10 years ago, the term internet was practically anonymous to most people. And today internet has become the most powerful tool ever for humanity throughout the world. The internet is a collection of various services and resources.

Although, many people still think e-mail and World Wide Web as the principle constituents of internet, there is lot more in store than e-mail, chat rooms, celebrity web sites and search engines. It also became the best business tool of modern times. Today internet has brought a globe in a single room. Right from news across the corner of the world, wealth of knowledge to shopping, purchasing the tickets of your favorite movie-everything is at your fingertips. Internet has great potential and lots to offer… however, like every single innovation in science and technology, internet has its own advantages and disadvantages.

Advantages

1 - Communication
2 - Information
3 - Entertainment
4 - Services
5 - Ecommerce

Disadvantages

1 - Theft of personal information
2 - Spamming
3 - Virus threat
4 - Services
5 - Pornography: This is perhaps the biggest threat related to your children’s healthy mental life. A very serious issue concerning the internet. There are thousands of pornographic sites on the internet that can be easily found and can be a detrimental factor to letting children use the Internet.