why is the internet dangerous? reasons?

Answer 1

Lies, viruses, and Spam are the three biggest dangers of the Internet.

Anyone can say anything on the Internet and as Hitler proved if you tell a lie enough times you will find some fool to believe it. Disinformation and lies are common, so always check your sources. I have even seen some people give outright lies for an answer on Yahoo Answers.

Viruses have destroyed a lot of data, machines, and wasted many man hours of work. They are most often spread over the Internet. They are the dark side of the Internet. Luckily, the most skilled people have moved beyond writing viruses. Those who write the majority of viruses now days are “script kitties” kids who don’t understand how cruel they really are. The same kind of people who would stick pins in a living frog to see what happens.

Spam wastes a lot of time and bandwidth. Niger is infamous for its Spam schemes to steal people’s money; it is there largest industry. Most of the viruses not written by “script kitties” are used to take over other people’s computers. Spammers hate spam filters; they know that out of 1,000 emails only one person may respond, but that one person can pay for millions and millions of emails so spamming is worth it. There are some viruses, created by Spammers, to take over another person’s computer and use it to send out their Spam. These zombie computers are unknowingly spreading pollution on the Internet, slowing it down, wasting a lot of time and just creating a big mess.

The other big danger of the Internet is rooted in its anonymous nature. This lets predators take advantage of innocent people. It also allows easy identity theft and it lets people be rude to each other without fear of being caught.

An experiment run by ABC’s 20/20 put high school and college students into small isolated groups and had them email and text each other. It didn’t take long before those exchanges became toxic. With people calling other people gay, drug users, sexual abusers and worse. The experiment took only a matter of a few hours.

These examples illustrate some of the evils and unintended consequences of the Internet. I still think that the advantages of near instant communication, remote shopping, and the ability to share huge amounts of data outweigh the evils of the Internet. In my time at Yahoo Answers I have done the equalivalent of hundreds of term papers by writing answers to people’s questions. Since I like to get the Best Answer I try to be very complete in my answers and to include citations. I have spent way too many hours doing this I have to admit, but I feel that I have helped people and that if I didn’t have the Internet then it would have taken me years to have done an equal amount of work.

The Internet is a tool just like a gun or dynamite. Alfred Nobel found a way to stabilize and replace nitroglycerin to make mining much easier and safer. To his horror his invention TNT was used to make some of the most powerful bombs ever seen. He was so horrified by this that he founded the Nobel Prize to award people in Science, Literature and the Pursuit of Peace. He tried to make up for the evil that he unleashed on the world.

The US military and major universities are responsible for the Internet, originally it was intended to be a tool of war. No matter how bad an enemy hurt the US, even after an all out attack by the USSR there would be a way for the military to communicate. The Internet would work around any holes and use the connections through the military and major universities to insure that the orders to kill would get through. The public has taken that weapon that was originally designed for war and turned into a powerful tool of peace, commerce, enjoyment and more. That makes the Internet worth it.

Answer 2

it is no dangerous at all. it is quite useful and even necessary. the user makes it dangerous when is loosing self control, but only for him/herself.