Does internet really killing your time?

Almost 4.54 billion people are using internet in the world till the date of Jan, 2020. This comes to be 59% of the total global population. In Nepal, 10.21 million people are internet users in January 2020. The number of internet users is increasing day by day in globally.  Most of the people are hanging in internet in most of time. Yes, internet is became one of the most essential part of the life.

Benjamin Franklin said, “Time is money”. Obviously, time is money and once the time goes, it could not be returned. Killing time is vicious cycle.

Many people knowingly or unknowingly killing their time on internet. They start as a short break on browsing internet and it turns into couple of hours. Nowadays, all age group people engaged in internet by using Youtube, Facebook, Instagram, Viber, Twiter, Tiktok and many more social networks. It gives both positive and negative impacts on society.

Positive impacts of internet:

1. Way of effective communication:

It provides effective and immediate communication service from all over the world. Some data, information, file, document etc you want to send from one place to another, it works immediately without any cost.

2. Making easy to business transaction:

It is the age of business and computer. Business without computer and computer without internet is worthless. So something you want to sale, buy or communicate with your customers, you can easily make the transactions by online and communicate with them. It’s making easy to complete the transactions.

3. Collection of information and data regarding what you want:

If you want something to search and learn, you just go to internet and search on it. Information and data regarding everything is found on internet.

4. Banking transaction and online payment:

You can make banking transaction by your bank app from your own home on internet. Going bank premises is not necessary. Payment of household related bills like electricity, water, telephone, cable, insurance premium, school fee and many more. Air ticket, bus ticket and different kind of tickets can book from online.

5. Entertainment:

You can watch movies, listen radio, read online newspaper, play games, chat with friends and relatives and many more entertain things to do. Most of the internet users are involved fro entertain purpose.

As its positive aspects, it has also negative aspects in other hand. Misusing the internet directs to killing human time and it is a big error and fault of human beings. Let’s elaborate the negative aspects of internet:

1. Addiction and time waste:

Person who spends his time on internet directs to addiction of internet. So much time spending refers to waste of time and it is really kill you valuable time and moment.

2. Pornographic and violent image:

Almost infinitely amount of contents are could find on internet. Consequently, users may accidentally come across the violent or some pornographic images and websites that may not want to view. This results anonymous outcome in the future.  

3. Bullying, trolls, and cyber crime:

Anyone who much spends time on internet has encountered trolls and abusive image. This may results cyber bullying.

Hackers can hack the systems of companies and industry. Making fraud, Flittering, abusing, and many non social activities may happen and this results to social cyber crime.

4. Affects on your focus and patience:

The sites we use on the Internet every day have an "instant gratification" effect. They also present an endless menu of things to think about and experience at any moment, on demand. Getting information this way rewards fast-paced thinking that shifts focus quickly, which affects your interactions in general, making you more impatient and less focused on your activities. Try to balance this natural effect with time away from social media and focused on more productive real-life activities like exercise or cleaning.

5. Loneliness, social isolation & depression:

Spending much time on internet results to loneliness. Person is not roaming in society. He only wants to play with internet anytime. This directs to social isolation and in last person goes into depression.

6. Health issues and obesity:

Fatness and many kind of health problem will rise on users who used internet very much time. They may victim of long run diseases which will not recovered.

Conclusion:

Everything has positive and negative aspects. Both the parts are should be evaluate and consider which part we need to follow for success. Spending much time on internet may results such kind of negative impacts on human world.  Much different kind of cyber crime, hacking, and online crime are the examples of it. Persons who are always engaged in internet at time of sleeping, eating, riding and doing task makes non social. He enjoys alone in his own world and he forgets about his family and society. Guardians cannot focus attention on their children and children also can’t on their study. Everybody forgets their real work and just play with internet. This may really creates the vicious issues in upcoming days.

Hence, we have to control our habits our self and make sure only a little time will spend on internet as much as needed. Internet is necessary but not essential. Use it like blessing not boredom. Do not let internet kill your time. Make your time fruitful on internet.

                                                      “Thank you”

References:

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