The Impact of Internet on Our Society
The Impact of Internet on Our Society
Wong Yiu Cheung
The emergence of the Internet allows people in all over the world to share the information by connecting computers together. Its development has reached to carry the large numbers of data that we have not imagined before. It also brings impact on the real life by creating brand new tools, platforms, and attempts to satisfy people’s wants only when they are holding a device that can access to the Internet. The impacts are both positive and negative. This evolution has changed our society a lot in diverse aspect, shaping new forms of social interaction, activities and organizing, affecting language, culture, and ethics to our society. This article would focus on discussing how the new activities forms like E-commence, E-learning, and E-engagement make our life to be more open, convenient and efficient; and secondly how the Internet change the culture even distort the ethics in our society.
Doing business today is much different to a decade before. The differences are not just the demands and tastes of customers changed, but the formats of managing a company and the businesses exploration have also been changed. E-commence (Electronic commerce) are the electronic systems such as the Internet and other computer networks operating as a platform for buying and selling of products or services. Traditionally, if a company wanted to sell a product, it would ask the publisher of newspapers or magazines, or television and broadcasting station to advertise. Nowadays, the fast diffusion and high use of the Internet provide a high accessibility of the information. Customers can buy things through the company’s brilliant website by using online shopping cart and credit card to finish the transaction. For examples of Dell and Amazon.com., the transaction is conducted between businesses and consumers, it is referred to as business-to-consumer or B2C. On the other hand, when the transaction is conducted between
Wong Yiu Cheung
The emergence of the Internet allows people in all over the world to share the information by connecting computers together. Its development has reached to carry the large numbers of data that we have not imagined before. It also brings impact on the real life by creating brand new tools, platforms, and attempts to satisfy people’s wants only when they are holding a device that can access to the Internet. The impacts are both positive and negative. This evolution has changed our society a lot in diverse aspect, shaping new forms of social interaction, activities and organizing, affecting language, culture, and ethics to our society. This article would focus on discussing how the new activities forms like E-commence, E-learning, and E-engagement make our life to be more open, convenient and efficient; and secondly how the Internet change the culture even distort the ethics in our society.
Doing business today is much different to a decade before. The differences are not just the demands and tastes of customers changed, but the formats of managing a company and the businesses exploration have also been changed. E-commence (Electronic commerce) are the electronic systems such as the Internet and other computer networks operating as a platform for buying and selling of products or services. Traditionally, if a company wanted to sell a product, it would ask the publisher of newspapers or magazines, or television and broadcasting station to advertise. Nowadays, the fast diffusion and high use of the Internet provide a high accessibility of the information. Customers can buy things through the company’s brilliant website by using online shopping cart and credit card to finish the transaction. For examples of Dell and Amazon.com., the transaction is conducted between businesses and consumers, it is referred to as business-to-consumer or B2C. On the other hand, when the transaction is conducted between