Places and forms of power : How can we consider internet and new technologies ?

Anglais : PLACES AND FORMS OF POWER

Power is ability to influence the behavior of people. In order to live together, members of a community accept rules and laws. This helps to create social cohesion but can also lead to conflicts and tensions.

How can we consider internet and new technologies ?

To answer this question, firts i’ll talk about the boons. First of all about leisure, at home sport is avaible with diferent apps, you can improve your perfomance. Healt with apps that are counting your steps for example. You can read books and you don’t need space to stock them. You can travel without moving and if you want you can look easily and fast. Then about online orders, is the exchange of goods, services and information via computer networks, including the internet.

The term e-commerce is also used. We can order for examples : food, clothes, various electronic items, everything is at reach with a simple connection.

In the second part, i’ll show the burden for many this new technology doesn’t respond to all wishes. Indeed, the dangers are numerous and it is not worth, bearning them for example with the sexting : some people are showing nude photos of them selves and these photos are used by people (for a divorce, to get some money, for revenge after a broken relationship). Then about addiction : Before people had to go to casinos or to tabacco dealers to play, now they just have to be connect to gamble nobody can stop them. Teenagers are often addicted to online game like : Clash of clan. People lose their marks and forgets their surroundings.

In conclusion, the Internet has the advantage of making our lives easier and more convenient, but there are also disadvantages such as the dangers that the Internet represents, the Internet can make us dependent.

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