Is The Internet Benefical or detrimental ?

I believe that the internet was intended to be beneficial, but over time it became detrimental. As people started to take the internet for granted, some people started to find ways to hurt people through the internet. Their has been cyberbullying, which has led to people commiting sucide and having laws made up for bullying over the internet. If their was no internet, their wouldn’t have been bullying over the internet. Of course the internet has good qualities, we can check our email over online, instead of waiting for paper mail, which help saves trees. Their are way more good qualities, and if 10 years ago the internet would have been beneficial, and it is still benefical now, but it’s more detrimental than beneficial. In the text,” Thermostats, Locks and Lights: Digital Tools of Domestic Abuse,” by Nellie Bowles, it says,” In more than 30 interviews with The New York Times, domestic abuse victims, their lawyers, shelter workers and emergency responders described how the technology was becoming an alarming new tool. Abusers — using apps on their smartphones, which are connected to the internet-enabled devices — would remotely control everyday objects in the home, sometimes to watch and listen, other times to scare or show power. Even after a partner had left the home, the devices often stayed and continued to be used to intimidate and confuse…Connected home devices have increasingly cropped up in domestic abuse cases over the past year, according to those working with victims of domestic violence. Those at help lines said more people were calling in the last 12 months about losing control of Wi-Fi-enabled doors, speakers, thermostats, lights and cameras. Lawyers also said they were wrangling with how to add language to restraining orders to cover smart home technology.” As the internet expands, and we start getting smartphones, smart TV’s, and Wi-Fi, they will be more people who will find ways to make the internet, by doing things that they shouldn’t be doing. Instead of abuse happening in person, it is happening on the internet. The things we do on the internet, were not intended for us to use by the creators of the internet. The internet was benefical, but overtime it became detrimental.

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