Free Fahrenheit 451 Essays: The Internet And Its Effects On Society

The Internet and its Effects on Society When spectators look at society today, they see today’s youth, absorbed in their phones, laptops, and tablets. They see almost everyone getting more and more used to the idea of violence in society. And they see adults, searching for happiness. Ray Bradbury, who wrote the novel Fahrenheit 451 almost sixty years ago, was able to predict these happenings. But the one big prediction was the Internet. In Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury describes information everywhere; from walls to little earbuds he named Seashells. Most people in the novel blindly obeyed what they were told and believed all the information they were given. Today, some are seeing these same patterns in this world. Its main cause is the Internet. …show more content…
They could be listening to music on Youtube, scrolling through Facebook, posting photos on Snapchat, or even using Google to look up something new. Every minute, thousands of bits of information are being processed around the globe; after all, there are 2 million Google searches every sixty seconds. People in today’s society, also nicknamed Generation Z, turn to the Internet to get the answers to their questions. These kids are the sons and daughters of those who went to the library or an encyclopedia to get their information, but with the invention of the World Wide Web in 1989, people are able to get answers instantaneously instead of spending hours poring over encyclopedias or getting lost in the labyrinth of a library to find their data. When doing homework, students mindlessly copy their answer off the World Wide Web instead of searching for it, reading it and processing it as needs to be done to learn. At the same time there is too much useless information to see, like each of the forty-one thousand posts that are posted every second on Facebook. Kids today are absorbed in the Internet, not wanting to be torn from their precious connection, and therefore, don’t have enough time to process what they see or read. Bradbury predicts exactly this in Fahrenheit 451, when Faber explains the three things needed in life, “Number one, as I said, quality of information. Number two: …show more content…
They have an ability to be who they want to be and to place a façade over who they really are. Throughout the years, there has also been an increase in hedonism, the doctrine that happiness is the highest good. Today’s teenagers and young adults have taken on the ideal “If it feels good, do it.” Statistics show that there is an increase in the usage of drugs and alcohol at a younger age as well. But, because of this rise in hedonism, less are thinking about their futures and even what might happen to their bodies if they continue to believe and act upon this. Today’s society receives joy and pleasure over a picture getting liked, reblogged or shared with others. This leads them to do more and more outrageous things for the sole reason of getting liked on the Internet. But, the life that today’s peoples have created for themselves on the Internet is just the good side of themselves, and the happiness that they receive from getting those likes is fake; if they are not their true selves on the Internet, then the happiness they receive cannot be true happiness. For example, in the novel Fahrenheit 451, Mildred has taken the façade that she would have used over the Internet and applied it to her everyday life, therefore she is never her true self and always shows her perfect side to others, no matter what. This is shown after she tries to overdose on sleeping