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Cyberspace a Place of Risk
Summary: Internet can become a dangerous utility that disconnects us with reality. We will first show how it is a danger at a cultural level, as it alters the language and leaves no trace. Then we will show how it is also a danger at a technological and professional level, because of many junk email and viruses. Finally we will show how communicating in cyberspace leads to personal and psychological problems, for instance how it leads to problems of identity.
The revolution on new technologies, for instance Internet, has always helped our world and our society to evolve. Internet was at the beginning created for a source of information to be shared. It was a new kind of dictionary and encyclopaedia reunited. Then Internet was used for a new function: communication. Email, blogs, discussion groups and instant messaging were invented for the pleasure of everyone. At the same time it brought a new problem in our society, a problem of identity.
In this paper we will attempt to show that Internet communication is a place of danger and risk because we do not know for sure whom we are communicating with. However we must take into consideration that this view will not meet with universal approval. Indeed, there will be many who will say that Internet is more an interactive tool that helps communicate with others.
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