INTERNET ADDICTION by Moiz Qaidjoher

We all are aware about ‘Internet Addiction’. Nowadays, about 90% of the world are using and are addicted to the social media apps like: Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and etc. people are getting lazier day by day because they are not at all doing physical activities.
In today’s world, social media has come over life by daring people to take dangerous tasks like the ‘Blue Whale game’. This game has made 100’of 100’s people to do suicide, because it challenges you on every level we pass or succeed. When it is the end of the game, it gives a riskiest task in the game which is to do a suicide, or else they will hack or data in the computer or on any device.

Although, the internet is a very useful tool that can make people’s lives in modern society much more helpful, it also has negative effects. The development of information technology particularly the internet has brought with it both positive and negative effects to society. The first point is that the internet makes work or any research easier than doing manually, before when there was no technology, the students or the researchers had to visit library to get that relevant material to their research topics, and nowadays it will just take a subscription or just browsing online to search for the required topic. As time moves on, there is more and more information that is put onto the internet and this information is added daily. In addition, we can all watch T.V shows, movies, music videos, podcast and watching sports events like cricket and keep up with sports score. Now we come to the second point which is on internet we can save the cost of travelling and all other things. Through the use of internet, it is possible for all businessmen to do ‘teleconferencing’ which means that we can conference or debate online, which will save a lot of travel cost.

Now, let’s come to negative side of internet. The first point I would like to share is Internet can make children, teenagers and even adults to get addicted to online games. Online games can get addicted to everyone, this can steal away our precious time which otherwise should have been used for something better. So many children have decided to spend all of their time in front of the computer playing games instead of playing outside. The second point is that internet has made people so busy that they can’t even meet each other physically. Nowadays, people are so involved in the internet that they have forgotten how to interact with their family, friends and his business partners. Everyone seems to walk around staring at the cell phones not even noticing those around them.

I would like to end my article with a beautiful quote:

“The internet, like the steam engine, is a technological breakthrough that changed the world.”