This essay will review the impacts that telephone and television has created in people's lives and to justify the social impacts as well as the changes in work pattern brought on by the Internet, resulting in changes made to the lives of average citizens.

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Introduction

Issues have been rising since the introduction of computers and Internet. This essay will review the impacts that telephone and television has created in people’s lives and to justify the social impacts as well as the changes in work pattern brought on by the Internet, resulting in changes made to the lives of average citizens. The focus is placed towards the changes in social and work patterns over the past decades. Arguments are placed on whether it is benign or harmful towards people’s lives. Computers and Internet are utilized in many different ways and for many purposes. The changes that could be better or worse brought towards individual’s lives depend on individual’s usage of the Internet.

Impacts of Telephone and Television

The introduction of telephone and television has brought changes to people’s lives. Telephone enhanced social involvement through enabling effective communication. It was a different issue for the television although it served educational purposes, it created the opportunity for people to isolate themselves. Hence the cons of television include the fact that people had diminished physical and psychological health, which is similar to the impact that the Internet has brought currently. Television proved to be an issue back when it was first introduced, due to the issues of violence formed. Its acceptance was based on educational and entertainment reasons.

Internet Paradox

The Internet paradox is conceived to be a social technology that reduces people’s social involvement and imposes a decline in psychological well being through creating boredom and unhappiness. Internet has concurrently changed work patterns hence making it similar to the usage of television. The Internet has provided four values that people want, which are information access, commerce, entertainment and communications respectively. (Johnson, J. 1997) Although the Internet provides advantages like entertainment, education, increment in technical skills, easy information retrieval and communication, the existence of the problem is caused by the opportunity for individuals to isolate themselves.

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Communication is the most widely used with the Internet, through using chat rooms and electronic mails to expand social contacts and to communicate with family and friends. With Internet communication, individuals are able to reduce difficulty of coordinating interaction and concurrently save costs on distant communication with new and existing contacts.

Pros of the Internet are that it creates better social relationships, which is similar to the functions of the telephone. It removes distance constraints and abolishing isolation. People unite on the basis of possessing common interest and creating the chance in increment in skills and confidence ...

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