Wikipedia and hooked on technology

I really don't like wikipedia. I guess it is a good easy information website, but it bugs me when people want to use it for research papers. My brother, who is a sophomore in high school, had to do a speech on David Bowie last week. He kept telling me it was no big deal he'll just look up information on Wikipedia because the teacher did not require citing sources. I told him it shouldn't even matter that it is not a big research paper, you should not even get used to just going to wikipedia. I showed him 4 books at the library and the biographic database on inspire. Anything he needs to look up online, he automatically goes to wikipedia. I don't know if this is normal for teens his age and if schools tell students not to use it but I hate that he wants to use it at all for any project relating to school.

I don't consider myself a big technology and computer person and don't consider myself addicted to it at all-that is until I lost my internet. A few weeks ago my internet went out. I thought it was because of a bad wind storm we had. But a few days later internet still did not work. A call to ATT and an hour on the phone, I found out I had a defective modem. I went a week without the internet, only checking my email two of those days at work. I hated that I could not look up the pointless websites I do everyday or even not being able to email.

The internet makes things so much easier, when I didn't have it my boyfriend and me were trying to figure out the name of the actor in a movie. Usually all I would have to do is go on Imdb.com and look it up, few minutes top. Since I didn't have the internet, it took us forever to think of the name I had to pull out the movie (vhs even so I could not even skip chapters!!) and we fast forwarded it to the part where he was in to see who he was.