Final Exam Blog Post

For the Final Exam Blog, I will pick number 3 for responding.
Here is my final blog of this semester!!

Internet has been dramatically wide spreading in our society today. Everyone use Internet to communicate with people from all over the world, shopping, playing online games, downloading movies and songs, and having fun with Facebook or Twitter so-called Social Network Systems. Many of people say that the Internet is the best invention today. I think so too. The reason is that is because I can communicate with friends or people on SNS site such as Facebook. For example, the article “Facebook makes people more social”  states that “Facebook brings all our different networks and social scenes together. We present ourselves in different ways, whether to friends, co-workers, or family”. In fact most people have a trouble with enlarging social network, or making friends or communicating with people. However, the Internet especially SNS brings our social connection bigger. In addition, Japan has huge issue of communication among people. Japanese SNS solve the problem and enhance the chance to enlarge social connections. For example, the article “Mixi, Japan’s Biggest Social Network” from the web site says Mixi is the biggest social networking site in Japan, and it’s growing rapidly and has 4.8 million users. So that, after Japanese SNS, mixi introduced, Japanese people started to enlarge the social connection. I strongly think that the best aspect of the Internet is SNS and communicating with people and enlarging social connections.

However, I assume that not many people realize the worst aspects of the Internet. Obviously Internet has a lot of advantage and best aspects, but there are many negative effects as well. I believe that the worst aspect of the internet is Malware and cyber-attack, which we covered a lot in our class. I have already mentioned in my old blog about I got Malware when I was staying at hotel in NYC. If it is just individual case, then it would not hart many people; however, if Malware attack companies or governments, then so many people will get negative impact. For example, the article “Industry body'scomputers used in cyber-attacks on Kawasaki Heavy” says that Japanese well-known company “Kawasaki heavy” almost get cyber-attack. In that case, Kawasaki Heavy could prevent the cyber-attack, but if they could not, then they will probably see the nightmare. In addition, my favorite SNS, Facebook also have possibilities to get malware. According to the website‘Facebook’ Malware Now Spreads Using BitTorrent, But Don’t Panic  says that Facebook have chance to get cyber-attack. According to this article, when someone try to connect and share with Facebook friends, then malware would attack. Therefore, malware and cyber-attack would be the worst aspects of the Internet I believe because it is violate people's privacy, and also devastate the individual computers.

Therefore, I believe that the best aspect of the Internet is that it enable to communicate with people easily  and enlarge social connections, and the worst aspects of the Internet is Malware and Cyber-attack. So that we must realize that the Internet is very useful but it is also have huge negative impacts.

Thank you very much for reading my final blog post.

Have a great X'mas break!!