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Pros and Cons of the Internet

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There was no word 'Internet' or 'Cell phone' in the world until I was in the third grade in elementary school. To play on the yard with friends, I needed to pick up a wire telephone and push the phone numbers to call them. If I was outside, I needed to find a phone booth and call them. We all preferred to play outside rather than to watch TV or playing inside. Even girls, they all played outside until their moms called for dinner. At that time, people always looked far ahead, not down at a small square screen. Nowadays, we are living in the ocean of the Internet. We check the email in the car, check the time when the MBTA is coming to the station and check the weather anytime we want to. Some people said that the information in this day is almost the same as time and money. Because technology of the Internet has been developing incredibly fast, the wave of technology is unavoidable. However, in the wave of Internet’s development, some big problems have appeared. From texting to checking SNS periodically, Internet ‘addiction’ has appeared, and it is getting bigger and bigger. Without distinction of age or sex, people cannot let their phones be. Nobody reads a book in the bus or subway anymore or barely writes a postcard to one’s family in Christmas season. Moreover, many people are using the Internet without filtering, so it has been causing some indiscreet acts, such as cyber-violence or vicious comment to unspecified general public. Yes, now we need to treat the Internet as a big ‘social problem.’ To say, "Too much is as bad as too little." In this essay, I will talk about some specific problems we face due to the Internet, my personal experience without the Internet, how we can solve these problems inside and outside and an attitude for coping with problems. I will talk about some problems such as the situation that people connected more and converse less and isolation because of the Internet, specifically on SNS. Also I will talk about my personal experiment about th

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