The Importance of Ethics

It is so simple to be mischievous. With the availability of the Internet, we can communicate with millions of people instantly, and no one will know if we are being dishonest. For example, I recently read a story of a man who bought an Xbox One for his child from eBay. When the package came, all that was in it was a photo of the desired console. How disappointing! Because it is so easy to be dishonest, it is imperative that each of us establish our own personal ethics. When we all follow our set of ethics, we can more reliably depend on others to be honest as well.

Balance in a World Fighting for Attention

In our capitalistic society, businesses fail if they don't get your attention. Before the Internet, it was relatively difficult to gain the population's attention because of the difficulty in reaching a large audience. With the invention of the Internet, a company can literally reach almost the entire world for the price of a reliable server. This is remarkable. Now we have all these different companies and products all fighting for our attention in this dog-eat-dog world. Because of this, it is so easy to get sucked into one of these companies that fight for our attention. We often hear of people spending hours upon hours on social media sites like Facebook, or MMORPGs like World of Warcraft. If we can learn to moderate the time spent on these sites, our lives will be better off.