Question- Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of Internet.

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1. What are the advantages of Internet?

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Advantages of Internet

These are as under-

1. Internet Promotes economy and efficiency : The cost of establishing and maintaining the website is far less than off line trading: The website provides user information more quickly, in a more timely manner and the convenience.

2. Internet Promotes a paper less environment : All the information which an enterprise wants to communicate to customers are communicated electronically with the help of Internet.

3. Interactive Survey: Internet promotes interactive surveys. The users opinions can be gathered anywhere as it provides real-time data.

4. Facilitates online communication : Computer users around the world make extensive use of e-mail service on the Internet to communicate with each other. Many users also use "chat" facility to communicate with each other. The internet sites facebook.com provides, "chat" facility. With e-mail and chat facilities, the internet has become a rapid and productive communication tool.

5. Facilitates Software sharing : The Internet provides access to a large number of shareware software, development tools, and utilities.

6. Electronic Bulletin Board : Users can use the internet as a large electronic bulletin board. They can post on it information of general interest to bring it to the attention of interested users. Some such information includes career opportunities, conference and event announcements, and calls for papers for conferences and journals.

7. Free and low price On-line journals, magazines, encyclopedia, and dictionary : The Internet has thousands electronic subscriptions found both for free and low cost. There are many WWW sites dealing with electronic versions of journals and magazines. There sites provide access to electronic encyclopedia and dictionary. For example, the internet edition of the Hindustan Times newspaper is available at the internet site. The site wikipedia.org provides an on-line encyclopedia and the site wiktionary.org provides an on-line dictionary..

8. Promotion of Product and feedback : Organizations also use the internet to promote their products and togather information about user satisfaction of existing products, market opportunities and ideas for potential products. An organization accomplishes this by putting up information about its products on its website, and having an interactive survey application on its website.

9. Exchange of views : The internet has a number of news groups. News group enables a group of users to exchange their views on some topic of common interest.

10. Web casting : Bussiness Organizations use the internet to distribute a single audio or video content to many simultaneous listeners or viewers. The act of using the internet for broadcasting of such content is called web casting. A web casting software distributes over the internet a media file to many listeners or viewers. It uses streaming media technology to do so. A web casting software distributes a media file either live or on-demand. E- learning programs use web casting to deliver lectures to an interested group with worldwide participation. Webinar is a new terminology, which refers to web casting of a seminar. Commercial organizations use web casting to make corporate presentations or announcements of their new products and services to their existing and prospective customers.

11. Facilitates online shopping : The internet facilitate a new market concept consisting of virtual shops. These shops remain open 24 hours and are accessible to purchasers all around the world. They provide information about products or services for sale. Using the internet services, customers submit specific product queries and request specific sales quotes. Through a well-defined authorization scheme, the virtual shops use the internet services to accept orders placed by customers, to handle order payments, and to track orders to fulfillment.

12. Facilitates video conferencing : The internet allows a group of users located around the globe to talk and interact with each other. The parties interacting can see each other talking on their computer screens and can hear each other's voice through a special audio-device.

Business firms create their own websites to disseminate timely. information about corporate happenings, product announcements, recent strategic alliances press releases, and other information. Business organizations also use the internet to provide timely customer support. The combined e-mail, ftp, and other services on the Internet provide necessary enabling tools.

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