How often do you find yourself looking for directions on the Internet? How easy has the ability to find answers to questions become? How hard is it to pass up the opportunity to control your Internet network? Why has the Internet become a part of our daily, hourly lives? With the capabilities of the Internet and what can be done on the Internet, questions about the future of the Internet's effects on its users continue to grow rapidly. The use of computer technology in the classroom is becoming a major concern for parents and educators around the world. How long should children be allowed to surf the Internet? Is the Internet influencing children, the future of society, the ability to concentrate? Should parents and educators trust the websites where students get their information? While the Internet has done an absolutely fabulous job of making what may have seemed impossible possible, with live video chats, music streaming, and online books, the Internet certainly presents problems with responsible reading and intellectual engagement in students. The Internet moves at very fast speeds and can access a huge amount of information in less than a few seconds with just a few letters typed and the click of a button. Search engines such as Google, Bing, Yahoo! and Ask have gained the ability to provide a person searching for virtually any answer with what seems like an infinite amount of links leading to what that individual might be asking about. Then there are websites including GoogleMaps and Mapquest that help you find a destination and/or the direction to that destination in a “cake game.” Such websites are undoubtedly useful in providing the driver with step-by-step guidance on where he can ...... middle of paper ...... air”. Education Digest 67-1 (2001): 46-49. Elite academic research. Network. March 13, 2012. Passionate, Andrew. “The cult of the amateur”. Perspectives on argumentation. Ed. Nancy V. Wood. Boston. Pearson, 2012. 503-504. Print.Kirshenbaum, Matthew. “How to reinvent reading”. Perspectives on argumentation. Ed. Nancy V. Wood. Boston. Pearson, 2012. 508-510. Press.O'Look, Steve. "The Internet can increase learning." Has technology increased learning? Ed.Roman Espejo. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2009. In question. Rpt. from "E-learning 2.0: How Web Technologies are Shaping Education." www.readwriteweb.com/archives/e-learning_20.php. 2006. Gale Opposing Views in Context. Network. March 19, 2012.Pozzi, Melissa. “Internet Problems Coming to the Attention of School Social Workers.” Children & Schools 28.4 (2006): 237-242. Elite academic research. Network. March 13 2012.