The Internet : Man 's Greatest Double Edge Sword

Some internet sites like YouTube and personalized website can be used to force people into violence by hurting them emotionally. Internet is not just able to promote violence all around the world; it is also successful in ruining the society in the name of useful social networking. Wright’s statement about social network like Facebook on the internet is another big issue of the present moment. Very popular among people all around the world, this social network is taking away everyone’s productive time. Particularly, students are much affected by this network. In this way, the unproductive population pushes one’s nation in a situation where there will be a lack of enough manpower for keeping the ongoing economic activities up. Likewise, being with Facebook all the time has also made the people less socialized because they do not get enough time to talk to their real friends and relatives. They rather give more time to fake friends from the social network in the internet. So, internet has adversely affected the real socialization too. Moreover, people have an easy excess to dirty pictures and videos in the internet which people share with each other and sometimes it brings a problem because they share it to a wrong person. Such pictures and videos have an adverse impact especially on children as they learn bad things from such sites and can possibly spoil themselves. Not just children, these sites have

If you were to look around a room of young adults or teens today, you would likely notice an eerie silence. A silence accompanied with most of these individuals staring down at their cellphones, the sound of conversation is exchanged for the sound of clicking keys. It’s no secret; this generation relies on their phones and the internet much like food and water. It’s a necessity. With the new wave of social media, which is being used by an alarming 78% of U.S. citizens, the internet is now a tool used by anyone and everyone (Statistics and Market Data on Cyber Crime). We are in the midst of an Internet evolution, with the internet expanding its boundaries and roles in our everyday lives. You can do anything from

Bill Keller in “The twitter trap” published in The New york Times (18 May 2011) notes that he felt as though he had poisoned his daughter by allowing her onto Facebook. He equates it to giving a drug and sees it as eroding a youth’s intellect or skills development memory skills, math skills, penmanship, innate sense of direction, attention span, problem solving and decision making abilities. Given his daily job, he is well aware of the global appreciation for the internet. However, what are the costs, the personal costs? Recently, the advancement of technology has started to accumulate some controversy.

Throughout history, no single piece of technology has been so heavily relied upon such as the internet. Things such as the first car, the first telephone, and even the first airplanes were not as easily, or readily accessible as the Net is today. In all reality, the internet is the greatest and most useful tool that humanity has ever dreamt up. From instant transferring of data to endless sources of information, the Net not only connects all corners of the world, but makes each and every person more knowledgeable and self-aware. But as with all new and virtuous things, there is a darker and more dangerous side. The internet is a tool that consumes the intellectual, changing the way the brain functions and ultimately creating a reliance. This reliance is so severe that all of life’s functions depend on the internet without the same dependency being reciprocated. The relationship is one sided, where the Net has much to gain while the user has little. Furthermore, in its relatively new state, the internet is very obscure and has very questionable ethics. Although beneficial in specific cases, the internet affects one’s emotional state and latently mars cognitive function while creating a devastatingly powerful and coercive reliance.

In our generation a like without Internet is pretty unthinkable. We look at the way it makes things so much easier and helps us stay in contact with friends and relatives via email and/or social media. Robert McChensey noticed how the Internet has caused a lot of changes in America in many different aspects Users and creators of the internet predicted that it would cause the world to be more prosperous , a more equal society, and a significant amount of scientific discovery. Internet supporters and skeptics agreed and opposed this idea. McChesney writes that people do not have a clear understanding of how capitalism relates to the internet and the political economic contex of the internet

I chose to write about the topics discussed in this book because I feel like it involves everybody on a global aspect. Every single day the majority of people are faced with using the Internet at some point whether it is for work purposes, social activities, your common tweets, Instagram posts, or statuses on Facebook pages. The Internet seems to be a type of network that we cannot get away from because of how heavily it is used.

Carr’s factual diction demonstrates his conviction that the internet is causing people to become shallow individuals by saying that it causes a “slow erosion of our humanness and our humanity” and that it “poses a threat to our integrity as human beings.” The first half of his book covers topics about biology and technology, and how those two relates to each other. Then in the second half, he transitions into a detailed explanation about how the internet is actually harmful to us. After reading his thoughts about it, it is clear that the internet is in fact damaging to people.

The Internet has ruined our social, physical and mental health more than one way, and it is only getting worst unless we put a stop to it.

The internet can be your best friend or your worst enemy. Imagine your every move was caught on camera for the world to see, your every fault documented and aired for everyone, that secret you told your best friend publicized on the evening news, or that intimate moment with your lover broadcast live. Newsweek writer, Jessica Bennett, wrote an article titled “The Flip Side of Internet Fame.” She argues how the internet can easily become one’s real life nightmare when the wrong person logs into the world wide web. Be careful what you put on the internet, as it may come back to haunt you.

With broad information outputs, the internet has widely shaped the world we live in today. From being a source that can aid one with education such as homework or a tool to be tutored online, to helping one do last minute online holiday shopping if one procrastinated and is now in a rush to find gifts for one’s family. Therefore, the question ponders when does one draw the line on the magnificently powerful tool we call “the internet” as it stops aiding one and starts becoming harmful to one’s mental and physical state. This can be illustrated through theoretical scenarios such as one can begin to commit self-harm to oneself trying to achieve what is seen online. Advertisements all the way to friends on social media all have an influence on

The ‘Internet’ is one of the most used search tool on the earth, used by majority of the world’s population for research, communication, conveniences, entertainment and much more. Over the years, cases in relation to negative transformation of human behaviors, where people are becoming emotionally depress, horrified, vulnerable, addicted through the internet has become a serious problem for many people around the world, including us.

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.

The Internet is a technology that has negative impacts on our daily lives. It has changed aspects of our life for the last 50 years, and it has demonstrated the considerable influence on people’s lives. Almost 3.2 billion people in the world use the internet. The Internet has gained acceptance across the globe, and it has also become a reason behind the critical changes in the modern society. Some of the changes are social isolation, health disorder, lack of privacy and internet addiction.

The world we live in today and the modern generation rely around the internet and social media. The necessity of libraries for research has become relatively extinct compared to the amount of knowledge available at one’s fingertips in a matter of seconds with the internet. Hand writing letters to loved ones is looked upon as an ancient practice to the modern generation, where a text message or e-mail can be sent in seconds. Even e-mail is losing popularity between younger people due to its slower nature compared to texting. Slow WiFi connection or excessive data usage bring about great stress on a daily basis. Recent reports have shown that the average person spends approximately six hours online each day, with almost two of those hours consumed by social networks. Although there are plenty of practical and useful purposes for the internet, there are just as many websites or social networking forums that can be destructive and excessively consume our time.

The Internet is a connection of computers across the world through a network. Its origin dates back to the 1960s when the U.S Military used it for research, but it became more available to the public from the late 1980s. The World Wide Web was created in 1989 and browsers began appearing in the early 1990s. Over the last 24 years, the Internet has enabled people to shop, play, do research, communicate and conduct business online. It has also become cheaper and faster in performing different tasks. As much as the Internet has done immeasurable good to society, it has also dominated people’s lives and brought with it an array of cybercrimes. According to Nicholas Carr in his book The Shallows: How the Internet is Changing the Way we Think,