There are always concerns about new technology. In your view, what are the possible benefits and problems attached to the Internet?

There are always concerns about new technology. In your view, what are the possible benefits and problems attached to the Internet? 

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In this essay I will be talking about the befits and the problems that are attached with the internet.There are many people that use the internet and the change from 1995 to 2013, A fifth of the world’s population can now go online. That figure that has risen worldwide from just 25 million in 1995 to 1.4 billion today. This shows that the internet

Their are many positive things that the internet provide us with. For example A fifth of the world’s population can now go online. That figure that has risen worldwide from just 25 million in 1995 to 1.4 billon today. This shows that they can access the information that is provided to them.

The good things about the internet is that every one has access to it. 

 Along with the good things that the internet provided, their are also problems as well. For example A fifth of the world’s population can now go online. That figure that has risen worldwide from just 25 million in 1995 to 1.4 billon today. This can be a problem due to the fact that they will be able to access lot of information. Information that is provided from the internet may not always be accurate. A 2005 study by Sonia Livingstone and Magdalena Bober found that the majority of students trusted online information as much as they trusted information in printed books 38% of UK pupils aged 9 to 19 never questioned the accuracy of online information and only 10% said they were sceptical of it 66% of 9 to 19 year old's who went online regularly had not been given any guidance about how to judge the accuracy of online information. This can be worrying as these are students how are most likely trying to find out

information on the internet for school work etc. If this information may not be accurate and if people find it to be as accurate as books then this will be a major concern. As students will be leaning inaccurate information

People miss use the internet 

one in six queries to search engines were about sex in 1997, but by 2001 the figure had fallen to one in 12 (Spink et al 2002)

Wikipedia can contain serious errors. For example in 2005,Wikipedia incorrectly stated that the journalist John Seigenthaler had been involved in the assassination of the US president John F. 

Tanya Byron in her review for the government on children’s use of the internet and videogames (2008) reported that 57% of 9-19 year-olds had come into contact with pornographic material online, 38% in the form of a pornographic pop-up advert

“Pareto’s Law” states that a minority of media producers always serve a majority of consumers. An example of this is 10% of the movies released in any given year account for roughly half the box office revenue, and just ten companies publish over 60% of all the books read.