Monday, March 4, 2013

TOELF Essay

8. Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? The invention of the Internet has had negative effects on your civilization. Use specific reasons and examples to support your opinion.

            Nowadays, Internet has slowly become a part of human's life. We can even say that it is one necessary part of some people's body  too. However, many people claim that the invention of the Internet has had negative effects on our civilization. Many say that it is a genesis of many diseases too since people lack exercise. I think this is quite true.

            First of all, Internet has become something really important in our life. It can entertain people and cause them to be delectable. Most people concern only its benefits, so there is heedless attention to its negative effects. Since people spend more and more time surfing on the Internet, they don't really spend a lot of time exercising. More people are working through Internet. So, they don't need to walk upstairs and downstairs to reach people in the different floors. This is also true for sending documents. And due to this lack of exercises, it is a jeopardy to many diseases like obesity or diseases related to joints.

            Also, there are many news about the larceny of personal information through the Internet. This can be really dangerous for people who are not aware of it and put personal information in the social network. Recently, many people's personal information are hacked through Twitter. This will be worse if the hackers get the credit card numbers or passwords. Not only the credit cards numbers and password will be stolen, some people's social network accounts are hacked. The hackers hack these account and may post some information or things that are not appropriate. These things can ruin people's creditability. 

            Many people are also addicted to online games too. With Internet, they can play any game they want and these online games are very addictive. A lot of people are spending more than half of their days in front of the computer to play online games. Not only teenagers get addicted to theses games, adults do too! These habits can engender bad eye sight. And with more developed Internet, books become obsolete. Although reading too many books can also engender bad eye sight, it's still better than looking at the computer screen all day.

            To recapitulate, I do think that the invention of Internet has had many negative effects on human civilization. People spend less time being outdoor and exercising. They also don't really get to be in touch with other family members and people. Some personal information can be stolen through Internet and people still get addicted to using it. Books, too, become old-fashioned. They are all resulted by the invention of Internet. However, not so many people concern about this. They still care more about the advantages of the Internet and just ignore its side effect which may cause more trouble then we think. So, we should concern more about using it.