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The document discusses the advantages and disadvantages of the internet. Some key advantages include sharing information easily, accessing a huge amount of online information, getting news and entertainment, online education, and communication tools. Some disadvantages include viruses, security problems, theft of personal information, spamming, and the potential for immoral content online.

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Advantages and Disadvantages of Internet

The document discusses the advantages and disadvantages of the internet. Some key advantages include sharing information easily, accessing a huge amount of online information, getting news and entertainment, online education, and communication tools. Some disadvantages include viruses, security problems, theft of personal information, spamming, and the potential for immoral content online.

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ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF


INTERNET
INTRODUCTION:
Definition:
The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that
use the standardized Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP) to serve billions of users
worldwide. It is a network of networks that consists of millions of private and
public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global
scope that are linked by copper wires, fiber-optic cables, wireless
connections, and other technologies. The Internet carries a vast array of
information resources and services, most notably the inter-linked hypertext
documents of the World Wide Web (WWW) and the infrastructure to
support electronic mail. In addition it supports popular services such as
online chat, file transfer and file sharing, gaming, commerce, social
networking, publishing, video on demand, and teleconferencing and
telecommunications. Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) applications allow
person-to-person communication via voice and video.

History:
The Internet was created in the United States in 1969 by the "United States
Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency" (known as
ARPA). The World Wide Web was created at CERN in Switzerland in the 1990s
by a British (UK) man named Tim Berners-Lee.

Today, people can pay a fee to access the Internet from Internet Service
Providers. Some services on the Internet cost nothing to use. Sometimes
the people who offer these free services use advertising to make money
from them. The alternative name, "Net" came from "inter(net)".

I. ADVENTAGES OF INTERNET:
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The Internet provides many facilities to the people. The main


advantages of Internet are discussed below.

1. 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.

2. Collection of Information:

There is a huge amount of information available on the internet for just


about every subject known to man, ranging from government law and
services, trade fairs and conferences, market information, new ideas and
technical support

3. 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.

4. Searching Jobs:
You can search different types of jobs all over the world, Most of the
organizations/departments around the world, advertise their vacant
vacancies on the Internet. The search engines are also used to search the
jobs on Internet. You can apply for the required job through Internet.

5. Advertisement:

Today, most of the commercial organizations advertise their product


through Internet. It is very cheap and efficient way for the advertising of
products. The products can be presented with attractive and beautiful
way to the people around the world.

6. 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
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 Internet telephony etc.


7. Entertainment :

Internet also provides different type of entertainments to the people. You


can play games with other people in any part of the world. Similarly, you
can see movies, listen music etc. You can also make new friends on the
Internet for enjoyment.

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. Online Airlines and Railway Schedules:

Many Airline companies and Pakistan Railway provide their schedules of


flights and trains respectively on the Internet.

11. 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.

12. Email:
Email is now an essential communication tools in business. It is also
excellent for keeping in touch with family and friends. The advantages to
email is that it is free (no charge per use) when compared to telephone, fax
and postal services.

13. Services:
Many services are now provided on the internet such as online banking,
job seeking and applications, and hotel reservations. Often these services
are not available off-line or cost more.

14. Buy or sell products:


The internet is a very effective way to buy and sell products all over the
world
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II. DISADVANTAGES OF INTERNET:

Although Internet has many advantages but it also has some


disadvantages. The main disadvantages are:

1. Viruses

Today, Internet is the most popular source of spreading viruses. Most of


the viruses transfer from one computer to another through e-mail or
when information is downloaded on the Internet. These viruses create
different problems in your computer. For example, they can affect the
performance of your computer and damage valuable data and
software stored in your computer.

2. Security Problems:

The valuable websites can be damaged by hackers and your valuable


data may be deleted. Similarly, confidential data may be accessed by
unauthorized persons.
3. 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.

4. 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.
5. Immorality:

Some websites contains immoral materials in the form of text, pictures or


movies etc. These websites damage the character of new generation.

6. Negative effects on family communication:

Although there are conflicting research findings on this topic, an article


published by Science Daily reported that time spent on the Internet was
associated with later declines in within house family communication and a
decrease in the number of friends and acquaintances with which they
kept ties.
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7. 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.

8. English language problems:


Most of the information on the Internet is available in English
language. So, some people cannot avail the facility of Internet.

9. 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.

10. 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.
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CONCLUSION:
The proliferation of Internet technologies has both advantages and
disadvantages. The capabilities for information retrieval and
communication are infinite, but children can be exposed to illicit
material, individual privacy is threatened and it's a virtual medium
rather than a physical one.

Everywhere you look in today's society, the internet is a major part of


everyone's life. Whether its school, business, personal life, or
entertainment, the internet has influenced us immensely. When the word
internet is heard, one has an image of what it represents, but what really
is the internet? According to Oxford Dictionary, the internet is: "a system
of connected computers that allows computer users around the world to
exchange information." Currently, about one third of the world has access
to the internet. Personally, I have accepted the invention of the internet
to be a world revolution. I would define the internet to be an exceptional
learning and entertainment tool that can be used in a variety of ways to
enhance a user's ability to gather information. Although, the internet is
very beneficial to society, one.....

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