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THE PRONS AND CONS OF INTERNET AND WORLD WIDE WEB

Internetworking is a process that involves connecting two or more distinct computer networks via a common routing technology. The result is called an internetwork and finally shortened to internet . Thats how the term came from. Whenever the World Wide Web is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet.

The World Wide Web was created in 1989 by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, working at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland and released in 1992. Since then, Berners-Lee has played an active role in guiding the development of Web standards and in recent years has advocated his vision of a Semantic Web. The internet and World Wide Web are seriously connecting when every time we talk about digital connecting.

The impact of the Internet is greater than any other communicative tool in the history of mass communications. From the Internet World Statistic website, Malaysia has 14.9 Million people that using internet and we are the 9th ranking of 10 Asian country. The internet user to ascend everyday suitable with the lower monthly subscription payment that provide by TM net, Maxis and Celcom.

The internet also bring the pros and cons to ours life. One of the biggest advantages of the Internet is that it is essentially unlimited by space or time. Your

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message is available 24 hours a day and seven day a week. The Internet allows an organization to be discovered by millions of people all across the world. Every each information can be surf through the website. Its can be done with the search engines like Google and yahoo. There is a huge amount of information available on the internet like a government law and services, entertainment, trading, information, new ideas and technical support and so on. Youngsters like to download the mp3 and movie form the website. The website usually practicing the sharing between each user of the internet. Sometimes its become in illegal for the copyright.

The Internet is also a more immediate form of communication. Web sites, online newsletters, bulletin boards and other forms of Internet communication can be updated at any second. All information and news is up to date. The example such as Berita Harian Online, Bernama Online and The Star Online.

Another advantage of practicing public relations on the Internet is the low cost, speed and ease of distribution. Many public relations practitioners see the Internet as the way to go because the technology is ripe, economic barriers to enter are low and there are almost no regulatory hurdles. These factors have contributed to the growth and the popularity of the Internet.

The advent of the Internet and the popularity of personal computers presented both an opportunity and a challenge for the banking industry. Online banking isn't

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out to change your money habits. For years, financial institutions have used powerful computer networks to automate millions of daily transactions.

Do you think how the online banking can help u at the late night when suddenly your phone is out of prepaid? Why dont use your computer and connecting the internet and login to your online banking such as Maybank2u.com. Buy the prepaid and pay the utilities bill while having your precious time with family!. Its totally different with your traditional ways.

Nowdays, people like to seat front of computer and have what their need with online shopping. This is the process that consumers go through to purchase products or services over the Internet. For example, an online shop like Amazon.com, Ebay.com and Lelong.com.my provide the services to buy new and used item. Beside that, internet can help user to shop without to go the shopping mall and bring a lot of maoney. The transaction can be paid with credit card, money transfer or using the PayPal. PayPal allows businesses and consumers to send and receive secure online payments via email. The most popular of internet using is online chatting. Chatting mean is talking to other people who are using the Internet at the same time you are. Usually, this communication is the exchange of messages requiring one site as the repository for the messages and a group of users who take part from anywhere all over the world. From chatting, social interaction can be happened. Late 1980, the Internet Relay Chat or IRC was designed for internet user. The chatting medium was having revolution through the technology development. Now we can have Yahoo

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messenger, Skype and Gmail to have an advanced social interaction via internet. This advanced technology bring the user with no cost to have a communication with the people over the country. The phone using can be minimized because the chatting tools also can make a free call to other parties.

From the advantages we see about the internet, they absolutely will bring disadvantages to us. First, when using the internet, you will be expose with the theft of personal information. How this can be done? Someone will send the Spyware into your computer system and watching your activities like login to online banking. Its will stealing your password and send the information to the hackers.

Internet user also got a problem with spamming. Spamming is refers to sending unwanted e-mails in bulk, which provide no purpose and needlessly obstruct the entire system they can jam networks and choke up mailboxes. You have to control this junk email with stop these activities. Dont try to reply the e-mail because sometime the spammer send the virus or spyware through e-mail. But, every email provider likes Yahoo! Have their own security system to identify and separate the junk e-mail to bulk or spam folders.

Virus is the most dislike happened to the computer. Virus is nothing but a program which disrupts the normal functioning of your computer systems. Computers with connecting internet get the high risk to have the virus. Virus usually slowing down your computer and make your computer hang. Suddenly your computer will restart. Its will disturb your works. The popular virus is Trojan,

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Pornography stills the problem to our society. Free pornography picture and film can be downloading through internet. They usually using the software like torrent and sharing software for download. This is perhaps the biggest threat related to your childrens healthy mental life. Parents have to aware with this matter. Now, they have software to lock and prevent the children to enter the pornographic website.

Finally, the very tough problem we have to face in Malaysia right now is provocation, slander, havoc and sensitive issue. This issue is bringing through the blog and forum. Malaysian, through Section 3 Communications and Multimedia Act 1998, Nothing in this act shall be construed as permitting the censorship of the internet. The law was gazettes for the agreement between government and MSC Company, which is government cannot prevent the open sources from the internet. Many have often misused such a freedom to express their opinion and information to against the government. Bloggers should be responsible when writing controversial issue and knowing very well the issue their bring because the internet is public domain. The conclusion is internet give us such various information we need. For me its really helpful when I have to do my daily work. Its depended for us to selected and research the information we receive. We also have to alert when using the internet to prevent our privacy data from steal by the hackers.

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INTERNET REFERENCE http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web

BOOK REFERENCE Internet and the world wide web - Introduction To Mass Communication Media Literacy & Culture, 5th edition by Stanley J.Baran The Media Internet by Michael Pelusey and Jane Pelusey Laws of Malaysia - Section 3 Communications and Multimedia Act 1998 ( amend to 1/1/2006 )

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