A major threat to the people who use the internet, especially children, is the sex industry. It is very hard to ignore as there are thousands of sites of which many have very unobvious site names. This makes it very easy for children to access accidentally sites which are very inappropriate and can have great harmful effects on a young childs very impressionable mind. It is not acceptable for a young person to be exposed to the intimate world of adult pornography which can include anything from child porn to bestiality. Fortunately you are able to get programs such as “net minder” which protects young children from the filth on the net. These programs are regularly up dated barring more and more inappropriate pages as the net is constantly growing.
A major threat that nearly everyone who goes on the internet faces is the attack of hackers who can pretty much strike anyone at any time inflicting major damage and loss of money. These hackers are able to gain your confidential information using special hacking tools, this means they can get your credit card number that you gave out when doing online shopping and use it much to there benefit. These people are also able to create viruses that have the sole purpose of destroying and damaging your computer software. The “I love you” e-mail that was circulating the web recently is a good example of what people are capable of.
Many people now days us chat rooms and the like to make new friends and meet different people. This in turn can create problems as there is a danger of meeting weird people who may want to harm you. They can make themselves seem to be different from the person they really are, this can be a real danger if someone decides to meet a stranger they met on the net as he or she may turn out to be someone you really do not like. Yet they could become obsessed with you which would result in a lot of fear and possibly worse. But on the other hand it can be a very good way of forming new friendships or relationships with other businesses that are on the other side of the world
Although there are many threats to take into consideration when using the Internet if safety precautions are taken it can be an amazing place. The internet is like huge library that is categorized right at your finger tips, type a key word in and up come many of the options you have to look at. You can use it at any time day or night it never closes, making it an amazing asset to have when researching a topic. The Internet is very cheap and these days you can even get it for free, only a phone line or some sort of network like the schools system is needed and then your away.
The Internet has made businesses much more effective as they are now able to communicate with there clients and suppliers through e-mail. This cuts down the time having to be spent posting, sorting and collecting mail. Businesses can order there supplies as well as receiving orders from customers all through the net cutting down on time having to be spent on manually sorting orders.
The Internet is a success this is an ovious fact, just by looking at all the web pages on the net you can tell this so it is not going anywhere any time soon. Over all the Internet is definitely an asset in which I feel the pros considerably out weigh the cons, there are always going to be problems with something like this, but computer geniuses are fast developing systems to protect there customers from the pit falls of the net.
