Introduction
Centuries ago, technology has been the fastest growing environment in most of the civilized countries. It all started by creating the radio, the telephone, the television and continuing to our present. One of the improved technologies that made a gossip throughout the world is the internet. The internet was created in the 1960s by the United States defense organization (Thadani, 2010) . The internet is software that works online and has information about everything on a person’s mind. Nowadays, the internet is the fastest way to collect any information needed by a student, an employee and non-working people. The internet is been used by many languages, it also been used by different levels of the society. The internet can be used in a correct way or in a negative way. The internet sometimes affect the people using it, it could be a child or a man or a women. Most people think that the internet as negativity on humans. The internet affects negatively on men, women and children.
Background of the internet
The internet is called the World Wide Web because it connects everyone from any country to transfer knowledge and information about any subject. The Internet was created in the 1960's by the United States defense organization (Thadani, 2010). The internet have been used many years until now and it contains information about everything that is realted to our lives. People tend to use the internet to get infromation , communicate with people around the world and in seeking friendships from people from other countries using different ways of communication. The internet has many advantages and disadvantages and it all depends on the person on how to use it.
Many people used internet for many different reasons, one of the important categories of the people who used internet are the men. Some men used the internet in balance way, and do not make the internet as important things of his responsibilities. However, there are lots of men take the internet as necessary things in their life. There are many negative effects of the internet on men such as wasting time, enter pornographic site and psychologically, physically problems
Firstly, Men are the future builders to each society, so if the grown up men started his life in wasting time and not paying any attention to what is important, it may cause a disaster. Men can waste a lot of time when they are using the internet. The man has a divided time through the day and this time is what controls the man to do. In a normal day the man has two times; family time and work time. This time should be in correct way to avoid any trouble. The internet affects the family time if the man is using it in the work and through the day just for browsing. A father can be affected negatively by starting to ignore their family responsibilities. For example, a son was left in school because the father was too tired to pick him up from school. Men can waste time on internet browsing for unimportant stuff and all of this is a waste of time at work. In U.S, the average hours wasting time in work is 2.09 hours and 44.7 % of this time is wasted on non-work related internet usage (Galoozis, 2005). A study was made to show that the internet is highly used for wasting time and what the study concluded is that “The internet is the top-time wasting activities according to a study in 2005 for males” (Wolfe, 2005).
Secondly, internet can also affect them especially in having the full access to enter any pornographic site. These actions can help in affecting the men’s’ religions and point of views. For Muslim men, Islam prohibits these sites and actions, Islamic religion and all religions refuse pornography for everyone in the society. (Dangers of Internet Pronography, 2010). Watching and doing what a man see in a pornographic site will encounter sever injuries to the society that he is living in. it can cause pregnancy for people underage and these actions is danger in having a problem in the family itself. Other dangerous sites are the sites that contain a fraud transaction of money. These sites are highly spread through the internet; men and other gender is always a victim of these sites. These sites can steal men by transferred money without the person knowing it.
In addition to that, internet causes physical problems. The men who are addiction to the internet, will have a physical problems. Men who use the computer for a very long time and this may help in getting problems in their eyes and may cause obesity (George, 2008). For example, a male is using the internet for 5 hours a day without doing any sports; this may cause him to get fatter and unhealthier. The use of internet for men is very useful but at the same time it is very dangerous also.
Another problem that the internet affects men is psychologically. The heavily use of internet especially for employees may affect them in many ways, such as, addiction and frustration. The employee can be addicted to use the internet daily for many hours and this may affect his social life. When the social life is bad, the employee may be frustrated and the reaction of that action will make him used the internet for more hours and eventually can cause in destroy his social life.
The usage of internet is all over the world. People use the internet from all ages. Women are a huge part of this world and they are exposed to the internet .part of the women use the internet for good usage such as, getting information, programs at work and many more. On the other hand, they may use it as the negatively affective way. The internet has negative effects on women on the following aspects such as time, social life and commercials. These three are the most important negativity of the internet on the women.
First, women can waste a lot of time using the internet and especially using it in the wrong way. Wasting time on the internet can affect her responsibilities as a wife and as a mother. As a wife, wasting time using the internet can led to her ignoring her husband a lot and this may cause a divorce or other problems between them. Women have given themselves permission to use the Internet as a tool to have what they believe as innocent dalliances with men(shepherdess56, 2009) .
This fact shows that as a wife she will have relationships using the internet so that’s y she stays using it for hours and may destroy her marriage.
As a mother, she will start to ignore her responsibilities towards her children. For example, she will forget cooking dinner or lunch. There's my daughter, at 8 months, playing at my feet while I typed away on the couch. There's me and my son, a year later, with the laptop at my side as I held him in my arms(Mosteller, 2009) .
This one shows that the internet is so addicting for her as a mother that she didn’t hold her 8 months daughter because she was using the internet and while holding her son she cant leave the internet.
She will forget to take care of her children and she will fail to recall helping them in any decision they may take. No matter if it’s wrong or right, they will take it on their own without guiding them.
Secondly, the heavily usage of internet by a women can conduct her social life and meeting new people in person will be very strict. Women are very social in nature and they are very friendly. They can meet anyone, anytime and can be friends with them. The usage of the internet will affect her freedom in a social way. As usual a woman has a lot of friends to hang out with. If she concentrated on using the internet in a daily bases then, she will affect her social life and she will miss a lot of great moments with friends and people around her. People's social worlds are enhanced by new communication technologies. It is a mistake to believe that Internet use and mobile phones plunge people into a spiral of isolation(Corbin, 2009) The usage of internet will strict her to stay for hours and hours nonstop without any outside communication and this may affect her social life by having more friends that she barely know about than hanging out with friends she knows everything about them. She will be under the control of the internet and its kinds.
In addition to time loss and strict freedom, commercials on the internet can affect women negatively especially that women are more sensitive and passionate than men.It’s obvious that commercials are all over the internet. It could be any good company’s commercial or maybe bad ones. On every page opened on the internet it will be full of commercials. When the commercial is good enough the women will pay attention to that commercial. One study of a sample of Stanford graduates and undergraduates found that sixty-eight percent of women felt worse about their own appearances after reading women's magazines(Harbin, 2006) .
For that cause women will go online and find the best company to help them. As good as the commercial, it always can control people and especially women because they are very seductive than men. For example, a women using the internet and suddenly saw a good commercial she will be interested in knowing more about the product and she may buy it. Another fact about commercials is that they can be a scam, even if it’s a good commercial. When a woman is interested in a good commercial she may purchase the product even if it’s a scam. Women are very sensitive in nature and they can be seduced easily when the stuff is good so having a good scam commercial will affect the women more than men. For example, a woman saw a commercial about a brand that is made by someone that has nothing to do with the company.
Internet was made to all mankind. The use of the internet was not only for students, employees or any other gender and level. It was made for people to communicate through a wide distances such as countries. As long as the internet is getting more popular as long as more users from different ages and different countries are using it. Nowadays children are using the internet more than grown up people. The usage of the internet by children gives them most of the advantages and awareness that they need through the little screen they have and work with. Children could be using the internet for three reasons, good source of information, contacting family members and friends, and getting what is needed to finish their school work.
First, people use the internet to get information, read books and other stuff to gain knowledge. Last year's study has wind up that email is the topmost task which is conducted online, followed by general surfing, News reading, shopping etc (Pawar, 2008) .
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The advantage of the internet is used now by our children. Children now spend hours on the internet reading about different stuff to gain knowledge that will help them in their future lives. They can read favorite books that they can’t afford. The children are now getting use to learn new things and learn new cultures through the internet. They have enough knowledge to keep them educated, social and to think of something from many prospective. Two-thirds of the children think that it helps them with their learning, and one-third would like to use it for lessons if they were home sick from school. (Demner, 2001) The internet is a very good source of knowledge for children to learn and be educated for the future.
Second, nowadays family members are separated; each one is seeking his own good. Part of them may travel for education and part of them they travel for business and some may travel for tourism. Fathers and mothers who run a business could travel on the run. They will barely see each other and see their children. Children now use the internet to instant message, email, and chat with other people in chat rooms and a whole host of other activities. (The Internet and Children: Access and Usage) The internet is the best way to contact one another. Children use different programs, depending on the country itself, to communicate with family members and people from all over the world with different nationalities and different cultures. They could learn a lot from others as they teach others what they have. They learned through internet to use the internet effectively. They may contact each other using msn messenger or yahoo messenger and many other programs that help them in communicating through visual and audio.
Third, internet has become the most used software around the world by students. Students are getting use of the internet to get information to help them in schools. Nowadays schools have internet inside the campus for student to use it. Everything is controlled to help the student get the right information that will complete his task in anything he wants. Students have access of the internet in a wide range that will teach them everything they need to get the right help to complete homework’s and projects. Of the 84% of young people that access the internet on a weekly or more frequent basis most used it for searching for information or helping with homework. (The Internet and Children: Access and Usage) .The use of the internet in a right way will benefit the students in their lives and in their studies. They will be concentrating on what they need and what information to get to make their task done.
One the other hand, children using the internet are increasing day by day and this can lead to a lot of problems for them and for the society.
Children can waste a lot of time and power using the internet in a wrong way. This can lead to control their thinking and their childhood life. Wasting time on the internet for a child is not convincing for parents. When a child spends hours on playing games online, this action can slow down their brain cells function. This disadvantage of the internet can destroy their entire future because the future depends on the child’s history. Another disadvantage of the internet is that children sometimes get into an adult chat room. They can be accidently exposed to adult and inappropriate chats such as pornography. Children understand what hear and read and they can decide to do it or not. A high percentage of children do enter chat rooms and they are exposed at any minute to enter the wrong chat room with wrong people. A twenty one percent of children do enter chat rooms and this is a high percentage of people using the internet (The Internet and Children: Access and Usage) . If they try what they hear or see about , it may turn to a disaster to the whole society.
Conclusion
As we have seen, the internet has negative effects on people, especially and separately on men, women and children. Now as we know more about the problem of the internet, it can avoided by these three types that lives in the same society. Avoiding the time wasting, entering pornography sites and using the internet heavily for men can change their lives. They will concentrate on the house, job and their family responsibilities. For women, using the internet less and to get more socially will help her in her life and it will make her a better wife and a mother. Children play games online, this is wrong if the child spends hours and hour’s non-stop. It will affect his brain cells and his studies. I finally recommend that people should be more aware when using the internet and to use only to help them in their own lives.