about the ethics on internet
It is not a secret that with the pass of the time and with the intense knowledge of the Internet, it has become a way of expression for many people of all ages and a form of communication that is impossible to avoid and so far necessary.
It has many advantages like allowing us to keep in contact with friends, relatives and colleagues around the world, at a reasonable cost, sometimes cheaper that a phone call or a letter sent by the local mail.
When trying to solve a problem or to do some investigation or any type of consultation you count with the possibility of exploring thousands of libraries and data bases of information at a world-wide level and in all the languages, having the advantage of accessing thousands of documents, newspapers, and programs as well as discussing any subject, from archaeology to zoology through the net.
We can also have access weather, political, economic information. We can have a virtual class and antivirus programs.
It is amazing what internet has brought to our lives. You can chat; go to a forum and share information and opinions in real time. On the Internet you are able to buy and sell articles at a good price and with the plus of having door to door service.
•With respect to a company it also has several advantages that help the trade, good development and knowledge of a company and whoever interested and in using a service, a device or only adquiring information of the company in order to have a successful.
•Other positives aspects its: Availability 24 hours to the day –7 days to the week – 365 Days to year
When there is anybody in the office, the clients can access the Web of the company. Webs never close.
Now everything can be measured: how many people have seen their spaces, how many people have clicked in them, how many people asked for more information or tariffs, how many sales one publicity have produced, how many pages have been consulted by the users? What selection of the Web is the most popular? What is the most common route? What is the most visited web page? How many people arrive for the first time and how many repeat?
Interchange of knowledge
It is possible to invite other people so that they contribute in the content of Web pages and blogs, to evaluate the products and services or give advice to other users, and then to contribute to them with publications of news bulletins.
Low cost
At the present time we can find companies lending of Internet that give very good prices by the use of their service on the net. It is enough with comparing the cost of sending 25.000 letters by conventional mail with the cost to sending 250,000 electronics mail.
This has advantages but also some disadvantages finding good information is as possible as finding bad one (pornography, violence, terrorism) that can to often affect specially to the child who can make use of the Internet without a authorization of them parents or tutors or without supervision of an adult.
When one begins to use the Internet and to know advantages that this has in our life and the way it makes our life easy, people can spend too much time in front a computer and becoming addicted doesn’t live the real and social life.
The students can effort less and have a bad use of it with the copy paste helping to student do not think and do not learn.
It is not totally independent and this has electrical dependency of energy. If there is a cut of energy in the house, internet is useless.
The piracy of products in the Internet is very common.
Part of information offered has bad quality without references or author information.
Danger of robbery of information exists. Hackers
It isn’t assured confidentiality and it is possible transmission of virus through the transference of files.
With all this census of advantages and disadvantages that presents the internet in our lives and our media we can say that it is a great advance that the man has made and that can and should be used but with a responsible kind to benefit from it.
By Diana Rodas
