Thursday, November 4, 2010

The Internet

The Internet is a vast space filled with endless amounts of knowledge. It is useful for a wide variety of reasons. Students use it as a researching tool to aid them in their schoolwork, business owners use it as a way to advertise their businesses, and regular people use it as means of communicating with each other and the world. It is probably this last reason why most people use the Internet. The Internet allows users to communicate with people far away from them via social networks, chat rooms, e-mail, and forums. This universal reach is a great allure to various people. It is much easier to recruit people to your cause if you can reach millions of people at one time. In this way it has revolutionized important events such as political elections. People from all over the world can now voice their opinions on particular candidates and the issues no matter if they pertain to them or not.  It also provides each and every person who has access to it a way to know news from around the world and they have the liberty to access it from the comfort of their own homes. Now nobody has any real excuse to be ignorant of the events that go on in the world around them. For the providers of the Internet access, it is merely another way to make money. They often also provide other services that include phone service, cable, and satellite. But for whatever reason it may be, the Internet is the best way to keep the whole world networked.

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