The Internet has firmly entered the everyday life of modern man. With it, you can always find the information you need, make a video call at any time, and pay for various services. Thanks to the Internet, virtually unlimited possibilities have appeared in all areas of life.
Good or evil?
The Internet plays a serious role in our lives. But it definitely cannot be called good or evil. In this regard, you can metaphorically compare the World Wide Web with a kitchen knife. With it, you can cook a delicious dinner. And you can kill a person. And everyone makes their choice, is responsible for its consequences. The Internet in human life is good or evil, depending on the individual himself. After all, if he chooses for himself dependence or harm to health - in the future he will have to "pay the bills" on his own. Anyone who uses the Internet for good will see positive aspects in it.
Positive sides
You can list many advantages of the Internet:
- The Internet is an excellent repository of information. Everyone can turn to his resources and find the answer to his question. Encyclopedias and reference books are in the distant past. Now for each question you can find the answer on the Web.
- Almost unlimited opportunities for communication. A person can communicate in social networks, instant messengers, find friends by interests. The Internet in the life of a teenager has become an essential way to share your inner world with others.
- On the Web, you can consult with a specialist, express your opinion, chat.
- You can enjoy listening to music, watching pictures, games.
- You can also find a job. Designers, programmers and many others have the opportunity to make money on the Web.
- On the web you can advertise your product. The Internet is a great place where businessmen promote their products and find new customers.
Minuses
And you can also list the weaknesses of the Internet:
- Uncontrolled placement of various information has led to the fact that truthful data began to intersperse with inaccurate. For young people who are just starting to absorb information, this leads to distorted ideas about the world.
- In social networks, along with normal people, fraudsters, maniacs and other people with illegal intentions are operating. The Internet in our lives has become a real source of danger.
- In conditions of freedom, sites of an asocial nature have multiplied. Their masters are sects, extremist groups. They advocate violence and aggression. Sites of pornographic content that negatively affect the children's psyche are adjacent to this group.
- Free posting of comments on the Web has led to the fact that obscene language is found everywhere. Imaginary anonymity led to the fact that abuse has become the norm.
- Accessibility of games turned into such a disaster as addiction to a computer. Gambling is like addiction. The opportunity to get a “new life" turned out for players to blur the line between virtual life and reality.
- Posting photos on social networks has become one of the most dangerous types of Internet addiction. Adolescents, trying to make a rare shot, because of their stupidity, often risk their lives.
Life without the Internet
Once, computers and the Web were not as important to people as they are now. Everything gradually began to change with the advent of game consoles. Many people remember the game "Mario", "Contra", "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" and "Tanks". This was the first alarm bell - gradually, technologies began to break into human life. Children and adolescents could sit for hours in front of the TV screen, trying to pass the next level of the game, and then they eagerly shared their victories with classmates. Gradually, the Internet in our lives became more and more significant. However, then to the mass mass was very far away.
Time began to rush at the speed of sound. Yesterday's children grew up, worked on textbooks, and spent the night preparing for exams. Life has not always brought pleasant surprises. Children changed, and life itself changed. And now the first mobile phones began to appear. The computer gradually replaced itself with everything - libraries are now empty. You will no longer meet children playing musketeers with wooden sticks on the streets. All this has become not fashionable. The Internet in our life has begun to replace other sources of information, ways of entertainment. And why should children play “mother-daughters” or imagine themselves to be musketeers if they can become masters of the universe with a computer or have their own virtual home?
Virtual communication has replaced real
The last nail in the coffin of live communication between people was social networks. Everything turned upside down completely. Now we have ceased to enjoy real communication - everything happens in the virtual world. A person expresses emotions through round yellow pictures, he posts his innermost thoughts on a blog, closely monitoring likes and reactions of other Internet users. Of course, people did not stop dating each other. But this communication has become more bland, and increasingly it is replaced by virtual. There was practically no time left for the natural satisfaction of psychoemotional needs.
Of course, we can say that progress has been blasphemed at all times, yearning for antiquity. However, everything should have a reasonable limit, balance. The Internet in our lives today leads to addictions in people of all ages. Modern society has witnessed that the balance first gave a small leak, and then slowly began to lean in one direction.