Advantages and disadvantages of internet

According to the definition of internet derived from http://www.universalteacherpublications.com/univ/free-asgn/2008/cs610/page4.htm, internet is worldcomputer worldwide system of computer networks that allows users to send ad receive info from other computers. Nowadays, most people depend on the internet to get information, to interact with each other and many more. However, we should bear in mind that the use of internet also bring a lot of disadvantages. let me share with all of you about the advantages and disadvantages of the internet.

First of all, by using the internet, we can get a lot of information. I think the capability of internet to provide us with a lot of information is the biggest contribution of internet to our life. Students can get information about the subjects they learnt at school as there are a lot of notes provided pertaining to every subject. As we can see, most educators tend to upload notes in their blog to make it easy for their students to access the notes regardless of time and place. Another students who can access the internet can gain benefit from that. Many websites give benefits to the students such as Scribd, Slideshare and so forth.

Besides that, the internet enables people to communicate with the other people who lived far away from them. there are a lot of application in the internet that give us opportunity to interact with many people all around the world. The famous one is the Facebook. I am quite sure that all of the people know what is Facebook. By using Facebook and other social networking sites via the access of the internet, we can communicate with people easily without thinking about the time limit and physical boundaries. Communicating through facebook becomes a medium to strengthen our relationship with our friends, relatives and our loved one who may live far away from us.

In terms of disadvantages, i think the internet can make us to become addicted. This is because, they are a lot of interesting applications in the internet. When people become addicted to internet, they will forget to do their work, and they may likely tend to neglect their family. Facebook, Myspace, Twitter are everything for them. The teenagers who are addicted to internet will tend to forget their homework as they spend a lot of time to navigate to several websites. In my personal view, addiction is the major disadvantage of the internet. Addiction is a true psychological disorder with definable symptoms. Everyone can be addicted if they cannot control themselves. 

Furthermore, children who are using the internet must be monitored. Most parents do not realize the dangers involved when their children log onto the internet. When children talk to others online, they do not realize that they may actually talk with a harmful person. Children cannot judge people because they are still not matured. Even the adults can be trapped. So, parents be careful with this!

As a conclusion, everything in this world has its own advantages and disadvantages. It depends on us how to use it. If you are a smart person, you may use the internet for the right purposes because you can evaluate what is right and what is wrong. Only the fool one uses the internet for something that does not give benefits to them and to the other people as well. 

internet can be evil...............................................................