Although the Internet has many pros it can also have many cons. Addiction is one of the biggest ones. Social media, online games, and other time consuming things are beginning to take over the youth of today. Todays generation of children spend more time in their virtual life than in their real lives.
Personal Information Compromised
People often put a lot of their personal information on the internet which is especially harmful. If you tell people that are not supposed to know about you personal information, and you tell them your personal information they can do many harmful things like identity theft. Identity theft crimes have gone up dramatically.
Distractions
Back in the olden days when the internet was not around reading and books were great sources of amusement and information. Today when the internet is used for information you get easily distracted. If you are working on a research project and you get distracted you are very well likely to do poorly on your project, You might even not get it done or forget.
Computer Viruses
Computer viruses are dangerous software's that are usually made on purpose. The viruses are very harmful, people can take all the information personal or not and make your life a living nightmare. They can take you personal information and well look to the right for more information on person information threats. They can take business information and make the business that you work for fail horribly! There are many types of computer viruses one type of a virus is a polymorphic virus. The polymorphic virus protects itself with code and encryption. To look at all the types go click on the button text below.