HAS THE INTERNET DONE US HARM OR GOOD

Internet has it done harm or good to us? Internet is the technology that people nowadays cant live without.It has brought great convenience into our lives and has made a great change in our life.With the wonderful help of internet,our lives has been made so much easier.certain examples are as follows,sending mails through the excess of email.Instead of using the phone to chat for long hours,we can use the internet chat relay to talk with the people directly .we can also do researches on project watch videos and also listen to songs.However,a minority of us do disagree with the fact that internet does more good then harm to us.in the following paragraphs, i will go into more detail on the debate if internet does more harm or good to us.

Majority of us do agree with the fact that the internet does more good then harm to us.Internet has definitely made our lives much easier.We can do a lot of things with the help of the internet.Examples like ,listening to music online while doing research or projects,chatting with a person in making it easier to converse rather the using the phone,emails which make our lives easier to send mails to people in a split second than sending it through letter box which takes about 3 to 4 days to be delivered.the internet plays a great part in youths life today.Without the internet,the kids will not be able to do their projects fast.With the help of the search engines such as yahoo,Google,dog pile and many more ,the students can get their assignments done in a much shorter period of time by just typing what they want to search about on the search engine.

Although most of us think that the internet has done more good then harm to us,we do have to respect every individuals thoughts whereby some of them disagree and have their say of why they think the internet has done more harm then good to us.The reasons why people think internet has done more harm then good to us is because its excess is being put to negative use than positive use.Certain examples are as follows:hacking of restricted sites ,surfing in illegal websites,downloading of music,sharing of documents and games via p2p(peer to peer).

Because the internet is a very wide digital technology that can be easily excessed by anyone,there will definitely be people who do illegal stuffs such as hacking into accounts,downloading movies from illegal websites and so on and so forth.However,that is not the issue here.It all depends on the mind set of the user.If they want to put good use to their time and make good use of the opportunity they have ,they will make good use of it like doing their projects,doing research or even downloading legal programmes like adobe photo shop .But if they choose to waste their time by hacking into website downloading illegal movies ,songs and games,then it is their lost.Thus ,it all depends on how they want to make use of this wonderful opportunity that we have.

However,majority of the parents are thinking that the internet is having a bad influence on their child.Although the internet has so many good sources,if the child still intends to go to illegal websites,the internet definitely has had a bad and wrong impression on the child.Example like lying to their parents that they are doing school projects but instead chatting away with their friends ,surfing in you tube,listening to music or playing games .In some cases ,the children even go to pornography websites which reflects badly on them and their parents because of the way they have brought their child up.

However,the rebuttal for this situation would be,if the parents worry so much they should discipline the child and watch over them when they are surfing the net.in order to prevent all this illegal things from happening, the parents should put effort and have a Norton anti virus installed in their computer which prevents the kids from entering to the illegal sites.

After hearing from both the sides on weather the internet has done us harm or good,we have people saying that the internet has definitely done us more good then harm ,while on the other hand, we have a certain group of people who are strong and firm on their opinion that the internet has done more harm then good to us,i have come to a conclusion .It does not matter weather the internet does harm or good to us it all depends on the way we use .It depends on weather we are abusing the internet ,or making good use of the chance we have.