Blog #4

      It is not new to us that computer mediated technology has taken over many of the machines that were so frequently used by us, such as the telephone and/or emails. If we were to compare the amount of time for newer technology to developed compared to today we can see that technology is being replaced almost immediately today compared to the past. Cmc has led to the internet being probably the most used. Some even say that they can’t live without it which leads to my topic for today. The internet has both its advantages and disadvantages which I will be talking about today.
The internet has made our world easier for us. With the internet we are able to make any kind of purchase online we make when we go to stores. So in other words we are able to shop right in our fingertips. We can look up information within minutes, which would take us weeks for us to find in a library. We are able to find out news much faster than ever before. Lastly, we are able to communicate with each other with social websites in which we make profiles of ourselves. We can stay in touch more with ling distant relatives, with our beloved others and even meet potential beloved others. Today online communication has become mainly the way in which people find partners.
        However, the internet has a dark side in which we don’t see the bas things that happen and affected others. People have become very addicted to the internet. For example, men tend to watch more porn online than women. It becomes a problem when they become addicted because they desensitize women and begin to see them as an object and not a human being. Another example of the Dark Side of the internet is the broadness of the freedom that we have online. Compared to real life the online world does not have as many laws as we do which gives freedom to all of us to pretty much do as we please. Deception or the false appearance or statement by someone has become a very big problem in cmc. In the internet we can be whomever it is we would like to be. There’s even a show named Catfish in which we see cases of people potentially being deceived. In reality there is no law that punishes the people who do this, but those people are really hurt because they have real feelings that were involved in the “affair”. In an informative article I read that those who are involved in the human trafficking business are amongst those people who participate in online deception. They mainly play the role of handsome men who will marry them or even tricking women to believe they will have shots od being famous by being actresses, singers, dancers, etc. It is needless to say that their main targets  are women. This is a huge problem not online not only in the United States of America but all over the world.