Essays on Using The Internet

INTERNET BUSINESS

Abstract: A usage of internet has become popular in the field of business. E-business is the business which the business owners can sell and buy the products over the internet. It keeps the preserve to hold the position on the competitive market. It helps to increase the role of internet and increase the market share. With the help of websites, the startup business has been utilized the essential characteristics of the business facility provided on the internet business. The improvement of information technology in the internet business plays an active role in the startup business. It offers online service ...

INTRODUCTION

Children have long been a target of consumerism and marketing. Their young, immature minds are taken as the ideal grounds for expanding businesses and victimizing them into becoming the future consumers and materialists of the country. However, it is true that marketing to children is a gigantic social problem which also encompasses ethical and moral standards of individuals as well as of the growing children. There are many factors which promote child consumerism and there are several repercussions of this action. Children are individuals who need to be kept away from these environmental pressures and be allowed to grow ...

Introduction

Sustaining a business can be a challenging task especially during the times when it needs to change its strategies or adopt new approached. That is why, it is important that business owners must be open to any forms of business model changes in order to sustain the profitability and save the business itself. Thus, changing the model of the business can be done through development of short-term change and long-term change. The purpose of this study is to present two change models that are applicable for both short and long-term changes of Sea Treasure, a small group of retails ...

Internet Privacy

Computer privacy has been becoming a major topic in various people’s eyes. The majority of people define privacy as being free from being seen and not disturbed by others and there. There are also people that define privacy as controlling how a person’s personal information is collected, used, and distributed. When Companies and social media are in the picture that is when the gray area really comes into play. Social media is defined as websites and applications that allow users to participate in social networking by creating and sharing content with people they communicate with new people, ...

Is Google making is Stupid

Introduction The article analyzes the way the internet has taken over our whole world and developed a world where we are completely reliant on using the internet for everything we need. The internet has created a world around us that has led us humans to stop thinking anymore, rather use the internet for anything as their thinking device. The worst part is that the internet provides an easy pass to people and makes them lazy and dependent. The article provides a brief analysis of the situation at hand and how humans are becoming stupider with time. Today, people cannot ...

Psychology

Implications of Internet to Children Introduction The advent of technological evolution particularly in the wide popularity of the Internet led to the various changes in the way people communicate access information. Children in particular are exposed to these technologies, but at the cost of their development. The shirt discussion will highlight the implication of Internet towards children in terms of their relationship to other people. In addition, the discussion will also determine the dangers that children are exposed to in using the Internet, and what the parents and churches can do to ensure their security.

Implication to Social Behavior

The Internet affect the ...

INTERNET AND DEMOCRACY

Internet and Democracy The internet has an impact on all aspects of life. Its impact on democracy is quite evident. Thus, the Internet should not be viewed as a single asset of interconnected computers with links and relevant protocols but a powerful tool that can impinge on almost every aspect of life. While some people may use it for different purposes, it can be said that the internet has a great effect on democracy. However, the biggest puzzle is whether it enhances democracy or contributes to its decline. However, most research carried out is rather normative as opposed to ...

Internet Marketing: The importance of using the internet as a marketing tool

Introduction The purpose of this paper is to not only point out the importance of the internet as a marketing tool but also to highlight the implications of the web on business decision-making processes. The internet has provided a rare opportunity for companies throughout the world to move their operations beyond the physical constraints of the traditional product distribution channels creating an enormous wealth of possibilities for businesses to exploit (Kiang and Chi). Today, the web today has more than 77% rates of penetration in most advanced markets with the emerging markets such as China, Brazil, and India accounting ...

There is little doubt that the field of dating has taken a different turn since internet use has become almost universal. There are now a myriad of web sites that cater to those who want to seek love online. These include eHarmony and Match.com, and apps such as Score and “Happn”. This is in addition to the proliferation of social media usage such as Facebook and Twitter. In fact, 27% of 18-24 year olds now use online dating sites, and 5% of married or committed couples met online (Smith and Anderson, n.p.). Despite the greater use of online dating, ...

Business Enterprise Plan

Business Enterprise Plan

The gift market is not limited to specific customers, as the trends changed in thebusiness world the way of doing businesses changed as well. The two major markets for “Smiles for Miles” can be the individual givers of gifts and the corporate sector clients. However, in KSA expecting gifts from strangers or people who are not close is considered embarrassing as gifts are more frequently accepted from close friends. Therefore, individual gift givers will be the primary market for the business. The secondary market of “Smiles for Miles” will be corporate clients. In Saudi Arabia, businesses ...

Issues and Impacts of Online Social Networking Sites

Issues and Impacts of Online Social Networking Sites Today, in the century of well-developed technology, we all got used to do everything with the help of special machines and computers. Computers play the most significant part in the life of human being. It helps us to do everything quickly and accurately by automating many tasks, which would take several days or months to complete manually, but now they can be done with the click of one button. Comparing with the previous decade, today our life got easier and became more interesting. Computers have changed our life completely. Earlier, ...

Introduction

Internet has changed our lives in many ways; the information technology has made modern, well-developed and advanced world where life gets easier than ever before. People use internet technology for attaining information in the most inexpensive and easiest way. The study suggests that around 900 million people in the world are using the internet (Masci 1998, 14). This is one of the best medium of communication. However, the question arises, are there any challenges associated with internet privacy or security or not? The internet privacy is defined as a status in which individual’s information is not being accessed without ...

The internet can be a helpful tool both academically and socially. However, there are some grave risks linked with utilizing the internet and other technology. Just like the real world, children and young individuals are susceptible and may intentionally or innocently expose themselves to peril while using the internet. This paper aims to show the internet contributes to date rape of children and possible prevention procedures.

The coming up of sites like Facebook, Twitter and MySpace has totally changed the way people commune with one another other and the world around them. These revolutionary sites have power-driven the present day ...

Heath offers insights for use in the dissertation study for investigating any difficulties in the area of Americans learning Arabic. This study specifically addresses the learner and his/her creativity in Arabic communicative competence as it applies toward competently completing both the DLI course and the OPI (Heath, 1987).

Alptekin (2002) discusses the notion of communicative competence that suggests that native-speaker competence is the metric by which communicative competence is decided. Alptekin argues that this particular norm creates an unrealistic and utopian model for language learning that makes it impossible for SLA to be considered complete or sufficient. Native speakership ...

The Internet is changing and we are changing, too. Chris Anderson and Michael Wolff wrote in their August 17, 2010 article in Wired, “The Web Is Dead. Long Live the Internet” about the way the Internet is changing from being browser-focused to app-focused. Nicholas Carr writes in his July 2008 article in The Atlantic, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” that use of the Internet is changing the people who use the Internet. Like these writers say, it is not a surprise that when people develop a technology like the Internet, they will change it and that it will also ...

Introduction

The recent technological innovation brought many changes in the society over the past century. The twentieth century is a period of technological change; almost everything is not permanent and constantly evolving in order to make the society a better place to live. In the earlier days, man has only known few methods of communication; however, in the modern era, man had already explored the universe bringing forth the latest gadgets to support their needs. In addition, the invention of the World Wide Web is in fact the most helpful tool to search for countless of online information from around the world. ...

Question 1

What about the internet, personally, do you find most beneficial? That is to say, "What makes the internet, the internet to you?"

Response 1

Personally, internet is most beneficial in connecting to other people and different communities around the world. The people who enjoyed the products of the Internet can testify fully that Internet is one of the widespread treasures in the modern technology. The enjoyment depends on the person’s interest. One thing for sure is that Internet provides unlimited opportunities to explore the world. Internet has many important things to browse to boost knowledge, skills, and creativity as a person ...

Introduction

In the course of time, there has been a substantive increase in the number of people using the internet globally. The internet serves as a platform that facilitates the realization of a wide range of objectives. There are countries that appreciate the essence of the internet thus they have included the access to the internet as part of their constitutional rights. Nations that are characterized by a relatively high level of internet penetration record higher levels of growth than countries that are embodied by comparatively low levels of internet penetration. This serves as an indicator of the rate of internet penetration can be a ...

Is technology making us more alone?

The 21st century has seen an increase in the use of technology. Scenarios of individuals walking while listening to their iPods, people at restaurants using their iPads or mobile phones are common. Young children at homes are increasingly playing video games. In colleges and other institutions of higher learning, students are increasingly using technology devices such as the iPod, to listen to music between classes and also sometimes during lectures. Based on different literature, there are very differing views on whether technology does cause social isolation or whether it increases social interaction. How technology leads to social isolation or ...

Today, in the century of well-developed technologies, all people tend to use electronic devices, particularly computers. Computers play one of the main parts of our everyday life. We got used to do everything with the help of computers. They have changed our lives completely. They can be used for a range of purposes. We work, study, listen to music, browse the Internet, contact with our friends, play games, watch and even make films using computers. Moreover, nowadays, we even do shopping staying at home. We search for the things from the Internet and easily can order it without going to ...

Introduction

Headquartered in the City of Westminster, London, Marks and Spencer Plc. is one of the leading British multi-channel retailers of garments and high quality food products. Founded in 1884 by Thomas Spencer and Michael Marks, the company has 766 stores in the UK alone with 361 more stores spread across globally in over 50 nations (M&S #3 2014). With about 82,000 employees worldwide, the company aims to provide an excellent shopping experience to its customers, whether in stores, by phone or online. The company seeks to follow a green way of doing its business and hence it has engaged ...

Undeniably, the invention of internet has been known as one of the most amazing inventions in the world. The internet had had so much impact on peoples’ everyday lives, businesses, and events. The term internet is used to refer to the universal meeting place, where people from different parts of the world can come together and share ideas. This paper is going to focus on the advantages and disadvantages of the use of the internet.

Advantages of the internet

The internet has and endless list of advantages that have contributed into make life easier for many people, as well as, contributing towards making ...

EVANSVILLE ARC INDUSTRIES

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This report is a combination of the strategic assessment of Evansville ARC using which the discrepancies of the business will be rectified. With the analysis, new strategies will be defined using which the excelling prospects of the organization will be studied. In this report, the company profile and the background of the business will be assessed. Based on the current position of the organization the further goals and objectives that the business wishes to acquire will be analyzed. This report presents a discussion of the strengths, weaknesses and challenges which the firm is facing currently. Using this all ...

What is the Story about?

The new marketing story is about that marketing strategy employed by a single firm, Apple Inc. The new in the article does not center on the wider implications of the telecommunications market even though there are mentions of other market players within the industry. The company is launching a new product into the market; the iPhone 6 ready to be sold to any willing buyers in the market. As part of the marketing campaign adopted by the company, the company is lowering prices for the consumers who buy the old iPhone 5S device online to help finish current stock that the ...

Global Citizenship – The School of the Future

Other Details Global Citizenship – The School of the Future

Introduction

Citizenship refers to the right of an individual to live, work, and participate politically in a specific geographic area. Global citizenship defines the individual who considers his identity with the global community superior to his identity with a particular area. This identity transcends all geographic boundaries of state, country, or city. A global citizen does not renounce his citizenship of the city, state, or country to which he belongs. He merely places his global responsibilities and duties above those towards his country (Israel, 2012). In the world of education, global citizenship ...

Introduction1

Ethics in Researcp The Reality of Plagiarism3 Ensuring Academic Honesty8 Conclusion9

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List of Figures and Tables Figure 1: College students’ ethical views on plagiarism5 Figure 2: College students actually committing acts of plagiarism5 Figure 3: Percentage of HS students who cheated6 Figure 4: Percentage of HS students who plagiarized6 Figure 5: Percentage of HS students who cheated and plagiarized7 Figure 6: Plagiarism among undergraduates and graduate students7 Academic Honesty in Conducting Research Studies Introduction Plagiarism has always been a problem in the academic field, particularly in the area ...

While bullying is not a new element of concern it is certainly changing with increase in diversities in the use of computers, smart phones, and network. The reason behind its popularity in the recent times is as a result of it happening in more places and more people than ever before. In the past, bullying only happened at schools or neighborhoods, and by children or teenagers. Currently, as the use of social media and internet increases, children, teenagers, and adults are bullied in all locations and time. Cyber bullying can be defined as “willful and repeated harm inflicted through the use ...

Introduction

The cosmetic industry in the U.S alone is valued at over $56 billion, it is therefore not surprising when the industry players exploit all possible ways of increasing their market share. It is critical to identify the right technique to advertise to the masses and get your product noticed. In this fast paced world, e-commerce sales in the beauty industry grew by a massive 25.4 per cent between 2005 and 2010. It is therefore evident that the modern cosmetics shopper is now using the internet more than ever. The report ‘Marketing Beauty with Internet Beast’ by Mary Kemp shows that ...

In the digital disconnect, McChesney describes the digital age in the contemporary society in two in the perception of the two kinds of people. He terms those who calls for digital technologies to advance global democracy and nurture innovations worldwide as celebrants. Contrary to the celebrants are the skeptics who worry about the changes that are brought about by the technology. The skeptic’s argument is that the technology is recreating to think in a particular way hindering their creativity or lowering the level of their intelligence. According to him, the two outlooks are flawed since they both do not ...

ABSTRACT

Brand image or identity refers to the view or perception of a brand not only based on its offerings and services, but also on its values and culture as perceived primarily by consumers. Organizations may utilize brand image to accomplish its goals or objectives by structuring an image that is interesting and acceptable to customers. In recent years, one of the ways that organizations consistently market or advertise their brand involves social media. The primary objective of this research study is to explore best practices in social media marketing towards brand image or perception management. To obtain data, the researcher ...

Introduction

Entrepreneurship is the process of creating, organizing and managing a business undertaking in order to get profit. The most common type of entrepreneurship is starting of new business enterprises. Entrepreneurship is exemplified by innovation and taking of risks. Entrepreneurs are essential to the nation’s growth and development. They ought to be creative in the modern times because of the stiff competition and a constantly changing market. Knowing what business to start is as crucial as running the business itself.

Current Economic Situation

In recent years, the U.S. has experienced a recession. The economy was brought to its knees and many businesses crumbled. Currently, the ...

Abstract

Internet is becoming a most usual thing in every household. Many internet enthusiasts support the use of internet in household, but there are also some internet alarmists who think that internet is not good for the cognitive, social, and psychological development of children. Internet is like a sea of knowledge and data. As the sea contains many types of fishes, some of them very little, some very big, and some of them very dangerous and lethal, internet is the same kind of technology where there are many good and bad resources of media and data. In this study, we will try ...

The widening of digital divide

The development of technology is growing rapidly. The Internet has become the strongest power to change and reshape individuals’ life. However, there are three major variables that may lead the enormous gap of the digital divide between those who regularly have access to the internet and those who do not. The sociological variables associated with the digital divide are education, age and gender. The term digital divide can be understood as referring to a range of different phenomena. On the other hand, it can be understood as referring to the unequal use and access to the internet. On the ...

Introduction

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the social phenomenon that is the widening of the digital divide in Canada. This paper will attempt to define the term digital divide in an effort to offer a proper understanding of the subsequent sections of this paper which form the gist of this paper. Section one of this paper will describe the social issue that is the widening of the digital divide in Canada. This will be followed by a description of three sociological factors that may be propelling this divide. The third section will analyse the consequence of this social phenomenon ...

Introduction

Information Technology has transformed major areas of human life. Technology has made it easier for humans to communicate and interact with each other. Infusing classrooms with digital learning materials such as computers, hand held devices and the internet increases student-to-student interaction as well as student-teacher interaction (Bitner & Bitner, 2002). Interaction forms the basis of learning as through it students get to discuss educational materials with each other (Sharma & Barrett, 2011). Students also tend to initiate discussions with the teachers, therefore, understanding of the course’s contents. Information technology makes this educational interaction faster than it is without technology whereby ...

Ipv6 Deployment Case Studies

Figure 1: Graphical internet usage trend 9 Figure 2: IPv6 tunneling 11 Figure 3: Data routing 13 Figure 4: Internet protocol suite 15

Introduction

In the midst of the number of IPv4 addresses almost entirely depleted, the realization of IPv6 has become a prime concern for many organizations. However, it is not possible to, immediately, change the whole thing over to IPv6 without a few transitions. This Paper takes a look at the ways that can be used to successfully transit to IPv6 from IPv4 among other deployment issues.

Section 1: IPv6 deployment strategy

The global IPv6 deployment recently made a significant milestone on the internet. ...

Introduction

The internet has affected many industries with the ease of access to information and the enhancement of communication channels. The media has also been affected by the internet. With the ease of getting information from the internet, the media content is becoming easy to get. One of the disadvantages that the internet has brought to the media industry is the piracy which has been made more profound with the use of this new technology. The internet has become a medium through which media content can be accessed and abused. This is becoming an issue to the content producers. The artists ...

Introduction:

The media is an important source of information. The media has become very influential in modeling people’s lives through different decades. The society today thrives on the media a reliable source where they get informed. The coming of new media has become more influential in the recent days. Social media has become very influential and has been used by everyone across the board for business and recently politicians have turned to the social media as a way of furthering their agenda. Many of the elite groups of politicians have used the media to reach out and organize their supports. Many ...

Law

Based on the article of Cerf (2012), he stated that internet access is not either a civil right or a human right. Internet access is powered by technology and technology is a means to enable rights, but cannot be considered as a right in itself. Cerf (2012) equates human right to one that refers to critical freedom or liberties guaranteed under the Constitution such as the freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of access to information among others. Internet access is only a precondition for enjoying a number of human rights. The transformative nature of the internet does not only enable the individuals to ...

The internet is an integral part of modern communication. Yet it is also the source of many security issues of private information because of its widespread nature and availability. These security issues are associated partly to the inherent characteristics of the internet and to human error (Holden, 2003). The advancement of technology has allowed services and items to be delivered through the internet by collecting information. However, such information comes with a price. In exchange of convenience, consumers become targets to cybercrimes because of the information they provide (i.e. bank account information, address, and personal identity) (Sicari, 2013). Indeed, protecting ...

Arguably, advancement of technology has affected the world in various ways. It is worth noting that e-commerce has made the global business activities very dynamic. As a matter of fact, the new technologies continue to shape the e-commerce and other various activities in the world. Electronic commerce is one of the common ways of undertaking business transactions today. The impacts of electronic commerce are far much reaching, and continue to cause changes in the world of business. The e-commerce is a realistic business experience and a crucial aspect of modernization and globalization. The business world is becoming very competitive, and for this ...

Introduction

Technology can be considered one of the greatest inventions of the modern era. Part of it is the internet technology in which provides numerous amounts of benefits to people around the world in terms of communication, business and making people’s lives easier and faster. However, with the internet’s numerous benefits to people’s modern life, there are also many claims saying that internet has negative effects to humans especially to children. These are the young ones who may have access to the wide range of information found on the internet, including explicit and inappropriate contents such as ...

In the modern world, internet forms a center stage for nearly all activities and aspects in the social, political and economic dimensions of the society. For example, it plays an imperative role for schools, governments, business enterprises and individuals. It has transformed the global culture creating a new cultural experience not only for corporate firms, government and adults, but also children within homes and at school. It has been adopted in schools as a learning enhancement tool and as a means of communication transforming social interactions in the society. Additionally, it has been used as a means through which people take advantage of greater ...

The internet has brought the world into a global economy. Internet marketing means the promoting and advertising the products through the World Wide Web. The internet reduces the time for transactions. Thus, there is an increase in productivity per unit time. Through the internet, many businesses have access to the whole world and have international clients in their businesses. The internet enhances communication of the parties involved and viewing the products online before delivering them. Clients requiring customized products communicate through the internet and send samples through the internet for customization . This has greatly reduced the communication costs. Moreover, the ...

Obscenity

The case of Miller v. California, 413 U.S. 15, 27 (1973) is the case where the Supreme Court has laid down a three-prong test called the “Miller Test” to determine if a work is obscene. The Miller Test is composed on the following questions: 1.) whether the average person who shall apply cotemporary community standard will find that the work when taken in its entirety appeals to the indecent interest; 2.) whether the work describes a sexual conduct that is patently offensive and violates a particular statute; and 3.) when the work when taken in the holistic approach is inadequate of literary, artistic, ...

It is true that there are various ways through which spoofing can be prevented. Some of the leading ways of preventing spoofing include the use of the secured connections, encryption of information, among a plethora of authentication methods. Nonetheless, even with the existence of such elaborate ways to avert parodying in the internet, the existing methods are still unable to promise internet users of a formidable internet security. Cyber criminals target anyone using the internet and businesses too are not exempted. The Online Trust Alliance, abbreviated OTA is a Seattle based non-profit making group headed by Craig Spiezle (once a Microsoft executive) ...

3. Describe the competitive strategies used by each of Williams-Sonoma's competitors. Which of these strategies are the most effective? Support your answer. The competitive strategies of Crate & Barrel directly match the strategies of Williams-Sonoma, especially in the retail outlets, use of catalogs and website. It however focused on cheaper products that customers could afford. This price strategy could be effective in capturing the price sensitive market, of which Williams-Sonoma was not too much entrenched. On the other hand, Restoration Hardware was noted to compete directly with William-Sonoma’s Pottery Barn, especially in targeting the wealthiest clientele. Likewise, ...

- INFORMATION OVERLOAD (discussion 1) Some of the ways in which I experience information overload at school is by being allocated large amounts of homework that I am expected to complete in a short time. In addition, the coverage of large amount of information by the instructor sometimes makes it difficult to grasp the material that is taught. This scenario is also exemplified in the work place. If there is a lot of work to be completed in a short time, it is difficult for quality work on to be done due to the information overload. - WEB SOURCE (discussion ...

The 21st century has been characterized by rapid development in technology. A notable field that has experienced several innovations and inventions during this period is digital technology. It is essential to note that the research in digital technology begun in the 20th century but the most remarkable advances have been made in the 21st century. Sociologists point out that increased technological research has been facilitated by the beneficial attributes of innovations achieved. Sociologists, however, highlight that technological advancements, especially in the digital field, have also resulted in several negative impacts (Messina and Iwasaki 163). One such detriment of technological ...

Compare and Contrast between the Three Articles 'Is Google making us Stupid?' (Core article), 'Mind over Mass Media' and 'Internet May be Changing Brains'. Everyone loves Google! One of the principal reasons is that it delivers information within a second. Google delivers information that is useful for everyone. When one uses the search engine to search for information, Google provides the user with much information. Everyone who is computer literate widely use Google. Students, teachers, doctors, lawyers and engineers use Google engine to search for information in the internet. This evidently shows that Google is part of everyone’s’ ...

The Internet as a Business Tool

You have a business that’s doing OK but you feel could be making you a lot more money than it is at the moment. So what can you do that’s within your budget, to bring in those customers and more sales? You know that advertising costs mega-cash (that you just don’t have!). You also know that you can’t afford to set up a telesales operation, employing staff to make thousands of calls to find those elusive “qualified” buyers. So can the Internet solve your problems? Well, it certainly can help. For most businesses, having a website is at ...

Introduction

When compared to the general population, it can be said that college students heavily make use of the Internet (Jones 2). Internet usage is usually a part of their everyday routine, partially because computers have been a part of their lives while they were growing up. It has become a part of their everyday communication habits and has become as ordinary a technology as televisions or telephones.

According to Jones (2), 20% of college students began using computers at the age of 6 or 7 such that by the time they reach the ages of 16 or 18, they would already be very ...

The internet is defined as a system interconnected globally using IP/TCP referred to as the standard internet protocol (Cavanagh 7). The origin of the technology was in 1960 where the US government partnered with commercial entities to build networks that were faultless, robust, and distributed. However, since the sixties the technology has transformed the social life of humans. Nowadays, the internet is a common technology at home and work. America online recorded that 76% of people use the internet at home, while the rest at work. These have resulted in both negative and positive changes in social life (1). The aspects ...

1. Industry Overview-

The Australian internet industry has been following a trend of increase in growth for many years. In 2010 the Australian internet access market reached a value of $6.3 billion dollars and in the same year had 7.5 million users in Australia alone (Internet Access in Australia 2011, p.2). Predictions from the same source also indicate a continuing growth in this trend with the internet becoming an increasing part of private and personal use in Australia. Product: It focuses that the right product should be developed for the market. The products may be a service, a good or can be both. ...

1.0 Introduction

Since the invention of computers and development of internet, there has been an unimaginable transformation in our society. The internet has two characteristics that no other invention has; first it provides the most extensive source resource of information in the entire world and second it provides people with an interactive interface to instantly communicate with each other. In this new world of internet connectivity geographical separation is no longer a barrier, people can share information, their experiences, ideas, suggestions, and problems, try to exert influence and get fast responses and reactions from friends and strangers as well and feedback that ...

Internet privacy, in its basic form, refers to the protection of users’ personal information from spiteful use and access by unwarranted individuals. Since its advent, the Internet has grown to become one of the most preferred means of communication by consumers, its preference increasing by the day. However, as instituted by research, the Internet, besides the numerous benefits accruable from its usage, is accompanied by a number of inferential setbacks with the privacy issue arguably being the most encountered. The all-encompassing concerns with regards to Internet privacy predominantly revolve around issues like access of user information by web operators as ...

Introduction

Invading the privacy of businesses, institutions, and people, social engineering creates criminal acts using telephones, illegally accessing private information via computer accounts called "hacking", stealing bank account information, as well as eavesdropping are social engineering crimes. Two types of social engineering exist, including, human and technological based (Peltier, 2010). Social engineering uses deception, manipulating people into giving them personal information including social security and bank account numbers (Halles, 2008). Social engineers use tactics to extract private information including appealing to people's vanity, authority, look, over peoples' shoulders while entering pin numbers, and eaves drop. In his article, "Mitigating the ...

Introduction

Internet has a wide variety of information to choose from. It has many benefits to our livelihood. It is one of the major sources of information we have existing today. However, just as Sigmund Freud said that “dogs love their friends and bite their enemies,” internet also can be of much benefit to us but can on the other hand, be very disastrous. Lives have been changed a great deal by what people see in the internet. People who have been affected most are the youths. It is necessary that one gets good internet education before using the internet in order ...