Advantage And Disadvantage of Internet
Group
~Rafidad Mohd Noor
~Nur Shahezatti Ali Hassan
~Nor Afidah Kasim
Class : DAT 1B
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Information on almost every subject imaginable.
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Ability to do research from your home versus research libraries.
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Information at various levels of study. Everything from scholarly articles
to ones directed at children.
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Message boards where people can discuss ideas on any topic. Ability to get
wide range of opinions. People can find others that have a similar interest in
whatever they are interested in.
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The internet provides the ability of emails. Free mail service to anyone in
the country.
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Platform for products like SKYPE, which allow for holding a video conference
with anyone in the world who also has access.
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Friendships and love connections have been made over the internet by people
involved in love/passion over similar interests.
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Things such as Yahoo Answers and other sites
where kids can have readily available help for homework.
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News, of all kinds is available almost instantaneously. Commentary, on that
news, from every conceivable viewpoint is also available.
Disadvantages:
- There is a lot of wrong information on the internet. Anyone can post
anything, and much of it is garbage.
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There are predators that hang out on the internet waiting to get
unsuspecting people in dangerous situations.
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Some people are getting addicted to the internet and thus causing problems
with their interactions of friends and loved ones.
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Pornography that can get in the hands of young children too easily.
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Easy to waste a lot of time on the internet. You can start surfing, and then
realize far more time has passed than you realized. Internet and television
together of added to the more sedentary lifestyles of people which further
exacerbates the obesity problem.
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Internet has a lot of "cheater" sites. People can buy essays and
pass them off as their own far more easily than they used to be able to do.
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There are a lot of unscrupulous businesses that have sprung up on the
internet to take advantage of people.
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Hackers can create viruses that can get into your personal computer and ruin
valuable data.
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Hackers can use the internet for identity theft.
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It can be quite depressing to be on the internet and realize just how
uneducated so many people have become in today's society
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