Pros and Cons for Kids’ Internet Use Studies Show Mix of Potential Benefits and Risks When Kids Go Online By Miranda Hitti WebMD Health News Reviewed by Louise Chang‚ MD May 1‚ 2006 -- The Internet may be a help or a hazard when kids go online‚ new research shows. Some of those risks and benefits are highlighted in a special issue of the journal Developmental Psychology. Among the findings: * Message boards about self-injurious behavior (such as cutting) included social support and risky
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ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF USING INTERNET In the history of mankind‚ the Internet is the greatest development in the domain of communication industry. Internet has tremendous potential and a lot to offer in terms of services. We can notice advantages and disadvantages of using Internet. In the beginning we can indicate some advantages. At first‚ Internet is a source of information. There is a huge amount of information available on the Internet for just about every subject known to man‚
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Angelica Anne A. Vermug IV- St.Rita27 Almost all of us know that there’s a big difference between cyber friends and real life friends. Many people think that these two both have the same level of friendship. Unlike those people‚ I think that having real friends that you personally see and talk with is priceless and irreplaceable. There’s is nothing more beautiful than great relationships with your friends whom you personally share stories with.
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Not long ago people took the time to get to know a person whom he or she had just met. In years past‚ for a person to claim he or she had a relationship they would invest time in building that relationship. Years ago when people spent time together they paid attention to those they were with‚ they socialized and interacted with other human beings in a real life environment. The technology today has provided many ways to interact with others via cell phones; computers and PDA’s‚ just to name a few
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Digital Footprints What Is Your Digital Footprint? Your digital footprint is everything on the Internet that’s about you. This could include your profile on Facebook or MySpace‚ photos that you or your friends & family have posted online‚ as well as anything you have ever written on discussion boards‚ blogs or anywhere else. • Are you aware of your own digital footprint? • Is there anything online that you wouldn’t want a prospective employer to see? Other people‚ including potential
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In the article “what’s the Matter with kids today?” Amy Goldwasser discusses the issues this generation of kids. Goldwasser makes some logical arguments of the benefits of technology in the lives of kids. She touches on the emotional aspect of kids and how social technology plays a part in their lives. Goldwasser started her article talking about some studies and quotes on some of the problems with this generation’s children. She also talks a bit about the fact that this is the first generation in
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Nowadays‚ we frequently read the words in the newspapers‚magazines or on the Internet‚ like "PK" dinosaurs" and so on. These are all Internet slang terms. Whether to allow or forbid these terms in news and formal documents has become a hot topic as the ban is introduced in Shanghai. The public holds different views on the regulation. From where I stand‚ as the inevitable result of social development，Internet slang should not be banned in news and formal documents. Firstly‚ many Internet slang terms
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The greatest invention ever Out of the 6‚973‚738‚433 people who currently live in the world‚ how many people use the internet? According to Internet world stats‚ in the year 2011‚ thirty two percent of the world population used the internet in their everyday lives. After a year had past‚ more teenagers and elders started to use the internet to communicate research and watch the news. This great invention by Tim Burners-Lee had become a part of us‚ something our teenagers cannot survive without-
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Long Distance Relationship Relationship is built when a man and a woman want to make a commitment between them and hope to make their relationship last forever. Everything will bee done in order to make their relationship keep going until marriage. On the other side‚ there is a kind of relationship between people who live separately far away but they keep having relationship between them in the name of love‚ trust‚ and faith. That kind of relationship we call it long distance relationship. Not
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Thinking about the “Like” Culture By Husnain Khan In Neil Strauss’ article “The Insidious Evils of ‘Like’ Culture”‚ he clearly explains that he does not like the “like” culture‚ he states that surfing through social networking sites such as Facebook‚ Twitter‚ Tumblr‚ etc has changed us as human beings‚ we regularly spend 4 to 5 hours on the computer looking‚ trying to take all the information we get off the internet‚ and make statuses about it‚ like it’s our own. Strauss say’s that the “like”
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