millions across the world. Being able to even have one moment of fame in a community so vast requires a great amount of creativity or an equal amount of stupidity.
So the question is: does the internet foster creativity or reward stupidity?
The answer to this question depends on what end of the spectrum you are on. If you spend the majority of your time getting all your intel from websites such as Wikipedia , Facebook, or Twitter the internet is probably hindering your ability to think for yourself. If, however, you are a top participant on websites such as Digg, YouTube, or have your own blog to use as a platform for your creativity, the internet is in fact fostering your creativity by forcing you to compete with millions of other users to vie for the attention of the online community.
The thing is, the masses are not the individuals out there allowing the internet to morph them into creative geniuses. The internet has made it even easier for the masses to become bottom feeders which hinders their ability to think for themselves. That is not to say, however, that the internet should be considered a negative development in society. The internet simply (when overused) has the ability to make us too reliant on others for intel rather than trying to find out for ourselves.
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