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Ghimirey 1 Tika Ghimirey Dr. Roberto Tinajero English 1301 September 26, 2012 Internet: A Social Evil Had there been no internet, the earth would have been a better place to live in with increased peace and happiness. The internet has not only deteriorated the social structures, norms and civilization, it has also invited a lot of chaos around the world and increased crimes. Social network through internet has created a lot of problems in the modern society. It has spoiled the English language and degraded the overall educational qualities. Internet also helps students plagiarize materials. Despite of its some usefulness in the modern world, internet is a real devastating disaster and a great social evil for today. As mentioned above, internet is misused to agitate people around the world. Some internet sites like YouTube and others can be used to force people into violence by hurting them emotionally. Ru Guangrong in the article “The Negative Impact of Internet and its Solutions” states that, “The globalized Internet has provided wider horizon and more numerous technical means to commit computer crimes”. Actually, it holds true not for just computer crimes but for any kind of crime of the age. For example, very recently, an anti-Islamic video successfully created a lot of chaos in the world. It seems that the person who uploaded the movie in the interne made the video intentionally to destroy the peace of the world. It could be that some terrorists are involved in making that anti religion movie to generate anti US mentality in the people around the world which would eventually help them gather more support to conquer other peace loving nations like ours. Obviously, this is just one example among many. In the same way

Ghimirey 2 one can easily say that internet issues can sometimes lead to wars and sometimes even to world wars. Furthermore, internet sources have been a very good means for the people of evil mentality to create any kind of disturbance in the society. For example, world level terrorists and mafias are able to keep their network through internet. Since a total control over the internet is not possible, terrorists can easily use it for their purpose which ends up with more violence and blood shades around the world. In other words, the world has become more violent with internet than without it. Internet is not just able to promote violence all around the world; it is also successful in ruining the society in the name of useful social networking. An author in an article “ The Negative Impact of the Internet and Its Solutions” in uscc.gov claims, “The internet corrupts people’s mind, influences and changes people’s moral prospective and ethical values” (Guangrong ). In other words, internet deviates people from getting in a real life socialization. For example, social network like Facebook in the internet is another big issue of the present moment. Very popular among people all around the world, this social network is taking away everyone’s productive time. Particularly, students are much affected by this network. In this way, unproductive population pushes one’s nation in a situation where there will be a lack of enough manpower for keeping the ongoing economic activities up. Likewise, being with Facebook all the time has also made the people less socialized because they do not get enough time to talk to their real friends and relatives. They rather give more time to fake friends from the social network in the internet. So, internet has adversely affected the real socialization too. Moreover, people have an easy excess to dirty pictures and videos in the internet which people share with each other and sometimes it brings a problem because they share it to a wrong person. Such pictures and videos have an adverse impact especially on children as they learn bad things

Ghimirey 3 from such sites and can possibly spoil themselves. Not just children, these sites have badly affected all age groups in general and students in particular. Besides creating violence and affecting society adversely, internet has also has a bad impact on the English language and education. It is because, internet has spoiled the English language and, in fact, the educational qualities as a whole. Internet can be proved fatal to the society, if not taken care of, when it comes to educating children. Pointing to the impact of internet on education, some authors in CNN.com say that,“ We are at, arguably, an even more important crossroads when it comes to digital media and technology” (Clinton and Steyer “Is the Internet hurting children?”). Clearly, internet has done more bad than good for the global education. For example shortcut writings and vague spellings have become a fashion among the young stars. Moreover, use of such writing fashion is not only in social networking like Facebook, but also in academic writings like college level writings. Since people do not take care of spellings and grammar rules, it will increase the chance of making similar mistakes in actual and college level writings. Such spoiling of the English language spoils the educational qualities as a whole. So, this increases chances of lower scores in college level studies which would in turn jeopardize one’s career. On top of spoiling English language which has deteriorated the overall education quality, plagiarizing from internet has made people lazy and less creative towards arts and literature. Moreover, plagiarism only helps student lie and present a fake material instead of his original creation. In this way it puts a big retardation in the entire education system of the world. Also, people give up their original creative ideas and go for online help no matter however easy the matter is. In this way, easy access to internet material has mad plagiarism more likely than ever. So, it is hard to get research papers free of plagiarism. For example, universities and colleges

Ghimirey 4 have to use extra efforts to control plagiarism by using certain websites, like turn it in, to make sure that it is not simply extracted from an internet source. In general, internet has done more bad than good for the society. Firstly, unlike internet social networking, social norms and values need to be preserved so as to have a sustainable civilization through proper social networking. Secondly, the degrading educational quality due to internet due to plagiarism is like adding poison to the modern civilization which must be checked immediately. Finally, lack of creativity in education and unnecessary social network due to internet has put the society in big danger. So, we need to look at the dark side of the internet more cautiously than ever so as to overcome its bad impact on the society before it is too late.

Ghimirey 5 Work Cited Clinton and Steyer, Chelsea and James P. "CNN."CNN. (2012): 17 Nov. 2012. <CNN.com> Ru Guangrong, Ru."The Chinese Defense Science and Technology Information Monthly". Chinese Defense Science and Technology Information Monthly. 1215 (1998): Web. 17 Nov. 2012. <uscc.gov>.

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