There are many benefits to the Internet that have been seen over the years by people, organizations, and businesses. The Internet has transformed how people interact with one another, keep up on world events or even things going on at home. It has changed how people find work, changed how they shop and for some the Internet has gone as far as changed how they date and fall in love. Thanks to the Internet organizations and businesses have found new ways to advertise and keep in touch with members/customers.
This class, for instance, wouldn’t be possible without the Internet, and without the Internet you might not know of as many restaurants around town or have access to as many coupons that attracted you to certain businesses to begin with. The Internet has empowered the individual to find a job and apply to it on their terms, without ever setting foot in the establishment they hope to be apart of. It may not have looked great if a timestamp was available with my application, but I applied to a job online at 2 in the morning and after one interview was hired.
This doesn’t go without saying that there are some drawbacks to the Internet, new dilemmas that most people probably weren’t expecting as they were first getting online in the 1990’s. With the boom of social networking in the 2000’s, more and more personal information was beginning to be posted online. Two of the biggest social networking sites circa 2007 were Facebook and Myspace, and both had a private and public setting, but as expected there were quite a few users that were utilizing the Internet almost exclusively for social networking, and had little experience with some of the dangers present with a community that could be as anonymous as the online community.
Some of these people weren’t even aware of the privacy features available with Myspace or Facebook, and as a result, some people ended up being victims of cyberbullying, others may have been passed over by would-be employers due to the sort of content they posted online, which was picked up by a pre-screener prior to the individual even being contacted for a possible interview. Other inconviences the Internet has brought us is the plight of computer viruses and programs known as keyloggers, which, if installed on your machine, can record each keystroke you’ve made and send said information to someone that’s hoping to make use of your credit card, or to gain access to your bank account online, or a multitude of other alarming unscrupulous activities.
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