Electronic mail sends an instant message to someone's inbox at the touch of a button. ... The Internet is full of viruses and hackers. Hackers can send viruses to your PC and, unless you have a virus checker, you cannot correct the damage it does. ... Eventually it will be too hard to use search engines because it will just give you so many sites; far too many to sort through. ... Any site could set themselves up, tricking you into giving them your credit card details so that they can steal money off you. ...

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Although junk mail can always be deleted, this exposure does not protect us from computer viruses. ... (Stoddart) This can cause important messages to be seen by someone other than the intentional person. ... This is useful as it gives a customer control over their information including their own e-mail address. ... It gives customers who are educated about the topic a sense of being observed all the time. ... In e-mails, there should be a system that protects computer user's e-mail address from junk mail and computer viruses. ...

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Negative aspects of internet communication During face-to-face communication we rely heavily upon facial expressions, tone of voice, and body language to interpret what someone is saying. ... Body language gives us clues as to whether the person we are talking with is actually listening to us, if they are interested in the conversation, or if they are bored. ... Now it's just as easy for someone to communicate with someone of the opposite sex, but the conversations advance much more rapidly. ... Adults and teenagers are both at risk of getting computer viruses, unwanted email, and u...

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When someone does not want to insult in person, e-mail message can be brutal, and also "Instead of crafting the perfect phrase, we use a brain-dead abbreviation" (232). ... They may be some negative like receiving a lot of junk mail; also the text messages may often include sexually explicit images, violence, gambling, abusive languages, virus. ... It may be true to some extent, because once our modem is infected with computer virus, our whole saved message will be wiped off and this is a major problem in the computer world. ... Even though they give an identity, one can't be 100% sure o...

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It may not seem like it but it is completely possible to build a personal profile on someone just by tracking him or her in cyberspace. ... There is a much more devious way that someone can gain access to information on a user's hard-drive. ... It is possible for someone to write a program using Java that transfers data from the user's computer back to the website without the user ever being aware of anything being taken. ... Many people do not realize that they often give information to websites by doing something called direct disclosure. ... In a survey conducted by Computer Secur...

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• Grade Level: High School