WORK DONE BY:DIANA OLIVEIRA DA SILVA CULTURA,LINGUA E COMUNICAÇÃO ESTRANGEIRA -

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Before the widespread internetworking that led to the Internet, most communication networks were limited by their nature to only allow communications between the stations on the local network and the prevalent computer networking method was based on the central mainframe computer model.

• This includes the rise of near instant communication by electronic mail (e-mail) text based discussion forums, and the World Wide Web.

Advantages Communication: Today for better communication, we can avail the facilities of e-mail; we can chat for hours with our loved ones. There are plenty messenger services in offering. With help of such services, it has become very easy to establish a kind of global friendship where you can share your thoughts.

Information is probably the biggest advantage internet is offering. The Internet is a virtual treasure trove of information. The search engines like Google, yahoo is at your service on the Internet. Students and children are among the top users who surf the Internet for research. During 1998 over 20 million people reported going online to retrieve health information

Disadvantages Theft of Personal information If you use the Internet, you may be facing grave danger as your personal information such as name, address, credit card number etc.

Pornography: This is perhaps the biggest threat related to your children’s healthy mental life. There are thousands of pornographic sites on the Internet that can be easily found and can be a detrimental factor to letting children use the Internet.

Most readers won't be surprised to learn that two of the fastest selling products on the Internet are pornography and gambling. Advertisements for the latest on-line casino flood our mailboxes and newsgroups, and it's difficult to browse too far on the web without finding a link the the latest "hot XX" site.

Another issue is the distribution of material that is completely illegal, no matter how old the viewer. Essentially, the problem seems to be one of keeping the Internet as unrestricted as possible, to maximize its potential, while ensuring that people are not given access to material that they wouldn't be allowed to access elsewhere.

Several possible solutions exist. The most obvious and heavy-handed is legislative censorship: simply ban certain types of material. Of course, this raises moral and ethical issues of censorship itself, but there is another, more practical objection.

The current solution is self-regulation, where the providers of adult-oriented products and services work to restrict access to their own material. There are several reasons why this is a better solution. The vast majority of such sites are physically situated in the United States, which has fairly strict laws governing the distribution of pornographic material to minors

The Internet is not a safe place, in the same way that a knife is not safe.

I think the Internet is dangerous for the children. But we can watch the news, listen to music, play games and many other things.