Basics Assignment 1

ADVANTAGES OF INTERNET

• E-mail. You can use it to send files, pictures, and letters.

• Information. You can find information on EVERYTHING.

• Chat. If you have phone-aphobia, but still enjoy a nice conversation, and no one is around, you can chat! It's good for keeping up with people.

• Social websites. It's like e-mail, but bigger. Facebook and Twitter are probably the most famous (infamous?) out there at the moment. Social websites let you stay in contact with your friends, family, associates, etc. It's great for sharing pictures and letting people know what you're doing at every single part of the day!

• Shopping. Need a new DVD player, but can't find a good one where you live? No problem. Go to a store's website and view what they have, buy it, and they'll ship it to you. Need to sell an old iPod? You can sell that on the internet. Ebay is a popular one for that. Someone will buy your old iPod and you'll send it to them. Great thing about Ebay is the person buying your old iPod is the one who has to pay the shipping.

DISADVANTAGES OF THE INTERNET

• Social Websites. Those creepy kids in high school who add you and talk to you all the time makes facebook much much less fun. Or the people who post things every half hour. (I admit, I update my facebook status a few times a day. But not every half hour.) Then there are those people in Brazil and the Philippines who try to add you as a friend, and they don't even speak English!

• Information. Sometimes the information you get from the internet is completely false. Sometimes it's halfway true. You can't trust everything you read on it, so it's not reliable.

• Porn. It's pretty easy to accidentally come across it. A lot of people don't want to see it.

• Security. People can hack into websites. It's easy to find out personal information.

• Waste. Sometimes you can spend a lot of time on the internet, looking up things, playing games. You can waste away your day.