Has The Internet Done Us Harm Or Good ?

Ever since the era of the internet was born due to advanced technology, i agree that it has done people all around the world good. The internet is like a virtual information warehouse stocked up with news, entertainment, commercial and educational articles. The internet is a facility which can be used as long you can find an internet connection. There are many reasons why and how the internet has benefited people because it is free, efficient and convenient.

Firstly, the internet is a convenient source of information because it makes a person's life easier by a click on a link through the internet. The internet has other advantages like online streaming television and online purchases. If you had missed any of your favourite television shows, you can always view them on streaming video websites at your own time. These sites allows you download the contents of the video either for free or for just a small fee. For those people who enjoy shopping but are always busy or even lazy to leave the house, they can go virtual shopping. Items like books, music, movies and even tickets like concert or air tickets can be bought with just a click of the mouse. The most common method of payment is by credit card and it is a relatively safe way to pay for purchases.

Secondly the internet is very advanced as there capabilities like online databases, email, internet-relay chat or also known as IRC and educational information for homework, research or projects which can be easily obtained. Online databases are websites which allows users to upload there files onto the internet to save space on their computer or to share their files with other people like friends and family and the file uploaded can be downloaded by anyone anytime so that you don't have to go a friend's or cousin place just to get the file. Once the file is being uploaded a link will be given to find the file can it can be downloaded straightaway. Email is short for Electronic Mail where users can send mail through the internet almost immediately which is very convenient and fast and it is also free which explains why email is so popular nowadays. Internet-Relay chat is a program which allows people to send messages to the recipient and be replied immediately but it is only possible if the other person is also online and it also free and very popular because it is very useful and saves the people talking online money as they won't have to call each other or send text messages through their phones which is pretty costly if it is being used frequently. The internet contains many educational information which can help students with their projects very conveniently cause there are websites which are search engines which shows results about anything that has to do with what you typed in the search box and the most relevant result is always shown first.

Lastly, there are websites where the news can be viewed and online forums. Online forums are websites which allows people to share information. On such forums, you can also ask any kind of question or post your views about a certain topic that you like because the internet is accessible world-wide and widely popular because it maintains your anonymity. It is quite impossible to get complete information because there are many people with accounts using false identity. News websites nowadays keeps people updated with what is going on around the world and locally it is very convenient. For example, businessmen who travel frequently can receive news at anytime and anywhere. Let's say you are from Singapore and you travel to another country like England for a business trip, The New Paper or The Strait Times may not be easily available so websites like these are created so that people can know about what is going on around the world.

There is a respectable view that the internet has done us more good than harm. It is suggested that online purchases are not safe because they will require you to type in personal particulars like name, address and credit card numbers. There is a risk where there is a hacker on the internet who manages to capture those particulars or if the website happens to be a hoax. therefore, we must excercise caution and should always purchase from a trusted website. It is also suggested that the internet has been abused by teenagers by viewing and downloading pornography. It is the duty of the parents to teach their kids well and always supervise them when they are using the computer. Parents can further monitor their children's usage of the internet by enabling restrictions on the computer or even download an Anti-Pornography software to block all kinds of pornography which is shown on the internet.

I still agree that the internet has done us more good than harm. The internet is like a free world which means anything is allowed to go on the internet good or bad but people must be able to differentiate the good from the bad or else there is more harm than benefits. If people still feel that the internet has done more harm, then the government should control the materials going onto the internet in their country. If the government is involved, then there is sure to be less harmed caused on the internet. In the end, more and more people will come to realize that the internet has definitely done much more good than harm.

An Interesting Incident During The Holidays

During the last three weeks of the December holidays last year, as usual, I was just lazing around the couch with the remote changing the channel on the television, until the door opened with a bang and my parents came into the living room excitedly with five envelopes in their hands. They had the Singapore Airlines logo on it, so i immediately snatched the envelopes and open one...it was a ticket to Hong Kong. I jumped for joy when i saw the destination. I was always looking forward forward to go to Hong Kong but i thought i was probably asking a tad too much from my parents but they completely took me by surprise especially with the number of tickets cause there were only three members in my family so there were two extra. My mum said that my aunt and my cousin would be accompanying us to Hong Kong this week and it was also a reward for studying so hard all these years. At that moment i just felt so happy and panicky cause we were leaving by Friday and my bags weren't even packed

Finally Friday came and i was so excited to leave for Hong Kong. At about 5pm we reached the airport and started to check in. The flight was scheduled to leave at 7.30pm so since we had so much time on our hands we decided to walk around the shops in the airport. the clock was ticking away and it was finally 7.30 pm. by 7.45pm we were already seated in our seats comfortably accept that it felt a little warm cause the air-conditioners have not been turned on. A minute a announcement sounded and the pilot asked everyone to leave the plane in an orderly fashion cause there were some technical problems with the air-conditioners.
When the passengers heard the announcement, they all sighed cause everyone was probably already seated in their seats and ready to take off. So we had no choice but to get off the plane. We had to go back to the waiting area and wait for the announcement to get back on the plane. Time was passing by so slowly and the passengers got so restless and hungry so food was being given out to the passengers at the waiting area. Finally at 9.45 there was an announcement for us to get back on the plane. Everyone was so relieved when they heard thew good news cause we had to wait for about two and a half hours. By 10pm the plane took off and we were scheduled to arrive at Hong Kong at 1am.

The next day, we finally reached Hong Kong at about 1.15am. We immediately collected our luggages and checked out and took a cab to our hotel cause we were all dead beat and tired. When we reached the hotel, it was already about 2am and we had to wake up at about 7.30am because we were scheduled for a tour around Hong Kong Market. But in the end we decided to skip the tour cause we were still feeling tired. But we had to be at the Hong Kong Ferry Terminal cause we were going to Macau for a one night stay. In the afternoon we took our luggages and left the hotel early cause we wanted to roam around by ourselves for a while before going to the terminal. Getting around Hong Kong was easy cause my mum was a chinese and could speak fluent cantonese cause my grandmother was one. At about 4pm we reached the ferry terminal and left for Macau. We reached Macau at about 6.15pm and went to our hotel put down our luggage in our rooms and went for dinner we stayed in a hotel where there was a casino so basically the hotel was lit up with so many lights and it was noisy so we decided to go around the streets for dinner. After a hearty dinner, we went back to sleep and wait for the next day to come cause there was going to be a city tour of Macau. During the city tour of Macau the next day, we went to many places but the place that i enjoyed the most was a hotel called "The Venetian". The hotel was a very grand place to be in. It was said to be like a hotel in Italy which was quite true because it looked very grand. But that was not the best part. The was a floor on the hotel that looked like a street in Italy. It was so real cause there were streetlights and the ceiling was painted like a sky and there was a river going around the floor in the middle and there were gondola rides for the tourists. But time was passing fast so we had catch back to Hong Kong.

It was already in evening when we reached and a friend of my mum picked us up to go for dinner and a little sightseeing. We decided to go to Victoria Peak at about 9.30pm so we went to have a good dinner and went up to the peak. When i arrived at the peak, i was so amazed by the sight cause you could see many buildings and they were all being lit up and night. It was such a beautiful sight which could not be described cause i have never ever seen a sight like that. It was getting late and we had to go back to the hotel cause it was already past midnight.

The next day we had to wake up early in the morning cause we were going to Hong Kong Disneyland. But we went for breakfast at a diner nearby the hotel it was a Hong Kong Style breakfast so i thought it would be pretty similar caused they served us bread, eggs and sausages but when i took a bread bite out the bread i was completely freaked out caused it tasted so sweet it was like eating five teaspoons of sugar at one go. So i looked in it there was butter and jam which was normal but there was condensed milk in it as well. I immediately stayed away from the bread and ate my eggs and sausages. I never knew that people in Hong Kong like bread with condensed milk to me, its pretty disgusting cause it was way too sweet but maybe Hong Kong didn't people didn't feel that way i still left the bread uneaten. Time was passing and it time to go to Disneyland. When we reached there i felt that it was such a colourful and vibrant place cause there were a bunch of flowers and plants which made Mickey's face. There so many rides there that my cousin practically rid everyone of them except the non thrilling rides. It was such a beautiful place as you get take pictures with your favourite characters. But it was getting late and we had to go back early cause we had to pack our bags and the next day.

The next day came, i felt happy and sad at the same time cause my holiday was ending which meant i had to go back and start studying but i was happy cause i missed uing the computer alot and i also wished to see my friends. By the time we reached home it was already in the evening and i immediately got home and jumped on my bed and went to sleep without even taking off my shoes cause i was so tired after my exciting trip.