The Online World!!
Contemporarily,internet has beecome an inseparable part of life.It has changed the way we live,the way we communicate and the way we think.We use it for a spate of reasons from sending emails,banking,advertisement,entertainment,fetching information on anything and everything under the sun to social networking and gaming. With a computer and an internet connection,we can know about the whole world:that's the 21st century,the era of information.
A good number of companies make their money through internet:Google,Yahoo,Facebook,to mention some.So,internet is a big business. The online world is heavily congested with billions of web pages contributed by millions of web sites. However, "Every coin has two sides",goes an old adage,and complies with the internet thing too.
The internet has affected physical,emotional,psychological,social and mental aspects of human life.A number of such problems has been seen in web addicts.They experience low eye sight,back aches,loss in patience level,difficulty in interacting with real people,and many more..There are cases in China which corroborates this fact.The web addicts are sent to rehabiliation camps.
The scenario does not end there.Viruses,malwares were always big threats to the internet users.Sporadically,we get to hear about viruses, causing harm to millions of computers all over the world.With the burgeoning internet users the case has become even worse.As of 8th Aug. 2009,a co-ordinated attack called Distributed Denial of service(DDoS) on popular websites like google,facebook and twitter was observed which has baffled the security experts.
So,the $64000 question is are we safe in the online world?
