Pros And Negatives Of The Internet

The Internet Age has become a time in which computer technology has not been envisioned as a luxury, but rather a necessity in many parts of daily living. And as the positive impacts of technology use in the workplace, and education setting, becomes a reality then so does the negative consequences. However, the ability to deal with the negative consequences may be more difficult to deal with for adolescents and young adults who heavily use technology for social media, text messaging, and web surfing. As these impressionable sectors of society learn to navigate their place in the world with the aid of technology, they are experiencing an inordinate amount of

In recent years, advances in technology have exploded. Almost every child has a tablet, middle schools are giving students laptops, and nearly every adult on the planet can be seen walking around with a smartphone. The internet is a huge part of today’s society. Information from all over the globe is just a few clicks away, but could that be a bad thing? Nicholas Carr thinks that the internet is making society stupid in his article “Is Google Making Us Stupid,” Steven Johnson says that the internet is a great thing in his essay “Everything Bad is Good for Us,” and Christine Rosen seems to think that everything digital is evil in her work “People on the Screen.” When used correctly, the internet has an overwhelmingly positive effect on the growth of the human brain. Technology provides people with more opportunities to read, a way for children to be stimulated, and simpler communication.

“...between 2005 and 2012, 35% of the couples marrying in the US had met online” (González). The internet is used in many ways such as, communicating, posting status updates, and discovering new information. People most commonly argue the internet to be the source of loneliness and depression, whereas others say that it generates more relationships and friends. Electronic devices, such as mobile phones and laptops are utilized in everyday life, whether it be for work, school, personal matters, and in many other ways. It helps promote interactivity and involvement in a community, where you are not alone. It also permits transparent discussions, between friends, family, and others, that are beneficial in everyday life worldwide. Technology does not make us more alone as it gives people the opportunity to meet new people, supplements communications, and aids those who are already lonely.

Technology and the advancements that come with it have had an enormous influence on American society. The internet, being amongst the greatest technological changes in this country. Establishment of the internet has created a brand-new set of issues, among them, being the introduction of cyberbullying. The internet can have both positive and negative consequences on society. “Positive effects of the internet include: It is easier to do research; communication with family, friends, and relatives is faster; there is a great possibility to earn money while working from home; faster business transactions and cheaper products; along with savings on travel cost.” On the other-hand “negative effects of the internet include: Children, young adults, and even adults become addicted to online games; pornography is rampant; loss of the human touch; criminal elements use the information to advance their malicious intents; cyberbullying; as well as the abandonment of family.”

Like there is many ways a person can cyber bullying someone, there is also many ways you can prevent cyber-bullying. Parents have a huge role for keeping cyber-bullying from happening. Most kids don’t tell a trusted adult that they are being cyber-bullied. They are afraid that their parent might block their access to the internet. Other believe that involving an adult can lead to a bad situation. To keep that from happening, the first step a parent should take is educating their children about cyber-bullying. Also parent can encourage their kids to talk to a trustful adult if they are been bullied or if the know someone who is. They can also remind them to never share their person information online. Just like parents can prevent from cyber-bullying from happening teenagers can also prevented it. Before the first step teenagers “must understand exactly what it is(STOP).” The first step is protecting their password. Teens must avoid telling someone their password or leave passwords where other can see. The second step is to “logout of online accounts (STOP).” Teens should never save their passwords. In social networking website such as Twitter or Facebook teens should “set up privacy control (STOP).” Teens can have all this precaution online but sometimes still not enough. There is no reason to be silence if you know that someone is being

This has been a growing concern for some time and the best way to combat bullying, thus cyberbullying is realizing that there is a shared responsibility. Furthermore, providing parents with not only the statistics, but defining specifically what online bullying actually is will help them understand the dangers of online bullying. Moreover, setting time limits for online activity, using universal passwords only and ensuring all computer use is out in the open will allow parents to more easily monitor online use. Additionally, parents can set up security parameters on all multimedia accounts so that communications, such as text messages can be monitored. While this may seem excessive, especially to the adolescent, cyberbullying is real and the best way to combat it is to prevent

Lately, our society has become attached to technology. To a point where it is a necessity. The best word to describe this necessity is addiction. Being addicted to something that is private, can very easily turn to the hands of the public. Being addicted to the internet and social media, leaves you at threat to be getting your information out and the open. In the past decade, we have seen an incredible breakthrough in technology. The cell phones have become smarter. The televisions have gotten larger. The internet has gotten faster. This country has come a long way since the wheel. But, some people don’t know the risk that they take when they are on the internet.

Before there was technology, we had to be taught by books and this limited our choices. Now with the power of technology we can expand our knowledge by using the World Wide Web. The technology has changed us so much, there is both pros and cons when there is a discussion about the internet. We can learn so much of what we can read on the internet. Which is great news considering most of us are using the internet.

The internet has been put in the spotlight many times. Psychologists claim it is a bad influence on future generations. It has been proven that the internet has caused a “200% increase in suicide rates in kids 10-14 years old” (qtd. in Mansfield). We could try and medicate to stop those suicides from happening when they start occurring, but that would be just treating the symptom and not the root of the problem. The main problem is the internet and the effects it has on people. Kids who use the internet frequently are being deprived of “emotionally available parental guidance, responsibilities, balanced nutrition and adequate sleep, movement and the outdoors, creative play, social interactions, and opportunities for unstructured time and

Is the internet benefiting our teens and children or is it harming them? If it is benefiting them; in which particular ways. If it isn’t benefiting them, what is hurting teens? The internet can benefit or ruin you if you get addicted; it depends on the person and his uses. The internet has come to the point where it can make many things that you couldn’t have done before become possible, and make life easier. The Internet can make you fall into temptation as well, with all of its amazing features. The Internet can cause depression and the feeling of being left out of the real world, if you can’t get online. The Media and the Internet can really help a child in his academic skills and social skills outside of school as well if used correctly. In todays time our children are being addictive to the new technology and are surfing webs spending a lot of useful time using other peoples creation of technology, they are not being creative and it isn’t benefiting them at all. Should parents limit the internet or not; choices like these will impact a teen’s life and should be researched before a decision is made. The Internet can benefit our youth and our future in a magnificent measure, but there should be a limit so it can affect our youth in a healthy way and not in a negative way.

My Grandparents generation, parents’ generation and my generation, have many things in common. The use of the internet is one shared commonality, yet there are distinct differences depending which generation is using the internet. For as long as I can remember computers and the internet have been apart of my life. It is hard to recall a memory from my childhood that doesn’t involve technology in one way or another. At my elementary school, we used the internet as a tool to help us succeed in our studies, we had a computer class starting in kindergarten all the way up to eighth grade. Using the internet helped me learn the states and capitols, spelling words and many other things. The importance of technology, especially the internet has become so extreme that I catch myself using it without even

The world wide web, otherwise called the internet, came about in the 1960s and was primarily used for researchers and academia. But since the 1990s, the internet has had that revolutionary effect on the culture and commerce in our society. This includes communication by email, instant messaging, and internet phone calls. In addition, there is also the world wide web with discussion forums, social networking sites, and online shopping sites, which people, despite their generational differences, utilize to their own benefit. However, these are the icing on the internet cake. Now, the internet, since its its inception remains one of the world's most revolutionary piece of technology. Despite its positives, there are many negatives and the destruction has done more harm than good to the children in society. The internet is a serious topic, where the detriments are commonly overlooked. I personally have been intrigued with the internet for as long as I can remember. From personal uses over the years and through my own research, I can attest its negative influences on me, as well as on society. The internet fosters detrimental effects on the youth by reducing their face to face social skills, spawning poor motor habits, and weakens language skills.

The Internet has only been around for 25 years. In that time period, it has become one of the most popular form of technology. You can use the Internet for almost anything. You can find answers to your questions, look for pictures, play games, keep in contact with friends and family and so much more. No wonder it has become so popular, everything is at the touch of a finger. You can also connect other devices to the internet to make them more desirable- such as your cell phone, video game system, computers, tv’s etc. With so many positives, could there even be any negative things that the internet brings?

The effects of the internet on me and this society have been rapidly changing. Did you know that approximately 3.2 billion people use the internet, about 200 billion emails and 3 million google searches would have to wait if the internet was turned off for one day. Let me tell you about something that happened when i was little, it might be off topic a little but when i was little i was born backwards, meaning i came out legs first. My hips were out of place and until i was about 2. My dad is always on the internet and loved taking pictures of his “Little princess”, the pictures can still be found on facebook along with a lot of other things from my family memories. That was when i started wanting to get on the internet, i asked for a facebook and they said no, being a rebel i made one anyways just to play the games on it. The internet can have positive and negative things about it for younger and older people, for example the internet engines are one of the best information givers out there, they bring almost everything and anything to a lot of internet users that lange from all over the world. The internet can provide ways to communicate with family and friends from a long distance, and even meet new people. Bad things about it is people sharing and storing illegal information on the internet, much like the dark web. The addiction to the internet and the online network can be disturbing a person's way of living and professional activity.

“ With great power, comes great responsibility” as famously said by Uncle Ben from Spiderman -Nowadays people have smartphones and personal devices that allow for us powerful functionality tools like alarms, calendars, calculators, and access to Google. We, as a modern tech savy society, must be aware and wise when using technology and the internet since danger is everywhere. As a result society has become overly dependant using technology with their daily lives, so much that it affects children, can lead to online dangers, and creates an unnecessary obsession among users.