Write an article on :- Internet : a boon or bane
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When I want to information about any given topic, I first turn to the Internet. Most of the time, I get what I am looking for.
A man needs a fair amount of information to run his life efficiently, and to date the Internet is the most versatile information-provider that man has ever devised. If for nothing else, for that reason alone it thoroughly deserves to be called a boon.
That is not to say that it does not have multiple other uses as well: one can avail of its services to bank, to plan and book holidays, to buy railway or aeroplane tickets, to keep in touch with one’s friends and make new ones, to share one’s thoughts with others and get their feedback on them, to chat, to play online games, to run an individual, social or political campaign, to create one’s own circle of like-minded people … the list is yet to be exhausted, but it is surely already large enough to explain why, more and more, people all around the world are getting hooked to the Internet.
The Internet has also been widely misused by the pornography and gambling industries. Although many governments have woken up to the dangers of the situation, their efforts, by and large, have not paid off.
One result is that wonderful inventions like the Internet, which can be such an unmitigated blessing to us, also lends itself to terms like ‘bane’ and ‘curse’!