Positive And Negative Effects Of The Internet On Human Interaction

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Introduction:

In our society nowadays we see the internet as an essential tool to carry out our daily activities. The internet has changed the way business, governments and humans interact. However, as the internet takes a bigger part of our daily lives we lose communication skills, suffer from distraction and have less direct contact with each other. In the following essay, the positive and negative effects of the internet on human interaction will be discussed. Some of the positive aspects include instant access to information, online education resources, and global communication. The negative effects include loss of human physical interaction, addiction, access to inappropriate content and large-scale misuse of the technology such cyber-bullying …show more content…

Social media allows us to communicate with people across the planet. Nowadays business people can conduct video conferences in other countries without the need of flying long distances for meetings. This way is faster and cheaper for people to communicate. The internet allows individuals to access a huge amount of information, such as newspapers and articles from different countries, within fractions of a second. According to www.statisca.com, there has been an increase in the number of internet users from one billion in 2005 to three and a half billion currently because now people have a greater access to computers or other technological …show more content…

According to research done in America by Netaddiction.com, children aged between 8 and 18 expend 44.5 hours per week in front of a screen5. Japanese Ministry of Health has reported that in a study conducted in 264 schools, 6% of students in grades 9 to 11 confirmed that they suffered from internet addiction and 9% of students in grade 12 also suffered from internet dependency5. The internet addiction is also linked to other important problems among young people such as obesity or depression. This type of behavior affects the way humans interact and

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