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The document discusses the advantages and disadvantages of using the internet. It outlines many advantages such as improved communication globally through email and video chat, easy sharing of information, vast collection of freely available information through search engines, online entertainment options, and new services like online banking and shopping. However, it also notes disadvantages like the potential theft of personal information, spam emails, virus threats, easy access to inappropriate content, potential for addiction, difficulty filtering accurate information, and wasting of time on non-productive online activities.

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Adv ND Disadv of Internet

The document discusses the advantages and disadvantages of using the internet. It outlines many advantages such as improved communication globally through email and video chat, easy sharing of information, vast collection of freely available information through search engines, online entertainment options, and new services like online banking and shopping. However, it also notes disadvantages like the potential theft of personal information, spam emails, virus threats, easy access to inappropriate content, potential for addiction, difficulty filtering accurate information, and wasting of time on non-productive online activities.

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ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF

INTERNET

INTRODUCTION
Internet has become the most ever powerful tool for man throughout
the world. The internet is a collection of various services and
resources. 

Although, many people still think e-mail and World Wide Web as the
principle constituents of internet, there is lot more in store than e-
mail, chat rooms, celebrity web sites and search engines. It also
became the best business tool of modern scenario. Today internet has
brought a globe in a single room. Right from news across the corner of
the world, wealth of knowledge to shopping, purchasing the tickets of
your favorite movie-everything is at your finger tips. Internet has
great potential and lot to offer… however, like every single innovation
in science and technology, internet has its own advantages and
disadvantages. 

ADVANTAGES

1) COMMUNICATION:

You can communicate with other through Internet around the world.


You can talk by watching to one another; just you are talking with
your friends in your drawing room. For this purpose, different services
are provided on the Internet such as;

 Chatting
 Video conferencing
 E-mail
 Internet telephony etc
2) SHARING INFORMATION:

You can share information with other people around the world. The
scientist or researchers can interact with each other to share
knowledge and to get guidance etc. Sharing information
through Internet is very easy, cheap and fast method.

3) COLLECTION OF INFORMATION:

A lot of information of different types is stored on the web server on


the Internet. It means that billions websites contain different
information in the form of text and pictures. You can easily collect
information on every topic of the world. For this purpose, special
websites, called search engines are available on the Internet to search
information of every topic of the world. The most popular search
engines are altavista.com, search.com, yahoo.com, ask.com etc. The
scientists, writers, engineers and many other people use these search
engines to collect latest information for different purposes. Usually, the
information on the Internet is free of cost. The information on
the Internet is available 24 hours a day

4) SEARCHING PURPOSE:

Students and children are among the top users who surf the Internet
for research. Today, it is almost required that students should use the
Internet for research for the purpose of gathering resources. Teachers
have started giving assignments that require research on the Internet.
Almost every coming day, researches on medical issues become much
easier to locate. Numerous web sites available on the net are offering
loads of information for people to research diseases and talk to doctors
online at sites such as, America’s Doctor. During 1998 over 20 million
people reported going online to retrieve health information.
5) ENTERTAINMENT:

Entertainment is another popular raison d'être why many people prefer


to surf the Internet. In fact, media of internet has become quite
successful in trapping multifaceted entertainment factor. Downloading
games, visiting chat rooms or just surfing the Web are some of the
uses people have discovered. There are numerous games that may be
downloaded from the Internet for free. The industry of online gaming
has tasted dramatic and phenomenal attention by game lovers. Chat
rooms are popular because users can meet new and interesting
people. In fact, the Internet has been successfully used by people to
find lifelong partners. When people surf the Web, there are numerous
things that can be found. Music, hobbies, news and more can be found
and shared on the Internet.

6) NEWS:

You can get latest news of the world on the Internet. Most of the
newspapers of the world are also available on the Internet. They have
their websites from where you can get the latest news about the
events happening in the world. These websites are periodically
updated or they are immediately updated with latest news when any
event happens around the world.

7) SERVICES:

Many services are now provided on the internet such as online


banking, job seeking, purchasing tickets for your favorite movies,
guidance services on array of topics engulfing the every aspect of life,
and hotel reservations. Often these services are not available off-line
and can cost you more.
8) E-COMMERCE:

Ecommerce is the concept used for any type of commercial


maneuvering, or business deals that involves the transfer of
information across the globe via Internet. It has become a
phenomenon associated with any kind of shopping, almost anything.
You name it and Ecommerce with its giant tentacles engulfing every
single product and service will make you available at your door steps.
It has got a real amazing and wide range of products from household
needs, technology to entertainment.

9) ONLINE EDUCATION:
Internet provides the facility to get online education. Many websites of
different universities provide lectures and tutorials on different
subjects or topics. You can also download these lectures or tutorials
into your own computer. You can listen these lectures repeatedly and
get a lot of knowledge. It is very cheap and easy way to get education.

10) ONLINE RESULTS:


Today, most of the universities and education boards provide results
on the Internet. The students can watch their results from any part of
country or world.

11) ONLINE AIRLINES AND RAILWAY SCHEDULES:


Many Airline companies and Pakistan Railway provide their schedules
of flights and trains respectively on the Internet.

12) ONLINE MEDICAL ADVICE:


Many websites are also available on the Internet to get information
about different diseases. You can consult a panel of online doctors to
get advice about any medical problem. In addition, a lot of material is
also available on the Internet for research in medical field.
DISADVANTAGES

1) THEFT OF PERSONAL INFORMATION:

If you use the internet, you may be facing grave danger as your
personal information such as name, address, credit card number etc.
can be accessed by other culprits to make your problems worse.

2) SPAMMING:

Spamming refers to sending unwanted e-mails in bulk, which provide


no purpose and needlessly obstruct the entire system. Such illegal
activities can be very frustrating for you, and so instead of just
ignoring it, you should make an effort to try and stop these activities
so that using the internet can become that much safer. 

3) VIRUS THREAT:

Virus is nothing but a program which disrupts the normal functioning


of your computer systems. Computers attached to internet are more
prone to virus attacks and they can end up into crashing your whole
hard disk, causing you considerable headache.

4) PORNOGRAPHY:

This is perhaps the biggest threat related to your children’s healthy


mental life. A very serious issue concerning the Internet. There are
thousands of pornographic sites on the Internet that can be easily
found and can be a detrimental factor to letting children use the
Internet.
Though, internet can also create havoc, destruction and its misuse can
be very fatal, the advantages of it outweigh its disadvantages.
5) INTERNET CAN BY ADDICTIVE:

Some people just can’t live without it. They have no real friends and
when Internet is down they are getting furious.
Internet has some opponents but more and more people treats
Internet like telephone, or radio. They use it for fun and work, and I
think at present living without internet would be quite difficult.

6) FILTRATION OF INFORMATION:

When a keyword is given to a search engine to search information of a


specific topic, a large number of related links a displayed. In this case,
it becomes difficult to filter out the required information.

7) ACCURACY OF INFORMATION:

A lot of information about a particular topic is stored on the websites.


Some information may be incorrect or not authentic. So, it becomes
difficult to select the correct information. Sometimes you may be
confused.

8) WASTAGE OF TIMES:

A lot of time is wasted to collect the information on the Internet. Some


people waste a lot of time in chatting or to play games. At home and
offices, most of the people use Internet without any positive purpose.

9) ENGLISH LANGUAGE PROBLEMS:

Most of the information on the Internet is available in English


language. So, some people cannot avail the facility of Internet

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