How has the modern internet changed you?

[sdp]

The internet community has changed, and not for the better. We now have the knowledge of the world in our hands, the problem is most people didn't earn that right.

It might be elitist but its the truth, as the internet became more widely used it also deteriorated in a sense. Sure people were using the internet more and more as time went on but with the advent of both Facebook and smartphones opened the flood gates to everyone.

What we got was everyone wanting to use this tool without "earning" the understanding of what the internet community was all about and using it to progress their own agendas whether its political or something as vane as attention. Did this not exist before? Of course but there was more of a balance.

This "power" isn't respected and instead of people wanting to learn more about what is going on the latest generation of "cybernauts" find a nice bubble and live in their echo chamber happily agreeing with each other and conflict obviously happens when bubbles collide.

That's not to say the "old" internet has died, it has just moved to other places, but its sad since it should've been the other way around.