Have you ever imaged what will happen if the world lacks of Internet and technologies? It would be a nightmare for me and for most of people in the world. Social media has changed rapidly and has many benefits that improve and play an important role in our lives. However, everything has both good and bad sides, and social media is the same. Depending on how much we take in or how we control it, social media will become useful or harmful. In Steven Pinker's essay "Mind over Mass Media," the author argues about the effects of technologies on mental development that we are not becoming stupid because of the social media. Pinker believes that technology is very useful, and it keeps people smart. To prove his argument, he brings up several points to look at when considering how mass media plays a role in our society. "New forms of media have always caused moral panics: the printing press, newspapers, paperbacks, and television were all once denounced as threats to their consumers' brainpower and moral fiber." Pinker starts out by telling how people have been worried about the new forms of media threatening their brainpower and skills. He argues that it has never happened. Moreover, according to Pinker, the media is not reducing our intellects, but it makes people smarter. The author gives some good examples to support his idea about the benefits of media such as, "These days scientists are never far from their e-mail, rarely touch paper, and cannot lecture without PowerPoint. If electronic media were hazardous to intelligence, the quality of science would be plummeting" (Pinker 560), or, "Fortunately, the Internet and information technologies are helping us manage, search, and retrieve our collective intellectual output at different scale, from Twitter and previews to e-books and online encyclopedias" (Pinker 561). From these cites, Pinker would like to let us know that even though the scientists use their e-mails, computers, and other types of media every day, they still invent, or make many new discoveries or inventions, which are better than before, because they know how to use social media effectively. By these examples, the author states along with all the technologies out there, that intelligence is increasing at higher levels. Furthermore, Pinker claims that "the solution is not to bemoan technology but to develop strategies of self-control, as we do with every other temptation in life. Turn off e-mail or Twitter when you work, put away your Blackberry at dinner time, ask your spouse to call you to bed at a designated h