The influence of the internet

Technology development goes along with the development of the world. Currently the technology is
growing very rapidly, especially the development internet. Almost all of areas of the world such as
industry, business, education, entertainment, etc. use the Internet as media to help their works. Internet
has a variety of functions such as communication functions, data exchange, source of media information
and much more. One of the functions which used by internet user the most is internet as source of
media information. By using internet, they can get information quickly and easily. Nevertheless, the
ease of information that can be obtained from the internet gives a positive and negative impact for
users of the Internet itself. Here are the positive and negative impacts posed by the Internet that can be
perceived by the consumer.

There are so many positive impacts which can be felt by internet users such as: Internet users can get
the information easily and quickly. By simply entering a keyword in the search engines, they will get
what they are looking for. Internet users can also view location that wanted to see and very far without
going to the location. This function can be obtained by using features such as Google earth.

Moreover, Internet can be used by employers as media promotion. They can introduce their products
for free and easily on the internet. Internet users especially students also can get so many references
from books and material which is available on internet for free. There are so many sites that provide a
wide range of references such as scientific journals, Wikipedia and many more. And the last, internet
users can find out about the world and interact with all of the world’s population using social media
such as Facebook, twitter and others.

Besides having a positive impact, the Internet also has some negative impact for its users such as: the
freedom of information that can be obtained on the internet can be abused by its user. They use
internet to open the forbidden sites such as pornography, gambling and others. These sites are
accessible to people of all of ages whenever and wherever. Internet also can be used by people who are
not responsible for hacking into secret archives in cyberspace. Commonly the perpetrators of these
crimes are called hackers. They can even disrupt a country just by using the Internet.

In addition, Internet also can make most of students lazy to think about their task given by teacher
because almost all of lessons they can get on the internet. Internet also decreases the role of library in
real life. Library which is used as a place to read and find information is no longer used. Today students
prefer using internet by accessing online media or references that they can get on the internet.

From the short discussion above, we can conclude that internet has a positive and negative side that
could impact its users. Therefore, by seeing the impacts caused by the Internet, users have to be smart
in using the Internet. We do not abuse the wealth and freedom of information contained in the internet
technology to do something negative.