Advantages and disantvantages of internet
- 1. ADVANTAGES AND DISANTVANTAGES OF INTERNET Now a days Internet is probably one of the greatest inventions of the century. Before we have to go to the library to do our research work but now, all we have to do is go to Google and do our research. We can do many things with the internet; we can shop from eBay, chat with your friends in Facebook or Skype, watch videos in YouTube, earn money from blogging, and many more. Internet is really useful and has a lot of advantages, but there are also some disadvantages of using it. The advantages of internet are the following. First, the biggest benefit offered by the Internet is information. It functions as a valuable resource of information. You can find any type of information on any subject with the help of the search engines like Yahoo and Google. Secondly, the primary goal of the Internet is communication. It has done extremely well in this field, however the development process is still going on to make it more dependable and quick. By sending an e-mail, we can contact a person who is physically present thousand miles away within the fraction of a second’s time. Thirdly, internet functions as a popular medium of entertainment. A wide variety of entertainment including video games, music, movies, chat room, news and others can be accessed through the Internet. Fourthly, a variety of services are offered via Internet, for example job searching, online banking, buying movie tickets, hotel reservations and consultation services etc. When you avail these services offline, they become more expensive. On the other hand the disantvantages of internet are the following. First, spamming denotes distribution of unsolicited e-mails in large numbers. They are meaningless and they unnecessarily block the whole system. These activities are treated as illegal. Secondly, while using the Internet, there is high probability that your personal details like name, address and credit card number may be accessed by con artists and used for fraudulent purposes. Thirdly, pornography is definitely harmful for your children. There are numerous pornographic sites available over the Internet and watching any of those can have very bad influence on the mental health of your children. Fourthly, is virus threat, Virus is a program that interrupts the usual operation of your personal computer system. PCs linked to the Internet have high probability of virus attacks and as a result of this your hard disk can crash, giving you a lot of trouble. Despite of a few major problems the Advantages of the Internet use clearly outweigh the few disadvantages.