While all of the benefits listed sound almost too good to be true, I really don’t know if I am a believer yet. Maybe we all chose ‘yes’ without thinking. Maybe all these words aren’t nearly as important as we think they are. I mean, sure, I bought into blogs - even started my own - thinking I was learning away. But isn’t it just a slippery slope of deception? Don’t we learn what we want to learn anyway? It isn’t that I have lost any faith but that I have debated where my time should be best invested. I’m not even talking about the distractions here. If a person can’t self manage being distracted in this day and age, then there are other, more pressing issues to work on besides being ready for the internet. It is honestly the responses to stories like this that give me cause to reflect on the intelligence of the internet. Ignorant responses that are reactive and geared to trigger emotional flare-ups are really the norm in many blogs.

I enjoy the online tools that I use, being able to share photos with family and the ability to do many tasks now on my phone. But I have divested from the Internet a great deal this past year. My professional learning is the same, if not better. My personal life is more real world and focused on the people in my life. With all the hype, hyper self promotion and extreme micro electronic tribalism, I just may not be ready for the Internet. It may just be over rated.