The Negative Impact Of The Internet In The United States

“Moore’s law is the observation that, over the history of computing hardware, the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit has doubled approximately every

“...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.

For this reason, the Internet, as it evolved education, revolutionized medical productivity, and grew the economy by expanding business opportunities, influenced the United States the most in the 20th century.

The Internet’s continuous advancement has produced the need for an on-going debate on whether or not the government should have the power to control the Internet. The idea of the government having control over what each country’s citizens can see on the Internet is also called Internet Censorship. Internet Censorship “is the control or suppression of the publishing of, or access to information on the Internet.” Internet Censorship varies from country to country depending on each country’s current usage and philosophy of how it should be used. (toptenreviews.com) Currently, there are ten countries including

Australia and China approach freedom to access to the internet very differently. Substantial communal websites such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are all banned in China (Fu 2018) depriving the population of extensive communication with the outside world. This is juxtaposed to Australia’s extremely free internet usage, which sees only torrents and illegal deep websites being blacklisted. (BBC 2017) (Shepherd, Connelly 2012)

The internet has been a big deal in everyone's lives lately, but is it really helping us or hurting us? Even though the internet is said to change your way of thinking and maybe even rewire your brain, the internet also allows you to become more social in your daily life, it can affect how your daily life functions compared to past generations, and it changes the way of the business industry.

China beat out United States of America with the most Internet usage in the world but the government tries to keep their people on a tight lockdown on what people can look up on the Internet but to also keep away cyber-crimes from happening. What China doesn’t know is with all the tight lockdown people can still rebel against the government. (Liang)

There’s competition and capitalism at work, in the context of the impact on certain retailers of technology, the technology we’re talking about specifically is the internet and the impact via the internet is from retailers overseas who are generally domiciled in the countries of origin of the merchandise (that we’re considering) verses, retailers here in Australia. Technology has hindered retail in this country, by how much we’re absolutely uncertain, but anecdotally, the evidence is in retailers talk about customers coming, trying on, getting details, taking images on phones of labelling on merchandise to get it right, then going off shore and buying that dress or garment, from an online source overseas, the same thing applies to

it was acclaimed to be? The introduction of the Internet was a fascinating phenomenon, as for the first time people were readily able to keep up-to-date with news and media. As the Internet became an uprising trend, more and more people began to use it to easily access a wide variety of information and entertainment. In fact, Tolbert asserts, “By 1998 the percentage of respondents reported having Internet access had almost doubled.” With this widespread success, people began to use the web routinely as a part of their daily lives and even replaced some of their normal tasks, such as shopping, with its use. Additionally, many Americans of the time began to lazily

With today’s technology, communication and information can travel across the world in a matter of seconds. Ever since the internet was first made publically available in 1991 the ease of accessing entertainment, education, and information has been increasing every year. We now live in an age where roughly 30% of all people in the entire world are connected to the web ("World Internet Usage Statistics New and World Population Stats"). However, despite the obvious advantages of the internet’s freedom, some countries are trying to control the internet and display what it deems appropriate for the public eye. Many countries, including Australia, China, and North Korea implement a system to filter web content. Even the United States is now

After the 911 happened in America, US passed Patriot Act to extend power for NSA to collect information from people’s phone records or any sorts of communication in order to eliminate the chance of existence of terrorists. After the detection of terrorists, United States would destroy their groups via secret programs like drone program. Through the improvement of surveillance technology and the lack of oversight in the past decade, the NSA is breaking the norm of securing people’s private information and collecting mass data from people’s daily lives. NSA’s immoral action become an excuse for other countries to detain internet freedom. According to Washington Post 14, “repressive regimes have begun opting for a Internet that is increasingly controlled by national laws about what can and can't be done online. In 36 of the 65 countries surveyed around the world the state of Internet freedom declined in 2014”. In order to avoid the potential surveillance that NSA applied on social media like Facebook or Twitter, a large number of countries declined Internet freedom recently. Especially for China, a potential future global central power, definitely will compete with US no matter politically or economically in the future, is very likely to block the channel between US and China in order to ensure

China joined the global Internet age in 1994, and has been commercially available since 1995. Since then, Chinese Internet usage has seen explosive growth, doubling every six months, and the number of online users is only second to the US. The Internet age ushered in the information age with a new world of freedom and expression for the Chinese. However, soon after its inception, the Chinese government has reined in the free wheeling Internet users and has imposed new laws and restrictions to access and content on the Internet.

Many countries do limit the internet that their citizens can access. These are the same countries that we in our, public opinion, hold ourselves above because we are more ‘civilized’. Most of these countries are afraid of their citizens, it seems. The internet gives people the ability to connect with each other virtually instantaneously and with people that we may have not met otherwise. In a country

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.

Business has thived on the internet, internet business are able to reach a wider market [2]"Through the internet, a business of any size can compete in the global marketplace. In fact, on the internet, the size of an organization's operation makes little difference because the internet is an open environment. " because anyone has access to the internet businesses can reach anyone also giving the customer a wider choice of products.