INTERNET

INTERNET

According to Oxford Dictionary, “ The internet is an agreement of connected computers , which lets the computer users all over the globe exchange data.”

We can say that Internet is an arrangement where all the computers of the world can join each other to exchange their information. it is a worldwide and very effective modern computerized communication system for exchanging different types of data or information.

Features:

a)      It serves as a business tool.

b)     It is entertainment and learning tool, also.

c)      It can be used in various types of modes as per requirements of the users.

d)     It is global meeting place where people from every corner of the world can come simultaneously.

e)     It is a basic requirement of most of electronic medias.

f)       It has created an information pool which is growing day by day.

Advantages

a)      It has made lots of information and knowledge available to its users.

b)     It made communication wider, faster, safer, more convenient and very economical.

c)      It is very convenient to use because it allows user to work from anywhere and at any time.

d)     It made the world smaller and brought it together where all the off-shore facilities have become extremely comfortable.

e)     It has developed social network where people stay connected and exchange lot of things in digital form.

f)       It is environment friendly as its all data is in digital form which doesn’t requires papers.

g)      It has supported many online services which are free or have low cost such as banking, mailing, job seeking, booking tickets etc.

h)     It provides entertainment such as movies, music, songs, games etc. in many numbers.

i)       It has also provided big size of store for data including texts, music, pictures, images, videos etc.

Disadvantages:

a)      There is guarantee of correctness and truthfulness of information and knowledge available on internet.

b)     People waste their time when they connect to internet.

c)      There is greater chance of misuse of knowledge and technology provided by internet.

d)     It encourages digital presence and reduce the need to meet the people directly hence liveliness of the relations have gone.

e)     People are becoming physically inactive and unhealthy.

f)       It also created issues of data security because of cyber threats.

g)      Many internet users engaged in unproductive tasks and lost their creativity.

h)     It increased energy consumption.