Uses of Internet Nowadays

The internet users is still growing more and more in line with the increasing of population and the access of internet more easier than before. More easier because you can access the internet not from only personal computer desktop with the cable internet network, but nowadays it can be access with laptops, mobile phones, ipad, etc. Internet can be accessible through the wireless setting, modem or provider signal not only through the cable internet network that’s rigid. But, back onto my question – what is the most people uses of internet nowadays? Below is the answer:

• Information:

Information is the biggest role that made internet as big as now. Internet is just like “shaman” but this is modern shaman. People can ask everything and the internet can give the answer. Just type what information do you looking for in your favorite search engine.

• Email:

People can do communicate with another people world wide. Electronic correspondence, chat, share document with ease, fast and mostly is free service from the email provider such as Gmail (Google), Hotmail (Bing), Yahoo! Mail (Yahoo!!), etc.

• Social Networking or Dating/Personals:

Nowadays social networking is one of the important part from internet. People can do chit-chat using this service, share what he/she love from their life to others world wide. Also people can meet for new friends. But, it can be useful for doing business to keep in touch with customer such as using Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, etc. Dating/Personals not much different with social networking, only it’s more specifically to making a new relationship (finding their life partners) or continue the relationship.

• Business (Shopping/E-Commerce, Services, Job Search):

Business people greatly helped in the presence of internet, because they can made the world trade easier and made the promotion (such as company profile) with more cheap and world wide outreach. People do shopping from internet, just use your fingers to find what product or services do you looking for – usually the cost of products less expensive than buying through the conventional store. Need to pay your bills (whatever the bills), you can paid it from the internet with internet banking or another services such as Paypal. Many people looking for jobs from the internet because it’s more easier, faster, and you can filter what skills do you have to meet what company requirement.

• Entertainment:

There are so many entertainment on the internet, when people get stress or bored, many of them enjoy the entertainment that offered from internet such as online games, watching films or listening to the music online and many more.

Types of Internet Misuse

Misuse of Internet and communications systems comes in several forms:

•         Hacking

Hacking is where an unauthorized person uses a network, Internet or modem connection to gain access past security passwords or other security to see data stored on another computer. Hackers sometimes use software hacking tools and often target, for example, particular sites on the Internet.

•      Data misuse and unauthorized transfer or copying

Copying and illegal transfer of data is very quick and easy using online computers and large storage devices such as hard disks, memory sticks and DVDs. Personal data, company research and written work, such as novels and textbooks, cannot be copied without the copyright holder's permission.

•   Copying and distributing copyrighted software, music and film

This includes copying music and movies with computer equipment and distributing it on the Internet without the copyright holder's permission. This is a widespread misuse of both computers and the Internet that breaks copyright regulations.

•       Email and chat room abuses

Internet services such as chat rooms and email have been the subject of many well-publicised cases of impersonation and deception where people who are online pretend to have a different identity. Chat rooms have been used to spread rumours about well-known personalities. A growing area of abuse of the Internet is email spam, where millions of emails are sent to advertise both legal and illegal products and services.

•      Pornography

A lot of indecent material and pornography is available through the Internet and can be stored in electronic form. There have been several cases of material, which is classified as illegal, or which shows illegal acts, being found stored on computers followed by prosecutions for possession of the material.

•       Identity and financial abuse

This topic includes misuse of stolen or fictional credit card numbers to obtain goods or services on the Internet, and use of computers in financial frauds. These can range from complex well thought out deceptions to simple uses such as printing counterfeit money with colour printers.

•        Viruses

Viruses are relatively simple programs written by people and designed to cause damage to computers or their files.

Example of Internet misuse: Hacker Team named "Anonymous" hack most of Malaysia website on 16 June 2011 around 3.00 am to 7.00 am (Malaysia time). 

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Traditional Communication VS Internet Communication

• Most traditional communications media including telephone, music, film, and television are being reshaped or redefined by the Internet, giving birth to new services such as voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and Internet Protocol television (IPTV). 

• Newspaper, book and other print publishing are adapting to website technology, or are reshaped into blogging and web feeds.

• The Internet has enabled and accelerated new forms of human interactions through instant messaging, Internet forums, and social networking.

• Online shopping has boomed both for major retail outlets and small artisans and traders. Business-to-business and financial services on the Internet affect supply chains across entire industries.

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Introduction to Internet

The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard internet protocol suite to serve several billion users worldwide. It is a network of networks that consists of millions of private, public, academic, business, and government networks, of local to global scope, that are linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless and optical networking technologies. 

The Internet carries an extensive range of information resources and services, such as the inter-linked hypertext documents of the World Wide Web (WWW), the infrastructure to support email, and peer-to-peer networks.