Advantages or Disadvatages of Internet

Advantages or Disadvantages of Internet

1.0 Introduction

The internet can be explained as a connection of computer over the world. Nowadays the most powerful tool around the world is the internet. By using the internet, we can do lot things such as send data like e-mail, blogs and other. The internet also helps the business bring closer to the world. Shopping online, receiving the news over the world, and accessing the knowledge resources are the advantage of the internet. But all the time, the internet is good for everyone; it’s also having the disadvantage to the peoples. How the internet affects the general or the student nowadays, it’s have been discussed in below. (Scholaradivor, 2015)

2.0 Advantages of internet

2.1.1 Advantage of internet to general

First, the major advantage of the internet to people and students all over the world is fast and low cost. Nowadays, people are easier communicating with easy other through the internet cause can save money and unlimited communication. People only need to pay the costs to the internet provider. We can fast communication with someone who is in another part of the world by using the internet to compare to writing a letter to another. Using internet communicating also save our time compare to use letter, then pass to another person for a few days. For example, if people want talk to friends or family member who is far away, that person can use communication apps like We chat, Skype or LINE through video chat. (Lucas, 2015)

Next, the advantage of internet to generals is online services and E-commerce. Nowadays, peoples can easily make a financial transaction online at home. We can book a movie ticket, pay the bills or transfer money through online without go out from home. Now people are busy working, studying, and another thing, there are no time and tired go to shopping after coming back home. Those people only go online shopping to buy the thing they need or their want. E-commerce is for those people who made business dealing through online. We can pay the items through online banking. Online banking can avoid waste the time to wait the transaction completed at the bank, we can log into the account and completing the transaction for any time do by ourselves. The website, such as Amazon, EBay and Alibaba are the website that sell or buy the goods for the consumer through online. (Pakhare, 2013)

2.1.2 Advantage of the internet to college students

The advantage of the internet for the college students is online learning. Online learning is more suitable for the distance education or online learning. Through the online learning, we can take a short term course with the course materials, attend the fictitious classes, and emerge for the exams. The advantage of online learning is for the people who want to know the knowledge on not a like subject or the complete courses. The internet also made the education system easy. Now, we can see the courses that we decide to take, enrol in online courses, take classes, research, see the results, and also look for a job from the internet. (Pandit, 2013)