Using The Internet In Today's Society

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Using the Internet in Today’s Society


In our day and age we have been privileged enough to see many changes in the way we live. Technology is making life more and more simple everyday. Ten years ago one would have never thought that he could perform so many activities that he can now so easily. The internet is one such advancement in technology that we are able to take ample advantage of. With the internet we are able to accomplish many tasks such as performing a very advanced search of any topic you can possibly imagine. One can also talk for free through an instant messenger program to people who are using the same program throughout the whole world. The internet has also made businesses more successful in that through the simple click of a mouse you can pay almost any bill or purchase items online with just having a credit card at your fingertips. In this paper I will discuss the many different uses of the internet in today’s society and discuss how using all avenues of the internet have made our life a little easier.
The first and probably most important aspect of the internet that has evolved to make our life easier is E-Commerce. E-Commerce is the buying and selling of products over the internet. One online article stated very well how E-Commerce evolved. “What started as a small, in comparison to what the Internet is now, happening just a few short years ago has grown faster and bigger that anyone would want their child to grow. It has grown to the place where the child is almost unmanageable. In that growth, there are many businesses that have go online without any idea of what their web site is to do for them and how to use it to its best advantage” (www.sellingselling.com). E-Commerce not only helps the person that is trying to run a business but it also helps investors and others who are trying to purchase online products. A person can buy almost anything online that is imaginable. Items that a fe...