Flood of information online and the current Internet

Published 11 October 2020, Updated 27 December 2020

After the emergence of the Internet, some people hoped that the Internet would work well for democracy. Actually it has enormous positive impacts on our life.

However, as most people noticed, the negative influences it has cannot be ignored.

On daily basis, a lot of posts come up online, it causes flood of information that confuses online citizens. Even when saying online citizens, since a large part of people is using the Internet, its influence is immense.

Selection of information as time passes are now transformed into the way that information uttered by people online remains even if time passed and people in the future can find them by searching the topics.

Movement launched on social media often take  place in beginning with hashtag isn’t what can last so long. 

The objective of posting contents online has changed to get attention or number of followers for most people.

Focusing too much on the present. We should think of the past or more broadly the history of humankind.