Saturday, February 2, 2008
Has the Internet done more harm than good?
First of all, Internet is something that nearly everyone in the world needs. It is a necessity to almost everyone in the world. information on the Net is so easily accessible that one can just type what one needs to search for, and information appears like rabbits. Internet was started by a place called CERN, who proposed the idea to create the World Wide Web. It was invented by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989. However, i agree that the Internet has certainly done more harm than good, but to a limited extent.Nowadays, nearly everything requires the uses of computer, and most people in the world who owns a computer, has access to the Internet, regardless of the speed or the networking speed that they subscribe to. Sometimes, students in school is assigned a project on something which may be sound a little hard to them, but the Internet has lots of info on that subject. All they have to do is search it on Yahoo, and they get the answers rolling out like recipes for baking cookies.
For adults, practically everyone who works in an industrialized area has to sit behind a computer to do their work. Adults need to communicate with each other, which is where email comes in. Email is the big turn-around for the world since its creation. It is the fastest way to contact each other around the world. It is not dissimilar to writing a mail to your friend. The difference is that you need your friends email address and Internet access. Email accounts can be created easily anywhere on the Web. Hotmail, G-mail and Yahoo are a few common hosts who allows you to create your email for free of charge.
Even now, email is very outdated. Now, there is something called an Internet-Relay chat, whereby two people communicate with each other through a program. Windows Live Messenger allows people to chat with each other. The downside is, both parties must be online for them to chat. It is direct communication as well. What is safe, is that you won't have people you don't recognize to chat with you. Only those whom you know will chat with you, as only them has your email. However, there are some trouble-makers who cropped up problems around the world. Only recently, there were a group of hackers who disrupted the Internet, causing world-wide problems. Many companies and schools were affected by the hackers.
I still agree that the internet has done more harm than good. The Internet has both good and bad uses, and one should not discriminate it just because of a few uses, and one should not avoid it because of certain sites that disgust people. As long as you search at the correct area, you will find information that is relevant to your subject.