The Internet and How it is Better than Television

As of late, people are expounding the negativity of the internet so much so that they are missing out on the greatness that it provides.

From the shelter of my home, I have been able to, without the need to sit in front of a television and witness all of its advertisements and annoying animated voices contained within them, research the topics that I write about daily and procrastinate freely. Today I researched about Elliot Rodger and his crimes and by the time the six o'clock news on television popped up, I knew more about the topic than the news reporters. And I confide in that. It boosts my sense of independence and it boosts my level of intellectualism, in that instead of being exposed to one narrow news report, I am able to look at over ten of them, critically analysing them and piecing together pieces of information that are updated and more accurate than a story received at ten in the morning. 

As for my free procrastination, well. Procrastination also contains negative connotations, though it is my daily necessity. I procrastinate to piece things together in my mind, in order to find links between things and to keep myself entertained whilst on top of things. Some people enjoy adventuring through a rainforest, hiking and being exposed to strange animals. I like to surf - surf the internet, expose myself to varied things at fast rates. Whatever I want, whenever I want. And as quickly as I search, I can flick back to the work that I am meant to be doing, and I will also finish that. 

Totally irrelevant to my work but very relevant to my lifestyle away from the computer was my research and stumbling upon a YouTube channel that features creative alcoholic beverages. Soon enough, after watching the creation of different shots and the conglomeration of alcoholic flavourings, I received enough inspiration to piece together fragments of my next, or next next birthday party: a Tetris dress-up costume party with watermelon kegs. Had I not been using the internet, I would have probably cut a cake, taken a few family photographs and sat down with a Corona, staring at a pile of grapes and plums.

What I am trying to say is that the instant availability of multiple ideas stimulates brain activity. We become active curators of the intake of information, rather than the passive intake of a presentation of information - television - so instead of looking through someone's binoculars, we not only create our own but we also look through our own and we share our own with others whilst we look through theirs so as to allow the creation and sharing of multiple perspectives, a much more constructive way of deconstructing things.

If I was to think of one thing that would entice me to watch television apart from a horror movie whilst my cousins are over, it would be SBS. SBS is the equivalent to internet searching, except it provides documentaries that are more in-depth, and not necessarily narrated by Morgan Freeman or David Attenborough.