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The World Wide Web in the lives of our children. O

We live in the era of the future! The speed of progress has become so great that things that seem science-fiction today are considered outdated and backward tomorrow. And more and more the Internet is absorbing our lives. Social networks alone are worth it. You can correspond with friends and girlfriends who live a thousand miles away from us, get to know each other, show everyone your best photos, and please your vanity with “likes.” There are a lot of cool groups and communities where you can chat about interests and learn a lot of new things without leaving home, for every taste on social networks. You can’t think of a better way to diversify the gray everyday life for us lovely ones.

Social networks began to appear approximately in 1969. At first, people were united by professional interests and hobbies. Now the functions and capabilities of social networks have expanded significantly. Odnoklassniki is considered the very first official network, which was founded in 1995 and operates to this day. Odnoklassniki already has about 50 million users.

Imagine the scale!

Now you don’t even need a computer for this wonderful entertainment. Everyone has fashionable pocket gadgets for accessing the Internet, with heaps of all kinds of applications; for entertainment on the Internet, you can be online around the clock, and don’t care about addiction. Stop! What addiction?

The fact is that many people are so immersed in the virtual world of online communication that they can no longer imagine their lives without it. Sometimes this state reaches the point of fanaticism. Users start spending money on paid social networking services without realizing it. There are many reasons for this dependence: unfulfilled dreams, internal complexes, communication problems. In virtuality it is much easier to “draw” your fictitious ideal image for other users, besides, social networks provide a certain security when communicating, which is not the case in real life.

Is your online time slowly and surely approaching infinity? Here main signs of Internet addiction:

1. You have many “friends” and hundreds of groups. You won’t rest until you scroll through all the news to the end, give all the likes, and write comments on the new photos posted.

2. The lack of Internet and the ability to access social networks can overshadow your vacation at sea, a picnic with friends in nature, and make lectures at school unbearable.

3. You are replacing normal communication with virtual communication. On the street: “Hello, Masha!! Haven't seen each other for a hundred years!!! Write to me on **ntakt today, let’s chat at least. Bye!

4. You become indifferent to old hobbies. If you used to love surprising your family with culinary masterpieces, now you may not even finish cooking the dumplings, because your colleague posted photos from a corporate party, and you urgently need to “comment on them.”

5. You are online even at the expense of precious hours of sleep. Although you understand perfectly well that tomorrow unbearable workdays await you, because without enough sleep, you become irritable and very uncollected.

7. You add strangers as friends to feel part of society, to belong in the crowd.

8. Often you deliberately take interesting photos just to post them on your online page.

We offer some important tips on how to get rid of Internet addiction:

1. The most important thing is to want to get rid of this addiction and set a goal. Realize how much precious time you are wasting on this merciless and essentially useless “time killing”.

2. If possible, reduce the time you spend online. If you do go there again, for example, just carry on correspondence, excluding all other “opportunities” of the social network: viewing photos, news, comments.

3. Switch to live communication. Meet your old friends, “abandoned by you,” but so close and loved.

4. In your free minutes, replace sitting “online” with another activity, for example reading books, which will also be useful before bed.

5. One of the reasons for dependence on social networks is the lack of positive emotions in life. Try to find something exciting and positive in real life: new hobbies, His Majesty shopping will always give you a boost of positivity, travel and meeting people. And the main thing is to share these emotions with people, directly replacing the dry “status” with a lively smile among loved ones and friends!

6. If all these simple methods do not help, then you should consult a psychologist. After all, it is not always possible to cope with the problem of addiction on your own.

The idea of social networks itself is very interesting. They are a means of communication, a source of information and a way to be heard, but, as you know, everything should be in moderation, and social networks should not replace our real life, but complement it, making it more colorful.
Believe in yourself and you will succeed!

Now you will read some complete nonsense. It's your own fault. The Internet is a little less than completely full of nonsense. There was no point in climbing all sorts of other people’s blogs or, even worse, subscribing.

So I will tell you about the true essence of the Net. You will find out which demon you are feeding, along with a billion others, with your mana. But it's' too late!

The brief essence of the article in four theses:

The Web seeks to absorb and digest all information flows of humanity.

The web swallows people.

The web makes things easier for people.

The web affects social institutions.

Thesis No. 1
The Internet is such a thing...
No, bad. It is bad to call phenomena “things.” Let's define a small, not very correct, but loved by various marginalized people like the Peresleginites, concept: information and energy object. Comrades from Pereslegin’s school use this phrase to describe various social phenomena, such as, for example, bureaucratic machines. Usually, when examining them, they strive to separate the object from the human subjects that feed it. It is clear that the bureaucratic machine will instantly disappear if the bureaucrats that compose it are removed. In much the same way that a cloud of gas disappears, remove its constituent molecules. But physicists are inconvenient to study molecules separately, and sociologists and information objectologists are inconvenient to study separately people who support the “life” of some kind of superhuman formation. So, the definition is:

Information object- information that does not depend on the medium and develops according to its own laws, residing in the information space.

Information and energy an object, accordingly, is an information object that is powered by the energy of the carrier. The word “energy” is used here in a psychological sense, as “the life force of people,” that is, that difficult-to-measure substance that lives in the souls of each of us, which helps us move, be creative and think that life is not so meaningless. It’s unlikely that this energy can be measured in joules, but the word has stuck. Personally, I prefer the words Mana, Prana or Qi. But shouldn’t we call our objects information-mana? Let there be energy.

Please figure out what information space is for yourself. It’s not small, obvious things to explain to you. You don’t live in the forest, but in that very information space, by the way, and this space is the nerve of the powerful technosphere, reliably protecting us all from the horrors of the wild.

Again. Thesis No. 1

The Internet seeks to absorb and digest all information flows of humanity.

The Internet is a complex of many information and energy objects that has developed on the basis of well-known technologies and is the main consumer of their capabilities, connected into a single super-object by a common desire. The Internet seeks to absorb and digest all information flows of humanity. And this is the most important thing you need to know about him.

This desire is, apparently, embedded in the very essence of the World Wide Web. Each individual member of the Network, each site, search engine, blog, may not be aware of the goal of information takeover of the world. Google collects visit statistics, such as to more accurately show ads to visitors - this is true. But the objective reason why it is profitable for Google is not to sell the search service for money or places in the top impressions, or to do something similar, but it is profitable to collect as much information as possible and process it as accurately as possible in order to learn as much as possible about visitors its great catalog of links - in the deepest essence of the Internet universe.

All major Internet sites have the goal of collecting, processing, and doing something with some information, and the most valuable information is social, because nothing worries a person more than himself. Strain your mind, think about what else from the information flows of civilization that has not been captured by the Network? If you figure out at the same time how to capture these flows, you will be given all the benefits. You will become a startup founder, a useful person. The world will reward you.

Because the Internet is not just some naked desire to grab everything. Internet is force. This is the most important, most valuable, most complex thing that humanity has created in the first half of the twenty-first century. You see, energy doesn’t come from nothing. Christianity, the ancient great IEO, whose technological basis was a certain teaching, and whose goal was the salvation (in the Christian sense) of all human souls, absorbed the energy of the agony of Rome, and thanks to it it became what we know it. At birth, the Internet absorbed the energy of the agony of the great utopian projects of the twentieth century. It took two wars - the Second and the Cold - to develop computer technology to the level where the Network became possible, and it also took the death of the Soviet Union, so that on the wave of euphoria of liberation from the horror of nuclear missiles, on the wave of brilliant, well-trained mathematical emigrants from the former USSR, creative energy surged, filling the emerging technology with meaning. Thus the Web was born.

Again. This is the most important thing written here. The Internet is a force united by the main desire to absorb and digest all information flows of humanity. Everything follows from this.

Thesis No. 2

Man is the main source of information in human society. The information volume of everything that we invent and imagine, say and do many times exceeds the information volume generated by external forces affecting humanity, ranging from bird flights to solar flares. Of course, I mean only those natural phenomena that some people notice. Perhaps the volume of information about unnoticed phenomena is even higher by an order of magnitude, who knows? In any case, we all have approximately the same sky above our heads, and in order not to stare at it all our lives, we ourselves have to saturate the technosphere with information.

Thus, Thesis No. 2

The web swallows people.

Since man is the main source of information within humanity, the main subtask of the Web as a living and purposeful phenomenon is to train people in contact with it in such a way that they redirect flows of information through it.

The average person is in vain thinking about the freedom and independence of his powerful mind. We are very easy to train. Every psychologist knows what an absurdly enormous influence children's fears have. When he was a child, a little boy was bitten by a dog. He grew up, became a huge fat man, and could have killed three mongrels with one leg without straining too much - but trained childhood fear forces him to cross the road at the sight of a shaggy stray dog lying in the dust. The network does not bite us like a dog. On the contrary, it unfolds its countless riches before us, offers a thousand entertainments, and in the end hooks us firmly on the endorphin needle. Children are imprisoned more strongly, of course. The Web needs children, they will become adults, and maybe give it their whole lives. They will give up part of their life without question. It is more pleasant to communicate via the Internet. You can find out everything faster on the Internet. Everything is on the Internet. You can't be bored on the Internet. The network will accept you for who you are. Your friends will support you. They will like you. They will like your work. They will like your photos and your taste for reprinting jokes. And if you don’t want to, you will close yourself off from all your friends. Isn't that all you need?

Scary? So we haven’t reached the third thesis yet.

Thesis No. 3
The web makes things easier for people.

As you noticed from thesis No. 1, the most important thing in this whole little reflection, the Network strives not only to absorb, but also to digest all information flows in the world. Digesting is very important. This means to understand, to make it a part of yourself, not just some kind of information in the sense of a stream of bytes, but meaningful meta-data that can be used further. For example, how Google sells collects statistics for advertising. They really strive to make the machine understand what all these words entered into the search engine mean to the user. The whole essence of Google is hidden in this understanding. Unfortunately, along with the complication of algorithms for processing data streams by machines, there is also a downside. The fact is that in order to better understand what people want, it is not necessary to complicate the understanding. You can simplify the people themselves.

Let me remind you, thesis No. 2. We are excellent at training. Do you know why there is no dislike button on Facebook? It would complicate the communication model. From the point of view of the Web, introducing interface entities that force the masses to think about at least a choice between two buttons is a mistake. And in general, how are you going to build a post popularity metric to complete feeds if the like-dislike space is two-dimensional? Have you thought about this mathematically? So Facebook thought about it and decided - no need.

Of course, this is an extreme example. Each portal chooses whether to make tree-like comments, a self-assembled feed, or dislikes. There may be different approaches for different audiences. Somewhere on Habré, information about dislikes suddenly becomes valuable to the system. Somewhere in LiveJournal, tree-like comments are the most important thing there, the main collector and point of application of the information flow. But always and everywhere the system is subordinated to thesis No. 1. There is always the possibility of training the user. This means that we, Internet users, developing our erudition, intelligence, and so on on the one hand, inevitably simplify ourselves on the other.

Now I wanted to give examples, so to speak, from personal experience, to touch on the scale of Tolstoy and other great people I am reading now - but I decided that it was not worth it. Personal experience against the backdrop of statistics does not have much value. You can handle it yourself, come up with examples of how a person who did not know the Internet has a more complex, more integral mind than you. How people you know with a complex and integral mind distance themselves from this source of knowledge, avoid prolonged contact with it, feeling the desire of the Network to understand and primitize them. Great minds don't get stuck in the Web. It’s terrible for me to understand how meager and primitive my Russian language is, how one-sidedly I approach the topic, how weak my erudite mind is. This is an inevitable disease of absorption by the Internet, partial dissolution in it, and I am glad that I have not yet sunk to the pleasant, thoughtless clicking of the approval button in an endless feed of pictures and jokes, to the search for jokes and pictures to add to the feed, to contribute. Yes, there is still room for improvement. But this is false joy. To close the mind, you need something more than therapy, because ten years on the Internet are not in vain for a teenager who has become a young man - it’s already difficult for me to do without. I can only give myself as an example, against those whom I read not at the level of drafts on the Internet. For a full-fledged mind, you need something more, which Leo Tolstoy had and modern children with tablet computers in their hands do not. There is no better way to convince than to appeal to the reader’s personal experience - I’m sure you can do a good job of demonstrating to yourself that the Web makes it easier for users without me. I just told you why this happens.

Thesis No. 4
The web affects social institutions.

As follows from the theory of power, every politician wants to know where the power is, and strives either to take its side or to lure it to its own. The power now, of course, is in the Internet. Remember, I wrote about the energy of the collapse of the Soviets? I forgot to say about space expansion then - it also slowed down due to the Internet. I won’t say that this is bad - with developed information technologies, exploring space is easier and more enjoyable, and delaying a lunar colony for several decades, in general, does not mean anything. Well, we’ll build it in 2050 and not in 2000, as the science fiction writers wanted, so what. But we have the Web. The problem is different.

Politicians sense where power is. And social institutions, starting, in fact, with the government, are controlled by politicians. Therefore, all the social institutions of the world, all education, health care, voting and government - everything strives to make part of the Network part of themselves. The surveillance of mail by intelligence services, revealed by Snowden, is, in general, a small and harmless result of the interaction of politics and the web. All these stupid Russian laws restricting freedom of information are an allergic reaction, a sneeze in response to an information and energy virus that is creeping into your information flows, unpleasantly controlling people, revealing an unpleasant truth. What seems truly scary to me is the Unified State Examination testing system.

You see, children’s thinking is simplified by the Internet (see thesis No. 3). I won’t say that they are becoming dumber - it would be incorrect to say that all the parameters of a child’s multidimensional consciousness are becoming worse. In some ways, the children of the Web are becoming freer and more erudite. But simplification, the development of thinking and elementary behavioral reactions is easier for analysis - yes, this is an actual observable truth. And the Unified State Examination, of course, makes its contribution to the process. The Unified State Exam originated as a reaction of the Russian Ministry of Education to modern trends, an attempt to move away from the Soviet experience and meet modern standards of high-quality global education.

What do you think dictates the fashion for these standards? Where is the power in the world? Who or what ultimately dictates to politicians the rules of the game, how to be in trend and keep up with progress?

Yes, you are absolutly right. Alas.

And the more predictable and algorithmically simpler the children’s answers to the exam test, and the stricter the assessment algorithms, the better from the point of view of the primitive machine to which we entrust the future. And you understand now that the Unified State Exam is only an indirect consequence, a small part of a great process?

Now let's talk what to do. I outlined the essence. Probably, something was written naively or incorrectly, I hope that the grain of truth is true - after all, for many years I have reflected on the problem of the essence of the Internet and its impact on the soul of the user. It would be a lie to say that everything that happens is evil; Having focused on the problems, I have barely touched on the positive aspects of the process, and yet they are no less grandiose. In any case, it is beyond our power to do anything. Of course, you can cut the wires, throw away your phone and go live in a distant village where Wi-Fi has never been found. You might even save your soul by doing this. But by staying here, with all the people, we will not throw our Network into a landfill. Let's see how it absorbs and digests many around us. What will the children of the Network become? It is very interesting.

I would only urge personal caution. You are in the Web. She wants to eat you.

The first thing to consider is the impact of the Internet on human health.

Internet – human health.

Internet and vision.

In fact, it is not the Internet that has a bad effect on vision, but the computer, but the Internet is definitely to blame for this. Let's look at the statistics of whose vision deteriorates more.

This means that those users who communicate on the computer are more likely to worsen their vision. Such users communicate using the Internet, which means the Internet negatively affects our vision. Vision deteriorates due to greater fatigue, when a person sits at the computer for a very long time and continuously, vision weakens. Vision also deteriorates when reading from a monitor screen.

Computer and poor health.

· A person working at a computer for a long time must maintain a relatively motionless position, which negatively affects the spine and blood circulation throughout the body (blood stagnation). Blood stagnation is especially pronounced at the level of the pelvic organs and limbs. With prolonged disturbances in blood circulation, tissue nutrition is disrupted and the walls of blood vessels are damaged, which in turn leads to their irreversible expansion. This dilation of blood vessels is observed, for example, with hemorrhoids.

· Long-term use of the keyboard leads to overstrain of the joints of the hand and forearm muscles.

· Working at a computer involves processing a large amount of information and constant concentration of attention, therefore, when working at a computer for a long time, mental fatigue and impaired attention often develop.

· A person working at a computer is constantly forced to make decisions on which the effectiveness of his work depends. Sometimes it can be quite difficult to predict the consequences of one or another step (especially against the background of chronic fatigue). Therefore, long-term work at the computer is often the cause of chronic stress. Note that the need to process a large amount of heterogeneous (and mostly unnecessary information) also leads to the development of stress.

· Reports of computer addiction are increasingly appearing. Indeed, prolonged work at the computer, surfing the Internet and computer games can cause such mental disorders.

· Working at a computer often absorbs all the attention of a working person and therefore such people often neglect normal nutrition and work from hand to mouth all day. Improper nutrition leads not only to disruptions in the functioning of the digestive tract, but also to mineral and vitamin deficiencies. It is known that it is not the lack of vitamins and minerals that negatively affects the metabolic process in the body, which leads to a decrease in a person’s intellectual abilities. A decrease in work efficiency, which in turn causes the need to spend even more time at the computer. Thus, a kind of “vicious circle” is formed in which long-term work at the computer is the starting point that determines all subsequent violations.

This is directly related to the Internet, because a person will spend more time at a computer only when he is on the Internet, a person will absorb a large amount of information, communication, and he will lose track of time, and his health will deteriorate every minute.

The Internet is an addiction.

Computer addiction is no less dangerous than drug addiction, as it leads to a significant disruption of adaptation in society (inability to work, inability to start a family or simply take care of oneself).

Internet addiction is a mental disorder, an obsessive desire to connect to the Internet and a painful inability to disconnect from the Internet in time. Internet addiction is a widely discussed issue, but its status is still at an unofficial level: the disorder is not included in the official classification of diseases DSM-IV.

Researchers provide various criteria by which you can judge Internet addiction. So, Kimberly Young gives four signs:

· Obsessive desire to check e-mail.

· Constant desire for the next access to the Internet.

· Complaints from others that a person spends too much time on the Internet.

· Complaints from others that a person spends too much money on the Internet.

Ivan Goldberg provides a more detailed system of criteria. In his opinion, Internet addiction can be established if 3 of the following points are present:

· The amount of time you need to spend on the Internet to achieve satisfaction (sometimes the feeling of pleasure from communicating online borders on euphoria) increases noticeably.

· If a person does not increase the amount of time he spends on the Internet, the effect is noticeably reduced.

· The user makes attempts to give up the Internet or at least spend less time on it.

· Stopping or reducing the time spent on the Internet leads the user to poor health, which develops over a period of several days to a month and is expressed by two or more factors:

1. Emotional and motor arousal

2. Anxiety

3. Obsessive thoughts about what is happening on the Internet now

4. Fantasies and dreams about the Internet

5. Voluntary or involuntary movements of the fingers, reminiscent of typing on a keyboard.

The Internet, which has firmly entered our lives, as a fairly new, massive and large-scale phenomenon, cannot help but reshape us to suit itself. There are many widespread opinions about exactly how the Internet influences human consciousness, and they range from the idea of general dullness to the development of superpowers. What do psychologists tell us? How does the Internet really affect our minds?

It turns out that hours spent online affect, first of all, our habits and abilities to remember and search for information within ourselves. What is this impact?

Firstly, psychologists say, the Internet information that we absorb during lunch breaks, short smoke breaks, or simply out of immediate necessity, is cut up like a salad. The texts on the Internet are short, the thoughts in them are expressed succinctly: read, swallow, move on. Therefore, the expression “mnogabookaf”, which came from the network and refers to it, perfectly reflects our slightly contemptuous reluctance to read something voluminous. For what? All the same, only the essence will remain in your head, the meaning that fits in five lines - quite enough to write on Twitter.

Secondly, when reading such small texts, we often do not pay due attention to them. As a rule, it takes us no more than five seconds to read the same status on a social network, and therefore we absorb information hastily, in parallel with other things and not at a special time allotted for this, but between work, before negotiations or during lunch. As you know, when you do several things hastily, you do not do any of them well. Therefore, it is not clear how Caesar managed to do a hundred simultaneous tasks and, perhaps, it is for this reason that employers are blocking our access to social networks.

Thirdly, this very information, so short and easily accessible, becomes like a drug for us. We cannot live without access to the Internet, it seems to us as if the Stone Age has returned especially for us, and while all other people lead a civilized life, we drag out a miserable existence, cut off from social networks, psychological tests, horoscopes, business advice and other things.

Fourthly, we are replacing real communication with the Internet. It seems to us that since he gives us so much information, he is quite capable of replacing the interlocutor. That’s why we often go to the Internet, to strangers, for advice, replacing our friends, mother and boss with them. And this is unfortunately. Once upon a time, the world-famous Mark Zuckerberg “moved the party online,” but modern psychologists insist on its return to real life! Where do we spend the most time? At work! This is why the psychological climate in a team is so important: communicate with colleagues - Don't let the Internet suck you in!

At the same time - and this is fourth - the Internet creates only the illusion of communication. Changing your status on a social network, sending a tweet or comment seems like a lively activity to us, and two or three messages written to a childhood friend found on the Internet is a real conversation. But is this really so? Not at all.

Fifthly, the Internet is a kind of reserve for our brain. We know that we can always resort to it if necessary. So why bother trying to remember something? The route can be viewed on maps, and small details can be recalled in memory using Wikipedia. All our knowledge is fragmentary and fragmentary, we do not analyze information, we simply absorb it according to the requirements of the moment and nothing more. Is it good? I think no. This process occurs unconsciously for us; we don’t even concentrate on it.

What assessment can be given to these conclusions? Psychologists say that all this simply exists and, apparently, this is humanity’s adequate reaction to the development of digital technologies. On the other hand, if awareness of all this gives us rather discomfort, then we are free to break the statistics! Of course, you can’t work without the Internet, but personal communication is a completely different matter. Let's communicate more in person, share impressions, meet more often. For work advice, contact your manager, and for help, contact your colleagues. Show photos to friends pasted into a paper album and read books. Then we won’t be afraid of any dents!

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Municipal secondary education establishment

"Secondary school No. 6"

O. Murom, Vladimir region

Interim certification
2010 – 2011 academic year year

Abstract on the topic:

"The influence of the Internet on the life of modern man."

Performed:

student 8 "G" Klimova Yulia

Checked:

IT-teacher

Korchagina Elena Nikolaevna

2011

Introduction.

Every person has a computer at home, every second person has a computer connected to the Internet. Nowadays you can't do without a computer. Its influence has a detrimental effect on us, from the simplest games to electromagnetic radiation.

Today, the computer is an integral part of everyday life. People spend most of their time (including free time) on the computer, and there is no hiding from it. Computers surround us everywhere: at home, in stores, in offices. Without a computer it will be extremely difficult for a person.

Usually it all starts with a simple thing: a person logs onto the Internet for the first time, he wants to find out what he can find there, what it is all about. There is an interest in everything that happens there - the thirst for information leads to more and more sites, chats, etc. Next, a person learns that the Internet is not only a “book with pictures.” At any time there are millions of people on it, and the Internet is like a subworld - an alternative. You can participate in it and influence it. Thus, about a quarter developed addiction after six months of communicating with a computer, and half after a year. Everyone gets hooked on their own. Many people “hang out” in chat rooms and chat for hours about nothing with virtual interlocutors.

It is especially easy for teenagers to get hooked on the Internet (according to my own communication experience, the majority of “Internet travelers” suffering from this addiction range from 15-23 years old).

Do you, a person who spends hours on the Internet, ever wonder: does an at first glance harmless computer network do him any good or harm? My job is to reveal to people the whole essence of what this Internet really is.

What is the Internet?

The Internet is, first of all, a huge variety of computers and programs. Among the latter, you will find not only those who can solve your specific problems well, but also many more whose abilities you will probably find it difficult to even imagine at first. Today the Internet has about 112 million subscribers in more than 150 countries. Every month the size of the network increases by 7 - 10%. The Internet forms the core, as it were, and ensures the connection of various information networks belonging to various institutions around the world with one another.

The Internet itself has been around for quite some time. However, only quite recently - around 1990 - the Internet finally gained the critical mass of users and resources necessary for the network revolution taking place before our eyes. High-speed modems, allowing ordinary users of personal computers to enjoy all the benefits of the Internet without restrictions, appeared even later.

However, this is only part of the answer to the question “what is the Internet.” The Internet today is not only a huge number of computers, but also an incredible number of people , for whom the network is a fundamentally new way of communication, which has almost no analogues in the material world. Man is a social being, and communication with others like himself is one of his primary needs. Perhaps, until now, not a single technical invention (except for the telephone) has produced such a revolution in this activity as ancient as the world - human-to-human communication.

So, one of the important dates in the history of the Internet can be considered 1957, when a separate structure was created within the US Department of Defense (DOD) - the Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). In the 60s, DARPA's main work was devoted to developing a method for connecting computers to each other. It is very important that he headed the first research program dedicated to the global communication system, launched by DARPA on October 4, 1962, J. Licklider (see Appendix No. 1), who published the work "Galactic Network". Also, one of the important people who are directly related to the discovery of the Internet is Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researcher Lawrence Roberts (see Appendix No. 2)

There is no doubt that the explosive growth of the Internet would have been unimaginable without the World Wide Web. In 1989, at the European Particle Physics Laboratory (CERN, Switzerland, Geneva), Tim Berners-Lee developed hypertext document technology that allows users to access any information located on the Internet on computers around the world.

Why do you need the Internet?

The Internet provides services to people. There are thousands, if not millions, of all kinds of services on the Internet. The main Internet services are:

· Access to the information.

· Communication.

Access to the information.

Before the advent of the Internet, traditional sources of information were:

· mass media (both paper (newspapers, magazines) and electronic (radio, television));

· journalistic literature;

· scientific and specialized literature;

· documents of official institutions;

· materials of conferences, round tables and other forms of direct public discussion - text, audio and video;

· analytical research, marketing reports, market reviews;

· directories, catalogs, personalities, data banks, encyclopedias;

· interview;

· graphics, video and audio recordings.

The Internet suggested the following sources:

· online media;

· online literature;

· chats, forums, sites whose content is formed according to the forum principle, and other forms of indirect public discussion;

· web statistics collected and processed by specialized sites;

· online directories, catalogues, personalities, data banks, encyclopedias;

· video and audio podcasting.

Communication via the Internet.

Features of communication via the Internet:

· Anonymity. A person online can and does show greater freedom of speech and action (including insults and obscene language), since the risk of exposure and personal negative assessment by others is minimal.

· Voluntariness and desirability of contacts. The user voluntarily makes contacts or leaves them, and can also interrupt them at any time.

· Difficulty in the emotional component of communication and, at the same time, a persistent desire for emotional content in the text, which is expressed in the creation of special icons to indicate emotions or in describing emotions in words (in parentheses after the main text of the message).

· Desire for atypical, non-normative behavior. Often, users present themselves from a different side than in the conditions of the real social norm, and play out roles, scenarios, and non-normative behavior that are not realized in offline activities.

If you stop and think for a minute about how many means and methods of communication there actually are in the world today, you will have to admit that there are quite a lot of them and, most importantly, a considerable part of them are in one way or another connected with modern technical capabilities and, in particular , with the Internet. Agree that e-mail, all kinds of forums organized in the network space, numerous Internet magazines, etc., and the Internet itself, for many, have become no less important aspect of everyday life (and the communication inherent in it) than television or telephone, and sometimes they (the Internet) completely displace their “backward” brothers.

The influence of the Internet on humans.

The first thing to consider is the impact of the Internet on human health.

Internet – human health.

Internet and vision.

In fact, it is not the Internet that has a bad effect on vision, but the computer, but the Internet is definitely to blame for this. Let's look at the statistics of whose vision deteriorates more. (see Appendix No. 3)

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Computer and poor health.

· Long-term use of the keyboard leads to overstrain of the joints of the hand and forearm muscles.

· Reports of computer addiction are increasingly appearing. Indeed, prolonged work at the computer, surfing the Internet and computer games can cause such mental disorders.

The Internet is an addiction.

Researchers provide various criteria by which you can judge Internet addiction. So, Kimberly Young gives four signs:

· Obsessive desire to check e-mail.

· Constant desire for the next access to the Internet.

· Complaints from others that a person spends too much time on the Internet.

· Complaints from others that a person spends too much money on the Internet.

Ivan Goldberg provides a more detailed system of criteria. In his opinion, Internet addiction can be established if 3 of the following points are present:

· The amount of time you need to spend on the Internet to achieve satisfaction (sometimes the feeling of pleasure from communicating online borders on euphoria) increases noticeably.

· If a person does not increase the amount of time he spends on the Internet, the effect is noticeably reduced.

· The user makes attempts to give up the Internet or at least spend less time on it.

· Stopping or reducing the time spent on the Internet leads the user to poor health, which develops over a period of several days to a month and is expressed by two or more factors:

1. Emotional and motor arousal

2. Anxiety

3. Obsessive thoughts about what is happening on the Internet now

4. Fantasies and dreams about the Internet

5. Voluntary or involuntary movements of the fingers, reminiscent of typing on a keyboard.

K. Young, while researching Internet addicts, found out what they use most often. Let's look at the diagram (see Appendix No. 4)

Prevention and treatment of Internet addiction

What to do? What not to do: punish, turn off the Internet, deprive others of pleasure. All these actions are not only useless, but also harmful, as they push the teenager to run away from home.

What needs to be done: support the teenager in overcoming life’s difficulties, teach new ways to overcome crisis situations, teach the ability to regulate their emotions, build relationships with peers, and manage their time.

Who to contact: mandatory consultation with a psychotherapist (identification of possible depressive disorders) - joint psychocorrectional work of a psychotherapist and a clinical psychologist.

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Gaming addiction.

The next “computer disease” is gaming addiction, it applies to those who play online games, that is, games on the Internet.

Gaming addiction is an alleged form of psychological addiction, manifested in obsessive passion for video games, computer games, and online games.

Symptoms:

· absorption, preoccupation with the game (memories of past games, planning future bets, thoughts about how to find money for the game);

· nervousness and excitement during the game, increasing bets;

· inability to interrupt the game as long as there is cash;

· experiencing anxiety or irritation when it is necessary to limit bets or stop the game;

· using games as a means to get rid of unpleasant experiences;

· attempts to win back the day after a loss;

· lies and attempts to rationally justify one’s behavior in order to hide the true degree of one’s involvement in the game;

· using illegal methods of obtaining money (forgery, deception, theft or embezzlement) to continue the game;

· deterioration of relationships at work, in the family, with friends;

· borrowing money from others to pay off existing debts caused by gambling.

If you have 4 or more symptoms, this is already a disease...

Treatment methods:

Without giving free rein to your emotions, try to consider in detail the real appearance of psychological dependence. And then take care of yourself: look at yourself just as carefully, evaluate your own strengths and needs. Or the strengths and needs of someone you care so much about. Please note: this is not as easy as it seems. Not only do we know those around us quite poorly, we often know ourselves poorly. First, at least admit there is a problem. This is already a big victory. Then the choice is yours.

Positive functions of the Internet.

We have looked at some of the negative aspects of the Internet, but you can also find positive ones.

We can communicate with people who are thousands of kilometers away from you, we can exchange information at a distance, we can make all kinds of purchases without leaving home, etc.

Let's look at the useful features of the Internet.

Online shopping.

Nowadays, shopping through online stores is becoming very popular; you choose the product you need, put it in the online shopping cart and pay using a card, ATM or web wallet. It is very comfortable.

Internet commerce is developing very actively. First of all, you buy something that can be used to work with a computer or any other office equipment: printer cartridges, paper in packs, computer literature, some types of applied entertainment software. However, it is becoming increasingly easier to purchase other types of goods on the Internet: clothing, groceries, household supplies, stationery, technical

Buying online is convenient. But there is a downside to this service. Buyer forums are full of complaints about an imperfect delivery system, inflated prices, complex multi-step ordering systems, a small range, and long waits for delivery. And, most importantly, the likelihood of fraud (that is, that the goods will not be delivered).

Internet money.

Now at this time it has become popular to have an online wallet. This is a kind of wallet, but we cannot see or touch it because... it is in an interactive space. It is visual, but the money it contains is a real means of payment. With this money we can pay for other goods from online stores. This wallet can be registered on various resources. The registration scheme is simple - enter your data. Resources that provide us with the opportunity to have such a wallet are listed in this list:

· www.webmoney.ru

· www.money.yandex.ru

· www.w.qiwi.ru

Conclusion.

The Internet has both positive and negative features.

Positive features of the influence of the Internet on humans

Earn money online, job search.

Possibility of payment and ordering many services via the Internet.

Show up, show yourself to the world.

Chat with people, find old friends, classmates.

On the Internet you can always get the latest news on any topic.

And these are just the main advantages. The needs and requests of Internet users are very different. Some want to get new software. Others are looking for certain documents they need for their professional activities. Still others connect online to receive email. The Internet helps everyone.

Negative features of the influence of the Internet on humans

On the Internet there are:

Suicide clubs.

Drug clubs.

Clubs that train novice terrorists.

And much, much more... In such clubs you can order your own death, learn how to select and inject drugs correctly. So what? After all, everything is possible here and nothing will happen to you for it.

If vision and hearing can be damaged by a keyboard, mouse or monitor, then the psyche is primarily affected by more, so to speak, virtual things - games and the Internet. This is something that “addicts”, something from which it is impossible to tear yourself away, something without which many can no longer imagine their lives - this is a manic addiction to the Internet or to games.

It is no secret that it is harmful to breathe in cities, modern food is generally harmful, going to bed late and getting up early (without sleep) is also harmful. Studying statistics at a university is also harmful (for health), the conclusion is: “Life is harmful, and then why do these studies about the harmfulness of the Internet”?

You need to know when to stop everything. There is always a middle ground.

A person always has a choice. And in most cases, he himself decides what is good for him, what will affect him, what he wants to get from it...

A computer can become a friend or a sworn enemy, it can help in trouble, or it can add a bunch of problems, it can help you find like-minded people, or it can lead to loneliness.

The choice is yours!

Appendix No. 1

J. Licklider

http://pda.computerra.ru/?action=article&id=574154

Appendix No. 2

Lawrence Roberts

http://www.e-commerce.psati.ru/content/other/index.php?ID=154

Appendix No. 3

Appendix No. 4

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