Internet connecting us all: Advantages and Disadvantages

Internet

Internet have become the most essential thing now a days even for business, studies and entertainment purposes. When internet started it actually felt odd to most people.

No one was used to open connectedness. But with time the importance and need of internet increased as well people become very much aware of the fact that there are a lot of advantages of internet and it can do many things easily which are almost impossible for a normal human being to do. The internet had to become a place for people to “grasp” the idea.       

The internet is not a thing or a place but it is a network for communication that is layered into our everyday existence. The main motive of using internet is not only connecting various human beings but also connecting an object with human and human with different things. There are so many things going on in this world but we are here sitting in a corner of our room in a small city then how will we be able to know what we are going through and what the whole world is going through without having any internet access in our daily life. The use of internet has changed the whole criteria of human beings. But as we know the nothing and no one is perfect and everything comes with pros and some cons. Although there are huge number of advantages that internet is providing us but still those advantages are not alone and are companied by some cons.

Advantages

However, internet has many advantages such that internet has become a very important part of our life

1. Internet connects the people with the thread of networks thus many issues of this generation like less confidence, having mental insecurities and loneliness are manages easily and effectively by internet.
2. Online shopping is becoming very popular these days because in these virtual shops you can buy anything in any amount in these shops. It has become a very well-known and established business these days.
3. We all know that internet is the main source of information these days we really don’t have to waste our time in memorizing the things that we don’t know and to learn all the history and geography of the world. Internet provides all the information within just few seconds.
4. Source of entertainment is internet. Music, movies, online chatting, videocalls and many other things are trending and are used by the whole world.  
5. A very important feature of internet is that it saves a lot of time. The things that can take almost a day if they are done manually are done so easily and within some hours through internet. 
6. We don’t have to study any subject professionally if we want to learn something from it, we can directly Google it or we can see many videos and lectures on YouTube also thus internet makes our life very easy. 

Disadvantages

As we know even if internet provides a lot of advantages but there are few things that effect our daily life and even our health which are given below:

1. Waste of time: Even internet provides us many advantages but we really can’t deny the fact that we are becoming addicted to it day by day. We waste almost all of our free time on mobile phones and internet and we are becoming socially inactive.
2. There are many illegal and useless things on internet that are prohibited for children and they can be a bad influence for the young children who should grow their mind with positivity and good habits.
3.  There are many hacking communities on internet. The privacy of the user on internet has become a very difficult issue. As we know that data is transferred through internet in the form of packages, the hackers sniff that packets and easily reconstruct.
4. Money frauds: There are many fake businesses ads on internet and many people can easily fraud other ones with the fake information of their business and can take their money and fool them by using many hacking techniques.
5. Viruses/Malwares: Our system often gets attacked by some viruses during we are using internet. They destroy the data of our system and even sometimes responsible for buffering of our data. These viruses are transmitted via internet.
6. We are becoming physically weak by using regular internet and our brain is becoming useless because we get answers of each and every problem just by a single click and it destroying our brain power and our physical strength.