The Internet : The Negative Effects Of The Internet

Throughout the years the impact of the internet on society has evolved in many different ways. Since the creation of the internet its purpose in society has also evolved in various ways. At its simplest the internet is a tool that can be used for communication. As many of us know the internet is a flexible tool unlike any others that one can shape to fulfill their vision. In recent years the internet has emerged as a major source for information entertainment, and news, and other various means of communication. The internet has revolutionized the way in which the media operates. The media uses the internet as a tool to get information to the masses. Before the internet

The internet itself now plays an important role in our everyday lives, and has revolutionised both society and education. Following the invention of electronic computers in the 1950’s, the main format of the internet (that we still use today) was invented in 1978, before going global in the 1980’s. Primarily, the invention of the internet is important, due to how it revolutionised technology, and in such a short amount of time. Thanks to the internet mobile phones, laptops, and developed social media have all been invented, following the global demand during the 1980’s. As well as this, the invention of the internet has benefitted society due to the new technology that has sped up general tasks around the home, the spread of news and political topics, and the time used for revision, particularly with students. Just like the Civil Rights movement, without the internet, our modern society would be very

The Internet is an amazing tool that we all (in the United States) get to freely enjoyed. I previously took the Global Issues course, and I find out that for many countries, particularly in China, their government controls their Internet; they do not get to enjoy Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter like we do.

Today, the Internet is the center of attention for businesses, governments, schools and individuals around the world. It has produced new industries, transformed existing ones, and has become a global cultural experience not only for adults but for children as well. It is a learning tool used to educate in schools and within our homes. The surfacing of the Internet as another means of electronic communication has had a transformative influence on social interaction.

Aside from cognitive skills decreasing, social development is also at risk. The average teenager spends up to 8 hours on the computer, which is a staggering 56 hours a week (Steven Reinberg). With all the time spent surfing the web or playing computer games, and the remaining amount of time spent sleeping or at school, it conflicts with a student’s ability to socialize. Although there are many networking sites such as facebook, myspace, and online chat rooms an individual can communicate through, it is not the same as face-to-face. Those who spend so much time on the internet begin to withdraw from regular society, becoming isolated because they lose the ability to social interact.

Ph.D Philip Brey of the University of Twente gives us a look at advantages and disadvantages of the internet in his essay ‘Evaluating the Social and Cultural Implications of the Internet’. His general advantages are as stated above; from communication to education and so forth. Brey also gives us examples of disadvantages of the internet. He states that the internet can contain false information and even harmful information. Due to this overwhelming amount of harmful information, it poses the possibility of allowing people to create terrorist items such as homemade bombs. It also allows children the access to seem explicit content such as pornography or graphic videos. The internet also gives pedophiles and child rapists the opportunity to find victims more easy. The web can also hurt commerce in the sense that it is now feasible to download software, movies, or music illegally which hurts publishing sales. People are often hurt by what they read or hear on the internet, which sometimes can result to them self harming themselves, and even suicide. The sad fact is there are bad people in this

For decades, people have lived without a phone, a computer or a tablet in their hands. But, in these days, surviving without any kind of technology connected to the Internet is so difficult to overcome. Moreover, the youngest individuals are learning to live in a world completely dependent on the Internet. Moreover, it you want to learn about how to use computers and the Internet, go to ask your grandchildren to teach you. Anyone cannot imagine how to live without the Internet. Of course, this is categorized as the best development of the history.But, how does it affect the cizicents of the world? Some adults and teachers are worried about the loss of social skills, as the ability to communicate up close and personal with friends and family, as consequence of the Internet.

Growth of internet usage worldwide revolutionized access to knowledge and means of communication (Greydanus 452). Many children today are affected by their use of Internet which has both positive and negative implications. This paper argues that the outcome of Internet use by children depends greatly on how it is used and how Internet use is supervised and guided by agents of socialization such as parents, families, teachers, and other adults. There are many positive and negative outcomes of the use of Internet by children. Negative outcomes that can diminish children’s well-being and cognitive and socialization capacity include harmful social interactions such as cyber-bullying, negative emotional and physical consequences, ineffective personal time management, exposure to violent and obscene content, and exposure to commercial advertising and consumerism. Positive benefits include the use of Internet for school study, development of creativity, access to variety of useful information, and communication on educational matters with children in other countries. Children who are using Internet for educational purposes and communications that enhance their development are getting smarter and more socialized whereas children who use Internet pathologically and excessively for other purposes may get less smart and less socialized.

The Internet today is a means of global communication, education, and spending but when it was first invented a lot of people at first thought that it was useless and wasn’t going to become that popular. Created in 1971, by Robert E. Kahn and Vint Cerf, The Internet’s main use was to make communication between scientists in different countries quicker and easier by connecting them over a single global network. Who knows if it hadn’t worked how would life be different today. However, it did work and today it is much more than just a way to talk to someone without have to write a letter, go see them, or call them over the phone. For one, it is a job source. Thousands of people are working for online companies. From all these new jobs being

Young adults’ reliance on the internet has developed into an addiction, resulting in teenagers to feel isolated and disconnected from their peers. In an experiment conducted in “The Effect of Social Network Sites on Adolescents’ Social and Academic Development: Current Theories and Controversies” June Ahn “found that longer use of the Internet was related to increased depression, loneliness, and smaller social circles.” The younger generation lacks genuine socialization because of the extensive amount of time teenagers spend isolated in their own virtual world. The lack of physical interaction has taken a toll on youths’ ability to develop social skills and friendships. With a lack of these social skills, today’s youth will experience trouble socializing, affecting their ability to create and maintain friendships. Furthermore, in Keith Hampton’s article “Is Technology Making People Less Sociable?” he reveals today’s youth, “spend so much time maintaining superficial connections online

Internet has influenced everyone and has changed our daily life. It has become so important that even the children are using it daily. It’s impacting children in many ways. Some children do have the potential of learning by having the access to all sorts of information, they use the Internet constructively and for positive educational uses, but many unfortunately don’t get good things from it or used the internet for things they aren’t suppose to be doing. Internet has its risks and benefits. Some benefits are; education is being teach differently, kids are improving cognitive abilities, increasing interest in reading, improving writing ability, improving social skills, improving self esteem, helping children with learning disorder, and lastly allowing children to be experts and teaching their parents. But in the other hand the Internet has its risks; children get distracted easily, their lacking knowledge, bullying, addiction, and having less social life. Internet has impacted children in several ways, now it all depends how they use it. Parents could help guide them by making sure they are using it constructively.

Technology is impacting the lives of almost everyone that uses it in both positive and negative ways. The internet can provide people a place to learn and communicate, but now more than ever before, the internet is being used in a negative way. People seem to not care as much about others as they did before and it is becoming a real problem. This can lead to issues as teenagers develop their identity. The internet is making it hard for younger people to understand who they really are, who they want to be, and how their relationships work.

The effects of the internet on me and this society have been rapidly changing. Did you know that approximately 3.2 billion people use the internet, about 200 billion emails and 3 million google searches would have to wait if the internet was turned off for one day. Let me tell you about something that happened when i was little, it might be off topic a little but when i was little i was born backwards, meaning i came out legs first. My hips were out of place and until i was about 2. My dad is always on the internet and loved taking pictures of his “Little princess”, the pictures can still be found on facebook along with a lot of other things from my family memories. That was when i started wanting to get on the internet, i asked for a facebook and they said no, being a rebel i made one anyways just to play the games on it. The internet can have positive and negative things about it for younger and older people, for example the internet engines are one of the best information givers out there, they bring almost everything and anything to a lot of internet users that lange from all over the world. The internet can provide ways to communicate with family and friends from a long distance, and even meet new people. Bad things about it is people sharing and storing illegal information on the internet, much like the dark web. The addiction to the internet and the online network can be disturbing a person's way of living and professional activity.

The Internet is a “massive network that connects millions of worldwide computers together”, forming a network in which any computer can communicate with any other computer as long as they are both connected to the Internet. In the history of the Internet, it started as a way of communication between privileged people of a small group; in contrast, nowadays almost every home in high and middle income families over the world has Internet at home, used by people all ages. Without a doubt, the Internet is a powerful tool that is revolutionizing our children’s learning, communication and play; but as they say, “With great power comes great responsibility”, and the Internet has created new challenges for the society and most threatening among these is the impact it has on children. For this reason, the Internet should not be part of our children’s life because it has negative effects on their physical, cognitive, and social development.

Great success has been achieved in technology in the past 50 years which has changed the way people live as a society. Internet is a modern technological form of communication that not only is capable of communicating with one another but offers varieties of its uses such as sharing information , playing games , information storage , GPS tracking, etc. A society is where different people live together with a social behavior as interacting , helping , talking , sharing and caring for one another. The drastic change in technology has made the life of peoples easier and faster but every fruits with benefits has its costs. Technology is praised for its ability to change the shape of society and lead towards comfortable living of peoples . However, the development of internet is so successful in drawing huge attention , time and interest of youngsters that the youngsters are spending most or even all of their leisure time on it. The people from new and fresh generations are born and grow in the society where the use of internet becomes such a basic element of life that they become a lot dependent and addicted to it. Youngsters are not as social and interacting as they used to be in societies back 25-30 years ago. communication , work , education, playing, etc. everything that required people to come together and interact is being done though internet. Young generations are the fathers of next , and they should be introduced to internet in a right way such that they