Answers are what make the world go round. Everyone likes answers because they give people satisfaction. Fortunately, today we have a whole database of answers. This database is more commonly known as the Internet. Although the Internet is a great research tool, the Internet can have a negative impact on the way we learn and get answers. Thanks to the accessibility and ease of use of the Internet, knowledge and answers are constantly available. You would think that this would make our culture more intelligent, but from a certain point of view, this surplus of knowledge has made our culture less intelligent. This is true because the Internet has given people the ability to acquire knowledge without actually thinking. This horrible byproduct of the Internet has opened the door to many negative aspects. After discussing this topic with Morristown-Beard School professor Christian Rabin, it's clear that overusing the Internet isn't always good for our brains. Searching for knowledge online has become a mindless activity. If one looked at their history on an Internet browser, one would see that thousands of sites would be open; however, it is almost guaranteed that one will not be able to remember precisely why they opened most sites. Carelessly searching online is considered a joke, and it is very easy to have fun online. If someone was on Facebook and clicked on another person's photo and thought it was very funny, they would probably want to know who posted it first. Therefore, they look at who owns the photo. This is a very easy task until the person who liked the photo and the person who posted it are not friends. The person is dying to know who the photo belongs to, so he... middle of paper ...... rewrites and rewrites. This allows students to avoid the most difficult part of learning, which is managing information and drawing their own conclusions. No one needs to make guesses about things because the Internet does it for them. This clearly poses the question: Is the Internet a machine external to humans, or are we all creators of the Internet? We can now understand why the Internet has so many negative effects on the mind. Although the Internet has given us all so much knowledge, the way that knowledge is passed on to us has actually made people less intelligent. We don't see that the Internet can have many effects on him or her unconsciously. Some of these effects are avoidable, but if there is one thing I learned from Rabin in my two years with him as a teacher, it is that it is easy to teach people, but it is is difficult to learn to think..