The document discusses both the advantages and disadvantages of using the internet. It notes that while the internet makes online shopping and connecting with others around the world convenient, it can also enable wasting time, loss of privacy, and reduced real-world social skills. Specifically, it outlines how the internet allows cheaper shopping and communication without travel, but may encourage procrastination, public oversharing of private information, and less face-to-face interaction for children. Overall, the document concludes people should use the internet wisely to improve lives and balance online and offline activities.
The document discusses both the advantages and disadvantages of using the internet. It notes that while the internet makes online shopping and connecting with others around the world convenient, it can also enable wasting time, loss of privacy, and reduced real-world social skills. Specifically, it outlines how the internet allows cheaper shopping and communication without travel, but may encourage procrastination, public oversharing of private information, and less face-to-face interaction for children. Overall, the document concludes people should use the internet wisely to improve lives and balance online and offline activities.
The document discusses both the advantages and disadvantages of using the internet. It notes that while the internet makes online shopping and connecting with others around the world convenient, it can also enable wasting time, loss of privacy, and reduced real-world social skills. Specifically, it outlines how the internet allows cheaper shopping and communication without travel, but may encourage procrastination, public oversharing of private information, and less face-to-face interaction for children. Overall, the document concludes people should use the internet wisely to improve lives and balance online and offline activities.
Nowadays the internet is very popular because it makes
life easier for people. However, there are disadvantages that we must consider. Firstly, the internet makes it easy for people to gain good deals, discounts online than traditions shopping. As can be seen, when people go shopping traditionally, the items will be more expensive quite a lot because it costs extra money for premises, staff and service etc. For online shopping, the sellers do not need to pay unnecessary charges and have support from investors of the application, so the items is cheaper and people can save money. Secondly, connection with others in virtual any part of the world, without having to leave his rooms. With the complicated epidemic situation, staying at home is the best but not for that our working or studying is stopped. It is now possible to send a message to any parts of the world through a simple e-mail address and the message is delivered in matter of seconds. Thanks to the internet, we are likely sit at home to meet people or support us to study and work anywhere. However, for all its advantages and positive aspects, the internet has its dark and ugly side too. Firstly, even though the internet can help us save time, there are many people who waste time on it. Some students spend too much time on the internet and neglect their school work. Also, they might lose concentration on their studies. Moreover some of them can't even divide their time to do homework but they spent their time on watching movie or chatting with their friends through internet. Secondly, the internet has made life easier for people in many ways but it's also reflecting an uglier side that it made our information is public. With a large amount of information freely available on the internet, theft and misuse of this information is easy. Sometimes you can see your information is used by strange people and passing it off as their own to make money. Lastly, the internet had to make people lose their ability to communicate and depending on the internet. Children nowadays seem to lose their ability to communicate with others. They are used to communicate with others via the internet but they cannot communicate with others face- to-face. They like play alone and make friends in the internet, increase the risk of being approached and taken advantage for the bad guys. In conclusion, there are many advantages and disadvantages of the internet. It is for us to decide whether we use technology for the betterment of our lives or put it to unabated abuse. We should balance use internet and go outsides, to make the internet more useful and better.