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The Internet has caused vast changes in our world as we know it. Some of these changes are wonderful and others are frightening.

The Internet can be compared to a scalpel. You can use it to heal. Or you can use it to kill. It depends on who you are.

GOOD THINGS RESULTING FROM THE INTERNET

Here’s some of the good things that the Internet has brought to us:

• New opportunities to earn money before that did not previously exist
• Peer to peer lending – loans direct to consumers that do not involve the traditional banking system
• Presidential candidate websites
• Greater political information
• Lowering of long distance prices
• Greater health information, and more reliance on personal power for getting well
• Global society – interact with many of other cultures, and hopefully gain knowledge from them and a broader perspective
• Information from many channels cannot be so easily controlled
• Read articles that you wouldn’t find in the library
• Be more up-to-date than with printed materials
• Instant interaction
• FInd out a reputation on a business
• More religious and spiritual options
• Competitive shopping options, lowering consumer prices
• Collaboration on ideas
• Publish your thoughts and ideas to a global audience for next to nothing
• Find more resources than the value of your internet connection that you pay for
• Choose what you will be involved in, as opposed to a TV that is pre-programmed
• Find many freebies
• Find resources for your business
• Largely uncensored information
• Many oppportunities exist for promoting your ideas through social networking and social bookmarking
• Make a difference in someone’s life – someone you haven’t met yet
• Through some websites you can fund entrepreneurs in developing countries with loans
• Have good friends that you haven’t met yet
• More and more ways to earn money at home
• New millionaires being created
• Contact people from all over the globe
• Sell items
• Find information
• Connect with resources
• Find health information
• Connect with people with the same interests and issues
• Easily check and compare local gas prices
• Easily check and compare supermarket sales
• Print coupons to save money
• Find discount codes and new promotions

DANGERS OF THE INTERNET

Here are some of the dangers and annoyances of the Internet:

• Teens spending time alone on the Internet without supervision encounter more than they should know
• Teens meeting up with strangers and being raped and worse
• Any adult meeting someone they didn’t intend and getting their personal safety compromised
• Children who use the Internet could grow up too fast
• Scams : many con artists prey on the gullible
• Intensification of a person’s negative qualities
• Removal of inhibitions
• Fraud
• Stalkers
• Trolls – people who cause problems on websites on purpose
• Hackers
• Flames – things written to make people mad
• Forwards which are sent to people who don’t have time
• Spam – an inconvenience, and most spam advertises scams
• Paying for merchandise but never receiving it
• Viruses, trojans, and keyloggers downloading onto your computer
• Personal information out on the web can lead to danger
• The difference between the HAVES and the HAVE NOTS: the people who have Internet and the people who don’t
• Identity theft
• Sexual exhibitionism
• Payday loans being advertised all over the place, threaten to financially ruin consumers with their high APRs
• Proliferation of credit card offers on the Internet
• Internet addiction
• Saying things about your employment could get you fired
• Downloading illegal music or software could get you sued
• Libel

CONCLUSION

If you are intelligent, wise, and discerning, the Internet is a good place to be and can make you a successful person.
If you are gullible, needy, obsessive, an over spender, a pervert, a con artist, and would give someone your personal financial information if they asked, you should stay off the Internet because it will cause you more problems than it will help.

Whether the Internet is good or bad for you and for the people who are around you depends on who you are.

In general, the Internet has brought many good things to the world.