Downloading games, visiting chat rooms or just surfing the Web are some of the entertainments. In fact, the Internet has been successfully used by people to find life long partners. When people surf the Web, there are numerous things that can be found. Music, hobbies, news and more can be found and shared on the Internet.
Services
Many services are now provided on the Internet such as online banking, job seeking, purchasing tickets. Often these services are not available off-line or can cost you more.
E-Commerce
It has got a really amazing and wide range of products from technology to household needs.
Disadvantages
Theft of personal information
If you use the Internet, you may be facing danger as your personal information such as name, address, credit card number, etc. can be accessed and used by a criminal.
Spamming
Spamming refers to sending unwanted e-mails, which provide no purpose and obstruct the entire system.
Virus threat
Computers attached to the Internet are more prone to virus attacks and they can end up into crashing your whole hard disk.
Pornography
This is perhaps the biggest threat related to your children’s healthy mental life.
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4.8. Match the words below to make word partners.
1. global a. chat rooms
2. surf b. privacy
3. visit c. danger
4. download d. village
5. household e. needs
6. face f. disk
7. hard g. the Internet
8. respect h. games
4.9. Now use the word partners to complete these sentences.
McLuhan believes that the world is rapidly becoming a ________, in which mankind is interconnected by contemporary technology, especially television and the world wide web.
This method will allow you to _________ without leaving any information about what browser you're using, which computer system you have.
Many people who ________ use them as a place to discuss their problems and get a kind of a support.
People of all ages visit special free sites to safely ___________ of high quality.
You are not computer addict, so low-powered computer is suitable for all your _________.
How does computer software usually react when it ________ of virus attack?
_____ can store anywhere from 20MB to more than 200GB.
Sites like Facebook must ___________. They should not tell my friends what I buy on other sites.
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