The Internet And The Internet

There is no question that the Internet is by far one of the greatest inventions of all time. The internet has allowed us to connect with other across the world and research information on a wide range of subjects and topics, whether scholarly or just for entertainment. Without the Internet, it can be argued that we would be nowhere near as advanced as we are today technologically wise. Even though the Internet has presented us with many positives, they are people who use it to negatively affect others. Online harassment has been a gradually increasing issue for years and is now more present than ever before. With technology and the Internet constantly advancing, online harassment is becoming more sophisticated than it has in recent years. If we go back a few years ago, online harassment was just simply cyber-bullying. People teased and made fun of other people through social media outlets, emails, etc. Now online harassment has advanced to people hacking others social media accounts for their personal phone numbers and emails. The fact of the matter is that now actions online can now affect real life aspects.

In a world where information can be easily accessed with a quick web search and where online networking plays a huge role in present-day communication, many educators and employers are urging students and potential hires to think twice before posting. The reason for this is that the mistreatment of internet sources has consequences. Issac Gilman– an assistant professor and Communications and Research Librarian at Pacific University – evaluated how the misuse of online sources could harm a student’s professional and academic life. In Gilman’s article Online Lives, Offline Consequences: Professionalism, Information Ethics, and Professional Students, it is clear that a plague of plagiarism persists in the modern world and that the effects of certain social media posts are often neglected. While teachers and other adults should prepare students for the potential risks of engaging in academic dishonesty and social media misuse, students must take it upon themselves to be aware of how their online actions can affect their lives and take precautions as needed.

Although, the internet has only been around for 20 years, it is sincerely very hard to imagine a life without it. We are constantly using it in our everyday life. At school work, home. We use it to “be foraging in the Web’s info-thickets reading and writing e-mails, scanning headlines and blog posts, watching videos and listening to podcasts, or just tripping from link to link to link.”( Carr, 3) It has become such a big part of our everyday lives that not been able to connect with it is like living in the desert. And it has taught us how to do things in many different ways, such as studying.

In modern society, it is not uncommon for people to have access to the internet. Whether one has access to the internet at home or at their local library, nearly everyone in this day and age

Although the internet has only been around for twenty years, it has become very hard to imagine a life without it. We are constantly using it in our everyday life. At school, work, and home. We use it to “be foraging in the Web’s info-thickets reading and writing emails, scanning headlines and blog posts, watching videos and listening to podcasts, or just tripping from link to link to link.” (Carr, 3). It has become such a big part of our everyday life that not being able to connect with it feels like living in the desert. Not just that but it has taught us how to do things in different ways, such as studying.

Anti-social, drop in grades, eye damage these are some of the topics that are brought up in conversation when talking about the use of the internet and how long teenagers are using it. But do they mention the pros of using the internet?

The internet is a place where people access a world wide web of information. Internet neutrality otherwise known as net neutrality, states that all information is always accessible to the person who wishes to use it. In recent times, major internet service providers have put their lobbyists into overdrive to push the government to end net neutrality. If net neutrality were ended, then the internet as we know it would change dramatically. The presence of net neutrality is important to protect not only our internet experience, but our first amendment right to free speech.

As a mechanism designed specifically for the most efficient and effective transfer of data as possible, the internet has been built in to modern life. Most individuals in the developed world and many in developing countries rely on it for day to day activities, using it more as a utility than as a good. As such, implementing policy that increases the difficulty of one’s ability to access it essentially changes the way that people live their lives without expressed consent. Moreover, inaction on the part of the Government will effectively create policy that coercively changes the way the social and economic aspects of society interact. Traditionally, governments have been viewed as having just cause under the social contract to intervene under the social contract in order to regulate access to utilities. In the United States, through which most internet traffic moves, this point is extremely important.

The internet is not largely owned, controlled or owned by governmental bodies. The internet however receives indirect government support through federally funded academic facilities providing some network related services. This raises a question in the appropriate long-term role played by the government in the continued evolution of the Internet. There are some areas in which the government input in the Internet is vital although most of the Internet interests are left to the private sector.

The Internet has been around since the 1960’s, though it was not until 1995 that the last restrictions on its use to carry commercial traffic were removed. The World Wide Web (WWW) was created in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist at CERN. Initially, it was used primarily by university-based scientific departments or physics laboratories; it was not until everyone that could afford a computer and the price of dial-up/ broadband became reasonable enough that most of the United States could access the World Wide Web. We live in a connected society, the world is at your fingertips with a smartphone; you can watch a video on YouTube, keep up with friends by text or social media, check the weather, latest news or sports headlines. However, with the introduction of the Internet, it has become easier to bully, harass and even steal from others. There are even websites that tell you how to become Internet Famous; the only way to become famous before YouTube and the Internet were traditional media: newspapers, TV, and word of mouth. Internet Fame, however, has its downsides. One problem of living in a connected society is that anyone can become famous for many reasons: a video went viral of a “Police Officer telling an Uber Driver that it’s illegal to film them”. Some people responded that the Uber Driver was in the wrong for not following the direction of the officer, and for others, the Uber Driver was a hero for standing up for his rights. Due to the publicity on the

Knowledge is power, and in order to obtain this we must first go through the process of learning. People learn in many different ways and they use man different sources. The main learning references that are used in today’s generation are the internet, literature, and people.

Does the internet seclude us to our own little world, or does the internet open up the world to us? The internet being somewhat new allows us to have access to an abundance of information through out the world. Having this access allows us to educate and be more aware of what is going on around us, not isolate us to one group according to our beliefs or make us narrow minded. Being able to talk with people across the world at our finger tips has given us one touch access to meet many new people and interact in ways never possible before the internet. The internet provides a wealth of information and gives us the opportunity to connect with others in the world.

Internet is getting more advanced. People over the world have access to the Internet at their home that allows them to be educated, to communicate with families and friends from far distance, and to be entertain by movies. Colleges, hospital, and other public places also provide free Internet for people to use. Internet makes it possible for people to share their knowledge of education and their experimental around the world. Teachers across the world can communicate with each other better than before all because of Internet. Some people may argue that Internet has negatively effects students’ personal life and distracted them from finishing their assignments. Although the Internet can be distracting if it not used wisely but no matter

The age of technology continues to grow each and every day with new programs and devices that are invented. The sharing of files today is very common for both infringing and non-infringing reasons. Many websites contain files that are illegal to distribute for free, but they easily get away with it. Attempting to catch a specific person who violates the copyright laws is very difficult with the tools available today. The Internet is becoming a gateway to both legal and illegal information, which will continue to grow.

How often does one find himself checking the Internet for directions? How easy has the ability to find answers to questions become? How hard is the opportunity to check one’s Internet to pass up? Why has the Internet become an every day, every hour part of life? With the capabilities of the Internet and what one can spend his time doing on the Internet, the questions about the future of the Internet’s affects on its users continues to grow rapidly. The use of computer technology in the classroom is growing to be a major concern for parents and educators all over. How much time should children be allowed to browse on the Internet? Is the Internet affecting the children’s, the future of society, ability to focus? Should parents and educators