Internet is the new 'NEWSPAPER'

Let’s rewind to the time where getting to know current events meant searching for a newspaper or listening to the radio. How rarely was it that we could know what’s happening in the same city, let alone the rest of the world. Although now news on television or newspapers has improved awareness highly, it may well be said that most of the current percentage of the youth and working class now rely on the Internet for current updates of news. Internet helps provide us with a platform to easily send a message out to the world!

                                                      

Well let’s not just talk about the current news industry moving to the Internet, having the current affairs posted on online websites, instant news mobile applications or as highlights on other promotional sites. Let’s talk of how internet truly provides us our most basic right, ‘the right of speech’. You don’t often see a victim raising his/her voice on television or newspapers. Most often only those lucky minorities who has a reach to the world can reach the headlines of the news. Then how does everyone else get a platform to raise their inner voices and be heard! Social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter or blogs and a varied number of self expression sites have helped many people to be heard by not just a small crowd but by the world. In recent times how often have you come across people expressing their emotions, abuse, oppression or maybe just advice. How enlightening it would be for them to let out those words that choked them from within. How inspiring it would have been for those reading those messages or watching those videos. How Internet gives those are few rare people who have the spark in them to change the world but no platform to start. Just how liberating it must feel to be able to spread the word and in a way someone out there may find just what they needed to hear.

By far this is one of the most important and beautiful thing that the Internet has helped us achieve. There certainly always will be a bad side to everything, but then sometimes its worth it isn’t it? There can never be anything more important than inner peace. There can be a nature lover or animal lover who just want to tell people to be more empathetic and humble. There maybe someone who knows how bad injustice is and just wants the world to know that what being kind is truly is. Internet has made this possible.