Critical Thinking in an Online World

The Internet has made almost everything much more simple for everyone. But by making everything so easy to access or find has it hindered our ability to find information on our own? If it has, then it has also affected our ability to think critically about the ideas that are being given to us. Before such ease access to the Internet was available we would have to do it the old fashioned way and go to the library for answers to our questions. We would have to go from book to book and piece the ideas together with our own thinking. Now getting up to go to the library isn't even needed because you can also access that resource via the Internet. And if you don't find your answer there all you have to do is type your question or subject on a search engine and in less then a second you have hundreds of answers right in front of you.
With such easy access to almost everything, I do believe the Internet has made us a more lazy people. Why get up and go somewhere if it can be done online; from research to grocery shop. All types of news and information can be found from all over the world right at our computers but instead of using the Internet to heighten our knowledge, mostly everyone uses it to take the easy way out of their tasks.