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The Dangers of the Internet


Over the past centuries, technologies have evolved constantly and have changed the way we communicate with each other.
Printing and Telegraph
Telephone and newspaper
Radio and television.
All techniques have begun social revolutions. We now live in one of these revolutions,
A humble beginning in 1962 began with an almost boring idea,
They connect the computers together.
Today, almost 3 billion people are connected.
But, what kind of revolution do we live now?
First: fast, it took 25 years after the arrival of the Kotenberg printer
Until the first English book is printed.
In its first 25 years, the phone reached only 10% of America’s population.
In 1995, less than 1% of the world’s population was connected.
The first billion in 2005 and the second billion in 2010
And the third at the end of 2014.
The benefits of the Internet are clear and all around us.
In a broad European poll, people put the Internet at the top of their daily priorities
– Bath, car and television.
But the risks and risks are less clear and more subtle.
There are at least four:
First, we are addicts.
In the United Kingdom, two in five of us note that we spend a lot of time online,
But we recognize that we can not stop.
Three out of five of us check the internet for the first thing in the morning and the last thing at night –
This habit places priority on communication in personal relationships.
Two out of every five women say that one of the biggest challenges in personal relationships
They have become proving to be more interesting than the smart phones of their companions.
Nine out of ten people prefer surfing the Internet rather than reading a book.
Internet pornography has shown its appeal in particular:
Sixty percent of American adult males admit to using it at least once a month.
Nine percent of the males themselves report spending 10 to 20 hours a week on pornographic movies!
We have not created a neurotic to resist the temptations on the Internet.
This fits a large number of Internet companies well.
Second: We know a lot but understand little.
The amount of information at our disposal is unimaginably large;
Every minute of every day, Facebook users share about 2.5 million content.
Twitter users are around 300,000 times.
YouTube users upload 72 hours of video.
Sending 200 million emails,
Apple users download about 50,000 applications.
5 GB of data were created between the advent of civilization and 2003.
This information is being generated every two days.
There is so much information that we need to create new words to describe them all the time.
The most recent term is the outbeat.
This amount of data is huge and stifling.
To look for an alternative approach, we must rely on search engines.
Google runs 2.5 billion searches a day.
However, we have forgotten that these search engines are very automated and biased in their performance.
They repeatedly draw our attention to their products, sponsors and subsidiaries.
A lot of information is meaningless.
During the riots in London in 2011,
The three most frequent stories on Twitter were the burning of the eye of London, the presence of soldiers on the streets, and the escape of a tiger from the London zoo.
Because the Internet is often a source of reliable information, we exaggerate its accuracy, importance and wisdom.
The twelfth most popular question written in the Google engine is: What should I do in my life?
He does not know, although at the same time –
Holds the dialogues you might have with the only person who knows:
It is precisely: you!
Third: Privacy under threat.
We track thousands of cookies wherever we go.
Our phones record our movements every five seconds, even if they are apparently closed.
The head of the French police force wanted to say: It is almost impossible now to commit a crime and not to be discovered.
We always leave so-called digital dots behind our web-based moves.
Every year in the UK we leave an estimated £ 5,000 in data online.
Which are then sold to marketing companies and harvested, purified and matched to provide a detailed view of our lives.
Facebook will know that you are gay before you know your mother.
Seventy percent of us acknowledge their fear of what we have already shared.
One out of seven teenagers in the United States sends a shameful image over the Internet
He talks sexually with a stranger.
Most European Internet users are confident that the security services are spying on their conversations and activities.
IV: Cyber ​​Crime is out of control.
Crime has fallen in several countries over the past 20 years.
Crime has fallen by 60% in the UK since its rise in 1995.
Cyber ​​crime, however, has soared.
The National Society for the Prevention of Violence against Children was estimated in 1990
That there are about 7,000 pornographic images of children widely spread.
In 2014, US law enforcement forces discovered 42 million images in only one server.
The British government estimates that about 50,000 people in the UK are involved in the load
And sharing photos of child molestation.
Electronic victimization and hate speech are prevalent:
In Twitter, 10,000 expressions of racism appear every day.
And 2,000 sentiments containing the word “rape”.
In the United Kingdom, 69% of young people are cyber-bullying
The police panicked.
The head of the British National Crime Agency recently said
That they were able to focus on less than 1% of users of child pornography sites.
In the end
One view is that modern technologies always bring concerns,
It is always clear that this is baseless.
In a letter to Plato, Socrates warned that Plato would encourage forgetfulness.
People will become “listeners to everything and will not learn anything.”
But this is more comfortable and optimistic than it is.
Technologies can bring lasting problems, as the citizens of Horshima have realized
The Internet offers unparalleled challenges to our ability to:
– Deep communication with our partners.
– Keeping our critical abilities alive.
– Stop thinking that answers are always there.
– Staying in touch with real people.
– and to make discoveries that come when we are burdened, and let our minds follow.
We need to start taking effective measures to educate our children about the dangers of this tool.
We reconnect with nature and talk to each other face to face.
Stop downloading photos of naked people, and ant and take digital rest.
We need to learn to adjust ourselves, not because the Internet is very bad,
But because it is precisely very well.
In ways that turn into a powerful harm to our ability to grow and work.
We can accept that it is not good to let a 15-year-old boy
He gets absolute permission – unchecked – to surf the Internet in his bedroom.
Not because of our belief that it is bad, but because we are generous.
We recognize that the request for restraint in such circumstances is very desirable.
The similar dispute applies if it happens and I am twenty-six or forty-six.
The Internet has an unmatched power in hindering everything that is more important and valuable than the things around us.
– Start with the rest of your life.
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