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Its Fast: The Internet Revolution started in 1962 and today almost 3 billion
people are connected worldwide. In 1995, less than 1% of worlds population
was connected, the first billion was reached in 2005, the second billion in
2010 and the third billion in the end of 2014. In a European wide poll people
put the internet at the top of the list in daily essentials for life instead of
bath, car and T.V. The biggest risk of internet is Addiction, in the U.K 2 out of
5 recognize that they are spending long time on the internet but admitted
that we cant stop. 3 out of 5 check their emails and thats the first thing they
do when they wake up in the morning :D and the last thing at night, they put
this habit ahead of interpersonal communication. 2 out of 5 women say that
the greatest challenge in a relationship has become: How to prove more
interesting than their partners smart phone. 9 out of 10 people are surfing
the web rather than reading a book. We humans are not neurologically
designed to with-stand the initiations and offers online, and that suits the
internet companies just fine!
2. We know too much and understand too little: The amount of data on
our fingertips in incredibly large. Every minute the Facebook users share 2.5
million pieces of content per minute, Twitter users tweet 300,000 times per
minute, Youtube users upload 72 hours of videos per minute, 200 million
emails are sent per minute worldwide and Apple users download 50,000 apps
per minute :O From the start of human civilization in 12,000B.C till the year
2003, 5 Exabytes of data was created but that much information is created
after every 2 days. There is so much data that we have to come up with a
new word just to describe it: Kilobyte, Megabyte, Gigabyte, Tera, Peta, Exa,
Zetta and the latest is Yottabyte which measures 10 24 bytes. To maneuver this
type of large data we have to rely on search engines. Google makes 2.5
billion searches per day but we forget that these search engines are highly
mechanical and colored in their interpretation and constantly direct our
attention to their highlighted products. A lot of the information is non-sense,
during the riots in London in 2011 the 3 most shared stories on Twitter was:
the London eye is on fire, the army is on the streets and the tiger has
escaped from the Londons zoo. The 12th most typed question in to Google
is: What should I do with my life?.
3. Privacy is under threat: Large amount of cookies track us wherever we go,
on mobile phones the data is sent every 5 seconds. The head of the French
Police force proposed its now almost impossible to commit a murder and
remain undetected. Every year in U.K we leave up to 5000 pounds worth of
data online which is then sold to marketing companies, which is then studied
detailed and critically to give a view point of our lives. Facebook will know
youre in love long before your mother does. 70% of the people fear about
what they have already shared. 1 out of every 17 teenagers in the U.S has
sent an uncompromising image over the internet and has an
inappropriate chat with a stranger. Majority of the Europeans feel that

security agencies have snooped in to their private conversations over the

internet.
4. Online Crime is out of control: Over the last 20 years crime has abated in
over many countries since it peaked in the U.K in 1995, its fallen by 60% but
internet crime is exploding. In 1995 the NSPCC estimated that there are 7000
known indecent photographs of children at large and in 2014 American law
enforcement found 42 million indecent images on just 1 server. The U.K
government estimates that there are 50,000 people in U.K are actively
involved in downloading and sharing images of child abuse. Online abuse and
hate speech is endemic. On Twitter 10,000 uses of racist slur terms occur a
day and 2000 tweets are sent containing the word rape. 69% of young
people in the U.K have experienced cyber bullying. The head of the U.Ks
National Crime Agency has recently stated that they would only ever be able
to focus on less than 1% of the users involved in child abuse online.
5. Conclusion: Technology can and do bring serious problems, yes there are
dangers and fears that could rival that of the residents of Hiroshima have
realized. The internet presents unrivaled challenges to our abilities to interact
deeply with our partners, keep our critical faculties alive, stop thinking that
the answers always lie out there, remain emotionally connected to real life
people and make the discoveries that come when we are bored and letting
our minds lie fallow. We need to educate our children about the dangers of
this tool, to reconnect with the nature, to talk to one another face to face, to
stop downloading inappropriate images. We need to learn to control
ourselves