The Internet was developed due to early communication needs, requiring mass amount of information to be carried across different parts of the world. Many forms of important documentations such as mail, parcels, etc. require the average person to spend considerable amounts of money to send communication materials to various places. Thus, the idea of a simpler and more productive means to not only reach the distributors, but the consumers as well resulting in the social inter-reaction for people to meet in the majority on a safer level and to keep in contact with family and friends. The creation of the Internet and its resources has now developed as the most significant form of communication in today's society. Originally used nearly over 15 years ago for province of science, engineering, and business; the Internet has been promoted as a gateway to information and communication across the globe. Through the Internet we meet new people, make new friends, thus creating a global village, therefore expanding past limitations as to how we socialise. However, it can be said that this may not entirely be the case. That the Internet has indeed become a tool of destruction to a variety of areas in peoples lives, such as those who choose to abuse their rights and privileges by what they look up. Thus, it can be believed that the Internet, rather than providing social skills and learning, has been created from social decay.
So it the Internet a tool of social integration or decay?.
A vast amount of scholars, technologists and social critics say that the Internet is changing and transforming the economic and social life of the citizens of today. Some of them even go as far as to argue that the Internet is the cause of social isolation and being "cut off" from genuine social relationships. The result of this is the breakdown of local social values and ending up becoming socially dysfunctional and therefore in the long run having no-one to turn to except for the computer screen and what "it" has to provide.
