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The benefits and dangers of the internet

Internet has undoubtedly changed our habits and continues to do so with its constant evolution. Its multiplatform development and high speeds offer us countless possibilities but, at the same time, expose us to risks that we must identify. It is up to us to get the most out of it.

Profits

1. INTERACTION: The Internet often makes us forget about borders because it makes it possible to interact with people from anywhere on the planet. This is how it keeps us in contact with friends and family who are outside the country.
2. INFORMATION: We have so much information at our disposal that it seems to have no limits and that grows in real time. This is a great opportunity for education and self-taught.
3. FREE OPINION: The Internet is a platform where we can express ourselves freely and without censorship on any subject. Debates, forums and citizen participation contribute to democracy.
4. ENTERTAINMENT: The network is an undeniable space for leisure, where its offer can satisfy a lover of cinema, TV, music, video games, etc. Their community alternatives also take center stage, here social networks and mobile applications take center stage.
5. COMMERCE: Small entrepreneurs can offer their products and services, as well as create new purely electronic business opportunities. Likewise, a permanent link can be created between the company and its customers through this medium.

Danger of using the internet

1. INFORMATION: There is too much information, among which much is of doubtful quality or far from reality. In addition, it can lead to bad «copy and paste» practices or self-medication.
2. FRAUD: The anonymity provided by the Internet often causes identities to be misused, copyright infringed, and piracy proliferates.
3. INVASION OF PRIVACY: There are ways to filter our information and files through various modalities such as spyware or websites and forms that mimic the official channels of companies, for example banks. Even the users themselves expose themselves by publishing their daily itineraries without measuring the risks involved.
4. CHILDREN’S EXHIBITION: The youngest are vulnerable to violent and sexual content, as well as stalkers and cyberbullying. Parental guidance and supervision is vital.
5. DEPENDENCE: It is increasingly common to see people attentive to their mobile phones while ignoring whoever is in front of them. The Internet can take us from procrastination and isolation, to addiction.
   When browsing the internet we can find different options to have fun, learn or work. Social networks are platforms that allow us to create content to share, send and receive any type of information in various formats such as images, text, audios, videos, etc. In addition, one of the great benefits is that it helps us stay in constant communication with our friends and known people who are thousands of miles away, but we must also be careful not to contact strangers. Therefore, you have to be very responsible when creating accounts on the different social networks that we easily find today.
   Some of the risks to which we are exposed, is to find ourselves with false profiles, untrue information, identity theft, loss of privacy since when sharing our photos and even very personal data through social networks, it can be seen by many people who do not know if they are trustworthy, so we must bear in mind that there are malicious people on the internet who really want to cause us any kind of harm.
   Well, to avoid any type of risk when using any platform and the internet in general, we must only be careful with the personal information that we place or publish. We can configure privacy only to see what you want, likewise if our Facebook or Instagram profile is public, we can put it in private.