is called “Teenagers’ Internet Socializing Not a Bad Thing’ by Tamar Lewin. It was taken from the New York Times in November 2008. It talks about how teenagers are socializing online‚ which can be a good thing. The articles audience is mainly to the parents of teenagers‚ and their children‚ because its telling the parents not to be afraid if their children are ‘wasting time’ on the internet. The opinions expressed by the researchers in this article regarding Internet socializing‚ unlike what
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In class professors are using the Internet to upload lectures‚ notes‚ or other useful material. Students in class can then access the information outside of class‚ and even interact with the professor or other students regarding the content. Even if a class is missed‚ the notes are readily available to keep students up to date. Certain professors will even add video‚ or keep a podcast of their classes for download. One benefit the Internet brings to college is the availability of textbooks for significantly
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Internet Predators One in four US teen girls reported that they met strangers off the Internet. One in seven boys admitted they did as well. While most of these "Internet friends" turn out to be another teen or preteen‚ that ’s not always the case. Unfortunately‚ children are now dying at the hands of their Internet child molesters and‚ not all sexual exploitation of children occurs offline. These child molesters are blackmailing the children into performing sexual acts in the comfort of their
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Prior to the internet‚ the way people obtained their information was much different. Most people received their information from biased sources such as the television‚ radio‚ and newspaper. Most people did not have a way to access unbiased information because they were not able to research and go beyond what the media was saying. Because of this‚ people only knew what the media wanted them to know. As a result the information was limited‚ conflicting and less than helpful. Therefore‚ the democracy
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when it comes to how it affects their health and educational life. The Internet has also became a place where predators prey on innocent people. These predators are the people who you least suspect. The larger implication here is that there are more of a distraction in the world of web 2.0 and our demand to use it excessively will only lead to our downfall. This work increase our understanding of the negative effects of the Internet from the different aspects. These are Social Media and Facebook ‚ Gaming
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Today information is easily accessed thanks to the internet. Meanwhile‚ online courses are accessible to the students who are unable to attend traditional educational buildings because of health or other complications. It is a convenient way to study. Increase the popularity of distance learning With development of such inventions like the internet‚ the popularity with educational technology is growing every day. Nowadays it is one of the most preferred methods of learning. Traditional lessons have
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Cyber piracy: where the Internet is used to copy a digital document without authorization. Droppers: a program that when run will install a virus‚ Trojan horse or worm onto a hard drive‚ floppy disk or other memory media. Intranet: A network of networks that interconnects within a single widespread organization and uses the Internet Protocol (IP). Hierarchy: IM-Instant Messaging: IM is a software utility that allows users connected to the Internet to send text messages and files between other
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Theft is the action of stealing something that belongs to someone else‚ but what if that which is stolen is never actually taken? The debate over what is to be done about a current issue involving “internet piracy” has been a hot topic in several countries‚ including the United States. The issue at hand is a claimed figure that allegedly spans upwards of 250 billion dollars translated to American currency in losses on behalf of several international multimedia franchises according to statistics
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Anonymity on the internet Everybody can go on the internet and mostly also write what they want. Most people write comments about other people or about for example businesses. The most comments aren´t nicely because the people who write on the web do it often anonymous so they can write everything they want. Anonymity on the internet might be good for the world. + It´s a good thing that people can be anonymous on the internet because than they can write whatever they want. For example‚ if somebody
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Internet has been the fastest source of all kinds of information nowadays. We can just visit the net‚ type‚ click search then we can get what we need and learn what we consider as necessary in our life. Some even look up the latest news neither in the television nor in radio but instead in the internet already. Yes indeed it is one of the easiest and quickest ways to get news. But‚ the question is‚ is it accurate enough to believe? People in this generation are very dependent on the web because
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