Why the Positive Effects of Internet Use Outweigh the Bad - 7 views
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Before we get onto the positive effects of internet use, let’s start with these much touted negative side effects.
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Yingpeng Wu on 05 Dec 10reduction to absurdity
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Yingpeng Wu on 05 Dec 10before we talk about the positive effect, we first talk something about negetive.
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The same things were said about rock music when records were at their most popular, and about televisions when they were first invented.
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There are also positive effects of internet usage in business.
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anyone can make money online . With the ‘One Child One Laptop’ scheme that’s heading to Africa, and the large-scale attempts to provide the continent with a secure internet connection this could see one of the largest continents joining us online to share their views and earn themselves some money. This will give them access to all the education they could need as well as the resources they’d need to make the most of that. Many of them could see themselves working their way out of poverty – and online they can expect the same wages as other continents as its faceless nature eradicates discrimination. One of the positive effects of internet use then is that it could help some people in escaping from the poverty trap.
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Destroying industry and providing a place for these deviant ‘subcultures’ to converse? Those too are perhaps the most positive effects of internet use. These are the things that promise to change the way politics and business work forever and potentially usher in a new age of supreme democracy and resources. Granted, there are some sub groups online that we’d probably rather there weren’t, but at least if they’re online they can talk to each other and leave us alone. Other ‘subcultures’ however simply reflect different ways of thinking – and the internet gives them an open forum to freely express themselves, something that everyone has a right to do.