How technology has affected everyone (Blog 1)

With the introduction of the internet, it opened up a lot of venues for businesses, new ones to be formed, and current businesses to be aided in wireless electronic transfers and such. It also has opened up options for students and curious minds alike to type in a question in a search engine and find dozens of links to find the answer. But when there’s good, there’s something to balance the equation, as it open up opportunities for businesses and people, it opened up options for conmen, thieves, and evil users with the intent  to gain some monetary gain at someone else’s expense.

Businesses gained benefits from the internet with the creation of email. Allowing co workers to send their projects or presentations that needed to be presented in an hour from anywhere in the world. The recipient can receive anything via e-mail and be able to utilize that piece of their puzzle to carry on with their work instead of waiting close to a week to finish without the others input. This allows businesses to cut labor hours being wasted by merely waiting on someone else’s input to finish their final product (be it again presentations, prototypes for a new item, or ensuring their system is secure from other rival companies etc.)

Students and knowledge seekers gained a huge benefit for being able to find the answer to a question they don’t know. In today’s day and age people are running out of excuses to say “I don’t know” with Google and handfuls of web resources, someone is bound to have found out the answer to your exact question, and one in a billion shot being that your are not the only one who has had a specific problem with someone knowing the solution or figuring it out for themselves and posting it on forums all over the world wide web. But there are those you use this amazing pipeline of info to use it for devious purposes ( self indulgences, vile content, or simply wasting their life looking up pointless YouTube videos and getting the urge to try it despite seeing it fail).

The main dark side of the internet is the possibility of someone who doesn’t want to earn an honest days pay siphoning your information and browsing history. This comes into major effect with people creating semi legitimate looking websites for a bank the users have or key logger viruses, these viruses track and send back every key stroke you have used until the virus is eradicated, this is dangerous when you use online banking resources and it collects your user name and priceless password for them to transfer anything they want wherever. Thus these kinds of threats opened the door to recent major expansions of 50+ Antivirus, malware and spyware companies creating software to combat these kinds of threats and raking in close to billions a year.

The internet is a great resource….. as long as it’s used and monitored properly by eventually…. yourself.