This document discusses both the positive and negative impacts of the internet. Some of the key positive impacts mentioned are access to countless websites and information for education, easy global communication through tools like email and video chat, entertainment options, and conveniences like online banking, shopping and conducting business. However, the document also outlines some negative impacts such as a lack of in-person social skills, reduced creativity, cyberbullying, privacy issues, overuse leading to health problems and abandonment of family responsibilities.

1. POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE
IMPACTS OF INTERNET
Mahnoor
BBA

2. INTERNET
A revolution in the field of communication. Interconnection of
computers. Interlinking of the whole world. The internet is the
biggest world-wide communication network of computers. It
has millions of smaller domestic, academic, business, and
government networks, which together carry many different
kinds of information. The term is sometimes abbreviated as
"the net". The World Wide Web is one of its biggest services.

4. Positive impacts of internet
• Access to countless website:
The internet is perfect for giving
everyone the ability to work from
anywhere.
• Education: The Internet contains
an endless supply of knowledge
and information that allows you to
learn about almost any topic or
question you may have. students
just need to do a
search. Nowadays people use
internet to take online classes.

5. • Communication:
With the internet the world has
become a global village, you can
communicate with anyone at any time
and at any place, because internet has
facilitated us. we can communicate
through skype, whatsapp and can send
e-mail to anyone in the world and often
have it delivered in less than a minute,
unlike old times you don’t have to wait
for days to get a reply.

6. • Entertainment: The Internet
gives everyone access to an
endless supply of entertainment,
with access to watch videos, watch
movies, listen to music, and even
play games online.
• Banking , Bills and Shopping:
the internet gives you access to
your bank account to view your
balance, make transactions and
send money. Also many services
enable you to view and pay your
bills electronically. Online shopping
is an other huge advantage of
internet.

7. • Online business: The advent of
internet has in many ways leveled
the playing field for small
businesses to compete with major
corporations. An owner who
understands the benefits of
utilizing the internet when
conducting business and applies
the practices can maximize the
potential of his organization.
• Donation and funding: With
access to much wider audience,
anyone with an internet
connection can quickly make a
donation to their favorite charity
or help fund projects and ideas
that interest them. Also, those
looking for charity can find many
online services that help make it
easier to help donate their causes.

8. NEGATIVE IMPACTS OF INTERNET
• Lack of face to face
communication: Internet is
supposed to bring people closer but
the fact is that somehow many
people find it easier to communicate
through internet instead of
traditional direct way.
• Lack of creativity: One significant
feature of internet is the unlimited
sources of information. Things gets
easier in a way that it becomes a
hindrance for learning.

10. • Cyber bullying: Cyber bullying is
basically a term to describe the bullying
using internet. Cyber bullying is one of
the evilest effect of internet.
Cyberbullying or cyberharassment is a
form of bullying or harassment using
electronic means. It has become
increasingly common, especially among
teenagers. Harmful bullying behavior
can include posting rumors, threats, a
victims' personal information, or
pejorative labels (i.e., hate speech)
• Insomnia: It is a sleeping disorder that
happens when people are not able to
rest or sleep. Internet is one of the
reason to insomnia. Addiction of
internet can become a habit and its not
easy to get rid of it.

11. • Privacy disrupted: Teenagers
exchange their pictures, private
information or personal chat
everyday in social networking relating
to personal security. They are not
fully aware of the risk privacy threat
that their information can be easily
approached by strangers and
misused.
• Abandonment of family: When
use of internet is too much
abandonment of family will occur as
one of the negative effect of internet.
When people spend most of their
time on surfing the internet, they
become insensitive to real life.

12. • Waste of time: It is obvious that if
you spend too much time on internet
you will have to cut down on time for
other activities. As an infinite storage
of entertainment, the internet is
somehow similar to black hole that
leaves no way to get out.
• Health effects: Wasting too much
time on internet can lead to
depression, isolation, obesity, physical
disorders, eyesight problem and many
more.