Bad Effects of The Internet: Cyber Crime

Nowadays with the growth of internet usage among people, there are always bad effect of internet. One of the problems that always occur in internet is cybercrime or scam.

According to Brittanica.com cyber-crime also can be define as computer crime which the use of a computer as an instrument to further illegal ends, such as committing fraud, trafficking in child pornography and intellectual property, stealing identities, or violating privacy. Cybercrime, especially through the Internet, has grown in importance as the computer has become central to commerce, entertainment, and government.

Because of the early and widespread adoption of computers and the Internet in the United States, most of the earliest victims and villains of cybercrime were Americans. By the 21st century, though, hardly a hamlet remained anywhere in the world that had not been touched by cybercrime of one sort or another.

The first recorded cybercrime took place in the year 1820! That is not surprising considering the fact that the abacus, which is thought to be the earliest form of a computer, has been around since 3500 B.C. in India, Japan and China.

In 1820, Joseph-Marie Jacquard, a textile manufacturer in France, produced the loom. This device allowed the repetition of a series of steps in the weaving of special fabrics. This resulted in a fear amongst Jacquard's employees that their traditional employment and livelihood were being threatened.

They committed acts of sabotage to discourage Jacquard from further use of the new technology. This is the first ever recorded cybercrime. Today computers have come a long way, with neural networks and Nano-computing promising to turn every atom in a glass of water into a computer capable of performing a Billion opera...

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...ask their kids if they’ve been bullied online (as compared to 30% global average)

Teenagers didn’t expose enough about the new era of bully as they are actually a victim of cyber which contribute to the increase of cyber bully case. The level awareness among teenagers can be define as very low because lack of information pertaining this matter. Most of them only admit it after they cyberbully happen without any chance to prevent it.

Internet use and social networking occupies a great portion of the time of children as they move into teenage years. Although there are many benefits to Internet use, teenagers primarily log on to the Internet to socialize .As the quantity and popularity of social networking continues to rise, so do the opportunities for the misuse of technology. Because of this, cyberbullying is a phenomenon that is drastically increasing in prevalence.