The Invisible Side of the Internet

The Invisible Side of the Internet

In the developing world with the raising rate of the internet user, the internet has been becoming an inseparable part of people’s lives. As the internet is concerned with its side effects in the lives, it deprives them of their possessions like good relationship with others, creativity skill and the time that they have, and makes them have psychological illness like social-phobia and depression. In fact, it endangers their privacy. Therefore, people should be aware of the threads of the internet. Even though the internet seem to be beneficial, it can be the source of crucial issues in people’s lives.

First of all, People surfing on the internet should know that they will not be able to control themselves after they start to surf, which bring about some social and psychological problems. It is inevitable that people are inclined to commit illegal acts. The Internet is a place where the users can learn any type of information. For instance, when a person want to make a bomb or find a weapon, it is really easy to find those thing in detail with one-click. Moreover, the games including violence like fighting, bank robbery can have an influence on people, specifically for children who are at the age of adolescence and imposes on them as if the behaviors were normal. Furthermore, the internet users lose touch with the real world where people have good relationship with their friend and family because of the virtual world where there is no people to share the sense of happiness or sadness deeply. While people are speaking, joking, or trying to explain something across the screen, the person speaking with you cannot get the message exactly with one or two sentences or sending emotional signs, in other...

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...h are distracting. Therefore, those useless information is stored into our long term memory while the information that people want to learn is stored into short-term memory. Printed book reader understand the context more clearly in comparison with online text. The knowledge learned by reading is more comprehensible instead of watching and also person reading are more creative (Carr, 2008).

All in all, the internet has detrimental effects on people especially for young generations. The internet can impose some ideas on people, such as the violence among people is shown as a normal, the friendship is fake and instant, any information can be easily reached without the need of learning. Besides, it also a thread to our privacy. For these reasons, people should see that the internet is not a useful tool. Therefore, they should take precaution of using the internet.