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Is the internet generally a good thing or a bad thing?
There are arguments on both sides.
However, in my opinion, the internet is basically an excellent thing for the world.
The internet is more and more important.
Of course, there are people who point out many bad things about the internet. For example, kids can find pornographic or horrible sites, if they are alone and search for things.
If you are on pages which are new for you, you can get a bad virus on your pc and then you cannot do anything, because it is damaged and you must repair it.
Again, you search for something you need for your homework and at school you notice that the information you got from the internet is wrong. So it often happens that a web-site give us facts that are lies.
The internet is a platform for perverts and a paedophiles. They share pornographic child movies or sell them for a lot of money.
People are often not truthful in chat-rooms and there are perverts in chat-rooms. They tell the kids, they are like Brad Pitt or somebody else who looks very nice. So the kids meet them with hope of getting a boyfriend who looks like a star. They do not think about the risk of meeting a person they do not know. Another reason against the internet is that the internet can be very expensive, because you must pay much money to download something or look for videos that are not allowed under eighteen years, for example.
On the other hand, though, there are lot of points in favour of the internet.
Here are just a few. First of all you can find everything you want to know.
You can find something about geography, history, or for school and university with the help of searching machines like google or yahoo.
Students and pupils are dependent on the internet, because they must do a lot of homework with help of the internet.
There are special pages only for students to share or sell good homework and paper.
Secondly you can buy nearly everything you want all around the clock comfortly at home.
Or you can sell things in a virtual auctionary house like ebay.
You can search for ways to go to places you never have been before.
Also you can have an e-mail address on web. de or mxn. de, for example.
So you can send messages and pictures very fast and without the mail.
It is very comfortable.
Further more there are people who cannot live without a personal computer.
The pc is everything for them. They only contact friends via internet, they only do shopping via internet and they are sharing music and movies.
Our own opinion is, that the internet is an extremely important medium and we cannot live without this possibility of finding things we need to know for school, university or work fast and around the clock.
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