There is absolutely no doubt that internet has great influence on people's everyday life nowadays. Many are relying on it for making a living (very good livings), some others are using it for studies and looking for important information, which they would otherwise have to spend much longer time if searching for them through books and other means of paper documentries. So, indeed the internet has given modern people huge help and convenience.
As for myself, I think that I am belonging to the latter more, since I don't use the internet to make money. Of course to begin with, I wasn't quite so keen with the ideas, mainly because I wasn't well learnt enough to fully exploit the benefits, which it offers.
Now, I really like it and it has become a very important part of my life. I spend hours and hours of my time sitting in front of my computer screen doing this and that using of the internet. I play games (just like now) with it, finding information with it, shopping with it and even invest with it. I just can't do without it anymore. When I lost the broadband connection a couple of days ago, I was down right panicking and it seemed that I was back to 19th century, really feeling helpless and hopeless!