Absolute Knowledge Corrupts Absolutely!

So here is my first official post:

What do you feel is the biggest positive change the prevalence and dominance of the internet has brought to culture or everyday life? 

In my digital literacy autobiography, I claimed that the ability to exceed the knowledge of our predecessors was the most positive effect of technological advances with computers and the internet. That is to say, people can learn new skills and information faster and more efficiently online, or spend their time posting pictures of their cats, but the potential to self improve exists. The internet also allows that information to be accessible between various members of an organization or company. In the field of medicine, being able to have quick access to information is potentially life-saving. The internet has also allowed for a better and more complete collection of records.  The internet also preserves pictures and important family artifacts better over time, than having a physical copy does.

Contrarily, what do you feel is the biggest new cultural/social problem that has come with the internet? 

Just as in the days before the internet, people will often use positive things for negative purposes. To be more specific, the far-reaching grasp of the internet's access to information gives people with negative intentions the opportunity to invade the privacy of others and use that information to slander or extort others. In addition, the anonymity afforded to people on the internet has created a sphere of communication where people can express their worst thoughts toward someone else.