Below is the script of my speech that may be given tomorrow. The topic is "Me and the Internet", and I will mainly talk about my experience here.
Today I’m going to show you my relationship with the internet through my experience on a website that I visit the most, the Kids Baking Championship Wiki, or the KBC Wiki for short.
As you can see from the name, the website is about an American TV show called Kids Baking Championship, which features kids competing their baking skills. The website was founded in January 2024 by two American girls who are fans of the show.
So how did I get interested this website? Well, I was browsing the Internet one day in January, when I found a post made by the creators of the website. In the post, I learned that they need some people to help them develop the website. Although I wasn’t interested in the TV show at that time, I started helping them by doing minor things like correcting grammar mistakes, and I learned a lot about the show. Gradually, I became more and more interested in the website and the show.
Normally, I improve the quality of the pages on the website by making them look more organized, adding links and pictures, correcting mistakes and stuff. Sometimes, I also create new pages or undo vandalism. As a member of the community, I sometimes make suggestions to make the website better. I edited pages on the website every single day since this February. This means I have a streak of more than 200 days. I have edited pages on the website for 5,675 times, which is over half of the number of all edits on the website. The creators of the website think highly of me because of my contribution to the website, and they made me a content moderator, which is like a person who takes care of the content pages on the wiki.
Well, you can see that though helping out on the website, I learned lots of things that I didn’t know before, and got to know more people. I improved my skill of communication with other people in English since most of the people in the community are from America. I also learned to be responsible and to keep going on when there’s difficulties. However, my activity on the website caused some problems. For example, I often spend too much time on the website, and sometimes I have to stay up until 1 o’clock.
From the example I told you before, it is clear what my relation with the Internet is like. On the one hand, the Internet brings me a lot of good things. I can make new friends and develop new interests by visiting websites. The Internet also gives me a chance to relax and enjoy when I’m living a busy life. It makes learning many things possible for me, including interesting facts I didn’t know and important skills which I haven’t got yet. On the other hand, the Internet can sometimes affect my life negatively. Spending too much time on the Internet has made my eyesight worse than before, and has also reduced the time I sleep nearly every day.