Nobody is going to argue that the Internet hasn't revolutionized travel for the better. Cry
about pricey international data plans all you want, but no traveler would trade Google Maps for asking a random person on the streets of Bratislava for directions to a hotel they booked sight unseen from a guide book after spending an hour on the phone with an airline representative asking, "Wait, so did you say there was a 10am flight on Saturday or Sunday morning?" before blindly accepting the quoted ticket price as what they actually have to pay.
Multi-airline rate comparisons? Flexible date pricing? Third party discount sites? HAHAHA!!!! (Awwwww... *pats millennial heads.*) Those were some dark, dark days, kids. No one wants to go back to that.
Even so, for all of the ways in which they have improved our travel lives, the Internet and social media have come to define, control, and consume us. And it has ruined many things in our hyper-tech-enabled lives, including the actual experience of experiences. This is how. https://www.thrillist.com/travel/nation/how-the-internet-and-social-media-ruined-travel/tech
