Advantages and Disadvantages when it comes to the use of the internet

There are many advantages and disadvantages when it comes to the use of the internet, the advantages can range from the smallest convenience to something more extravagant like other cultures sharing there cures in the medical field. The disadvantages of the internet also range from could be bad to disastrous example being it allows hate groups to spread to other states.   So we should be asking the question what the internet provides for us that no other can. This also raises the question where will we be in 50-100 years.

            The main advantages of having full access to the internet is convenience, having it right there in the palm of your hand 24 hours a day for and circumstance that presents itself an example being GPS if you’re on the bus, train, driving or even walking your GPS can calculate the fast route to get there or it’ll tell you that the route is unavailable due to lack of trains or roads. Another advantage of having access to the internet is pure knowledge everything is on the internet if you need to find what and where the largest building in the world is Google or Yahoo can and will proved the answer, if you want to know who holds the record for the raunchiest thing in the world (use your imagination) the internet search engines out there will provide you with those hard or interesting questions that you seek. In an article Advantages and Disadvantages of the Internet by Ashwini Ambekar wrote how “Chat rooms, video conferencing are some of the latest additions in this technology and these have allowed people to chat in real time irrespective of the location of the parties involved. The intranet allows for people within an organization to easily communicate and share information.” Communication is a strong resource that the internet provides a few examples being Document sharing if there’s a breakthrough in a cure for stupid the information can be shared to the main researcher that is perfecting the cure for stupid which we all know there isn’t an actual cure or maybe you don’t. But with all these wonderful advantages there are just as much or more disadvantages of the internet.

            Now that we have discussed the advantages lets go through some of the disadvantages which could just be the opinion of this guy (thumbs pointed at the writer of this blog). The biggest disadvantage to me would be the accessibility of the internet, for example why do we (I include myself) as humans feel the need to always check our statuses? When I send an email or write on my Facebook I feel the need to always check it to see if anyone has responded or commented, it’s a distraction from what is going on around you. Another disadvantage is Big brother watching, now that almost everyone carries a cell phone or emails to communicate the government feels the need to listen either to your calls or just turn your microphone on and listen to your conversations (all in the prevention of terrorism) Now you may be reading these and saying well if you aren’t doing anything wrong than why should you care? And my answer to you is simple what one man or women feels is a crime another may feel its purely expressing their rights as an American. Ok my last disadvantage is job security, with the internet being so Multi-Oriented its making some jobs obsolete soon there will be no need for retail stores because it’ll be cheaper just to order it from the factory or they’ll be no need for interpreters (thanks to Google)  or travel agents. It’s getting to the point that you really don’t need to leave your house to find or get anything.

            So now that you know my view points on the advantages and disadvantages of the internet and how these may differ from the opinions of another. Just realize that the expansion of technology will continue to expand do to the internet being so connected worldwide leaving most things that could befit us as humans obsolete.


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