The Internet Does More Harm Than Good

Thanks for the compliment. I will address your issues one at a time, and then I will go through my points. 1) Correlation Does Not Mean/Prove Causation. I agree with the above statement of correlation not necessarily proving or meaning causation. As for you claim about the Internet being more good than bad, I disagree with you. 2) Personal Development As for this I will address them each in letter format not to confuse with the number format I am using. a) We could find jobs before the internet existed. If anything, this causes more problems. Not everyone has the internet, or can afford the internet. Internet causes monthly charges and fees as we all know. Therefore, if anything, finding jobs has become more expensive. People could previously just get a newspaper, which is still plausible, and look for a job. b) Resumes can be submitted without the internet as well in person. Regardless, resumes are needed when going to a job interview. c) The same can be done with books. d) I would really like for you to explain your reasoning for gaining confidence via the internet. In my honest opinion, I would say it does the opposite. e) I agree with this. We also have telephones, mail, etc. There are several ways to connect with people. f) This I disagree with. Maybe some specific courses for College and what not, but not regular school. However, regular schools still exist. My main point above is that all the things the internet is doing that you are stating has already existed. As for the economy, I will agree it has benefited the economy. 3) Our world is working and has eliminated lots of negative aspects of the Internet. 3-1) Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012 is act put in place to reduce the amount of illegal activity on the internet. First thing I'd like to state is how this is only applied to the Philippines. It is not a world-wide thing. Also internet restrictions vary from country to country. a) Cybersquatting happens quite often. That's why many companies warn about only to use the login at such and such webpage. However, this is not a big point of mine, if anything it shows problems that exist within the internet. b) Cybersex is all over the internet. Don't believe me? Just type "live sex web cam" in any search engine and you'll get tons of websites that offer these services. c) Child pornography is being attacked I will agree with you, but what about regular pornography? I'll address it more later in my problems with the internet. d) I didn't know identity theft was a big issue within the internet. I don't have anything to argue about this. e) This is everywhere. Just for an example, . http://thepiratebay.se... 3-2) Both Windows, and Macintosh (including iOS) OS' have security features in place to protect, humans from Harmful and Illegal acts/uses online. Are you sure? Can you prove the limitations or the amount of protection it applies? For example, in Microsoft it has a block list for certain websites. This requires the specific website to be know. The child could easily bypass this like the child who bypassed Microsoft's Xbox password feature (web-link #1). I would like for you to cite the amount of security please. Those are my comments to everything you have stated. Now I am going to go with the problems that exist because of the internet. Resources: [1] . http://techcrunch.com... 1) Exercise There is a lack of exercise in today's society. Years ago when there were few electronic distractions such as video-games, internet, television, etc. , people resorted to other solutions for fun - physical activity. I would like to quote from web-link #1 - "The lack of physical activity due to the rise of new technology, especially the internet has also affected the increase of obesity in today's society. According to the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services, today one third of all adults are obese. 16 percent of children and teens are obese, a number which has tripled since 1980. ". So how does this correlate with the internet? Lets read the quote from web-link #2 - "The origins of the Internet date back to research commissioned by the United States government in the 1960s to build robust, fault-tolerant communication via computer networks. While this work, together with work in the United Kingdom and France, led to important precursor networks, they were not the Internet. There is no consensus on the exact date when the modern Internet came into being, but sometime in the early to mid-1980s is considered reasonable. From that point, the network experienced decades of sustained exponential growth as generations of institutional, personal, and mobile computers were connected to it. The funding of a new U. S. backbone by the National Science Foundation in the 1980s, as well as private funding for other commercial backbones, led to worldwide participation in the development of new networking technologies, and the merger of many networks. Though the Internet has been widely used by academia since the 1980s, the commercialization of what was by the 1990s an international network resulted in its popularization and incorporation into virtually every aspect of modern human life. " There we have a correlation of things such as the internet arriving in the 1980's and much more substantially used in our present time, with the rising number of obesity. It is not solely the internet to blame, video games and other things have causes these numbers to rise. However, the internet does contribute towards this trend as stated. Resources: [1] . http://search.yahoo.com... [2] . http://en.wikipedia.org... 2) Black markets These are illegal and are being taken down over time. I will admit to that. However, the internet has made it extremely easy to set one up. All you have to do is create a web page. There was a very famous one of these websites called the silk road. Check the resources out and you'll see how it was created (resource #1), as well as how it finally got stopped. They had tons of things for sale on their market, such as guns, drugs, etc. A more recent one is Bit coin. To quote from the web-link #2 - "In 2012, it was estimated that 4.5% to 9% of all transactions of all bit coin exchanges in the world were for drugs trades on a single deep web drugs market, Silk Road. [151] The bulk of bit coin purchases during the time were speculative in nature,[151] so drugs must have constituted a greater percentage of the actual goods purchased with bit coins c. 2012. Silk Road was shut by US law enforcement in October 2013 leading to a short-term fall in the value of bit coin. [152] Alternative sites were soon available, and in early 2014 the Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported that the closure of the Silk Road had little impact on the number of Australians selling drugs online, which had actually increased. [153] Several news outlets have asserted that the popularity of bit coins hinges on the ability to use them to purchase illegal goods. [154] Non-drug transactions were thought to be far less than the number involved in the purchase of drugs,[155] and roughly one half of all transactions made using bit coin c. 2013 were bets placed at a single online gambling website. [156] One source stated online gun dealers use bit coin to sell arms without background checks. [157] The bit coin community branded one site, Sheep Marketplace, as a scam when it prevented withdrawals and shut down after an alleged bit coins theft. [158] In a separate case, escrow accounts with bit coins belonging to patrons of a different black market were hacked in early 2014. [159]" The interesting thing about that quote is it refers back to the Silk Road which I talked about previously. Resources: [1] . http://en.wikipedia.org...(marketplace) [2] . http://en.wikipedia.org... There are other things I'd like to address, but I don't want your post to go over the Character limit.