The emergence of internet to human life has changed the way people live their life as it has affected human in many ways. For 7 million years, human communication has been limited to hollering distances. Only a few thousand years ago, short signals with flags, messengers or smoke and then that was only limited to kings and generals. Only a within a hundred years ago did radio and telephone emerge for voice and made available to most of the world. Now we can send linked and styled text, voice, pictures and video to anyone. Electronic mail and chat programs are already making a big impact on the way people communicate. E-mail is quickly replacing regular mail since it is faster, cheaper, and more convenient. Chat programs are beginning to replace the telephone since they are more convenient and allow a person to talk to multiple people at once. Even commercial interactions such as buying and selling goods or gathering information are facilitated by the internet. However, one drawback comes with these changes; the Internet allows communication to become less personal.
To gain information, one had to find a person who knew that information and ask them to explain it or attain it from a book without much personal interaction with others. The two way communication required face to face interaction. The telephone allowed two way communications to occur without such personal interaction. Even writing an e-mail tends to be less personal than writing a real letter as people tend to send them off without giving them the careful personal consideration they would give to a letter. In the past, people were forced to interact personally and often face to face with others to perform daily tasks. Hence, forcing them to acquire social skills. Today, the Internet has lessened the need for direct communication, which could diminish the human social skills required for a happy and successful life.
The Internet is breaking down the role of geographic separation as a physical barrier to communication and facilitating the formation of a global community. It allows people to make contacts or stay in communication over longer distances. Almost anyone can place a web page on the Internet for the entire world to view. As the Internet becomes global, these effects will increase. The Internet is revolutionizing the economy and the way companies do business. For instance, e-commerce is changing the way goods and services transactions and encouraging the development of a global community market.
Nowadays, people want access to Internet-based communication with health care providers. There is evidence that online communication with health care providers promotes health-related quality of life and, further, that health care consumers would benefit from increased partnerships between health information technology and health care provider, since health care providers are a more trusted source of health information than the Internet (but the Internet is the source most often used by the public to retrieve health information)
Internet does affect human in almost all aspect in life. Hopefully, human are able to handle it and bring about more success for a better future.
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