The Dangers Of Internet

 

Over the past centuries technologies of regularly come along that completely change how we connect to each other the printing press the telegraph the telephone the newspaper the radio the TV. Order technologies that begins social revolutions. We’re living through one such revolution now.

It started in 1962 with humble almost boring idea connecting computers together. Today almost 3000000000 people are connected. But what kind of revolution we going through. Firstly it’s fast. It took 25 years after the Gutenberg press arrived for the first English book to be printed. In its first 25 years the telephone reached just 10 percent of America. In 1995 less than 1 percent of the world’s population was connected the first 0 was which in 2005 the second 0 in 2010 and the third at the end of 2014.

The benefits of the internet obvious and all around us in the European white pole people put the internet at the top of the list of daily essentials ahead of the ball off the car in the television. But the risks and dangers are less obvious and more subterranean there are at least 4. One we would dictate. In the UK 2 in 5 of us recognize was spending too long on the internet but admit we called stop 3 and 5 of us check the internet the first thing in the morning and the last thing at night and put this habit ahead of interpersonal communication.

2 in 5 women say that one of the greatest challenges of relationships has become how to prove more interesting than the partners smart phone 9 out of 10 people would rather be surfing the web rather than reading a book internet **** has proved particularly compelling 60 percent of US adult males admit to using it at least once a month. 9 percent of males classify themselves spending between 10 and 20 hours a week on porn would not neurologically designed to withstand the temptations on offer online and the suits a great many internet companies just fine.

2 we know too much but understand too little the amount of information at our fingertips is unimaginably large every single minute of the day Facebook uses sha 2.5000000 pieces of content. Twitter users tweet 300000 times Yuchi abuses up late 70 2:00 hours of video 200000000 emails I sent an apple users download 50000. Between the dawn of civilization in 2035 exabytes of data was created that much information is now created every 2 days. There is so much data that we keep having to come up with new words to describe it the latest time is the gotta bite. This much data is overwhelming and asphyxiating. To maneuver we have to rely on search engines Google makes to the half 0 searches per day. But we forget that the search engines a mechanical and highly colored in their interpretations. For a start they constantly directory attention to that products that sponsors and their affiliates. A lot of the information is nonsense.

During the riots in London in 2011 the 3 most chat stories on Twitter with the London eye was on fire the army was on the streets in the Tyco to escape from London soon because the internet is often a source of reliable information we exaggerated accuracy its importance and its wisdom the 12 most popular question typed into Google is what should I do with my life. It doesn’t know but at the same time it constantly gets in the way of the conversations you might have with the one person who does. Namely you. 3 privacy is under threat. Thousands of cookies track us wherever we go on mobile phones look data about all movements every 5 seconds even when that ostensibly off the head of the French police force proposed it now almost impossible to commit a murder and remain undetected. We constantly leaving circle digital bread crumbs on all online travels every year in the UK we live up to 5000 pounds worth of data on line which is then sold to marketing companies and harvested filtered and cross reference to provide detailed insights into our lives.

Facebook will know you’re gay long before your mother tongues. 70 percent of us admit to fearing how much we’ve already shed one in 17 ages in the U. S. has sent a compromising image over the internet about a sexual trapped with a real life stranger the majority of European internet users are under the impression the security services Snoop into that conversations and activities. For. Online crime is out of control. Over the last 20 years crimes abated in many countries since it peaked in the UK in 1995 it’s fallen by 60 percent but internet crime is exploding. In 1990 the NSPCC estimated there were 7000 note images of child **** at launch.

In 2014 Americans or enforcement found 42 0 images on just 1 server. The UK government estimates of 50000 people in the UK are actively involved in downloading and sharing images of child abuse online abuse and hate speech or endemic on Twitter 10000 uses of racist slur terms of current day in 2000 tweets ascend containing the word rape. 69 percent of young people in the UK have experienced cyberbullying. The police are overwhelmed the head of the UK’s national crime agency recently said that they would only ever be able to focus on less than one percent of all child porn uses.

Conclusion.

One view is that new technologies have always portends  IT is with them and they always turn out to be groundless Socrates in Plato’s Phaedrus won’t books would promote forgetfulness. People would become the heroes of many things and will have lunch nothing. But that’s too rosy and too relaxed about what we’re facing technologies can and do bring serious lasting problems. As the residents of Hiroshima realized. The internet presents on rifle challenges to our abilities to interact deeply without partners keeper critical faculties a life stop thinking that the aunts is always like out there remain emotionally connected to real life people. And make the discoveries that come when we board and let our minds lie fallow we need to start to take active measures to educate our children in the dangers of this tool to reconnect with the natural world to talk to one another face to face. Stop downloading images of naked people to get bored and to take regular digital sabbaths we need to learn to control ourselves not because the internet is so bad. Precisely because it’s so very very nice in ways that turn out to be deeply detrimental to our ability to flourish into function.

 

We can accept that it’s not a good thing to let a 15 year old boy have unlimited access to the internet in his bedroom. No because we think he’s wicked but because which generous. We understand that asking for self control in those circumstances. It’s too demanding. A similar argument applies if you happen to be 26046. The internet has an unparalleled power to get in the way of almost every other important and precious thing around. Starting with the rest of your life.