by C.V.Rajan

Created on: November 29, 2008   Last Updated: April 21, 2010

The internet has become so much part and parcel of our daily lives that most of us can afford to skip a meal today, but can't afford to skip browsing the internet for an hour!

Unless the pros of internet in today's society are so overwhelmingly more, it is obvious that internet would not have seen such a phenomenal development in the last decade.

== The following are the unassailable pros of Internet ==

(1) We all need information, news, views, advice, guidance, opinions, fun, entertainment, enlightenment, gossip, facts, fiction, rumor, thrill, religion, spirituality, sex, voyeurism, communication, pictures, video, audio, reality, imagination, truth, falsehood and what not in every day life. Every single element in this long list is available in abundance through the internet virtually at our finger tips at the click of a mouse.

(2) Internet is now a global library, a global cinema hall, a global newspaper, a global TV, a global shop, a global theater, a global marketplace and a global society without barriers or boundaries between countries, continents, religions, languages and ethnicity.

(3) The greatest use of Internet has been in personal communication through e-mail, chat and social networking. No person is too alien. No country is too distant. No event is too private.

(4) For such of those people who do not particularly enjoy going out, visiting shopping malls, standing in queues or in rubbing shoulders amidst milling crowds, the following are some of the greatest pros in using internet:

* ability to book tickets for Railways, Airways and Cinema Halls sitting in the comforts of the home

* ability to do most of my banking transactions, trading in shares, managing personal finance and investments, payments of taxes, submission of Income Tax returns - virtually every activity through on-line transactions.

* Ability to buy many things - right from hand kerchiefs to houses and automobiles through on-line shopping and auctioning.

* Ability to sell off many things that you don't want - like for example the unwanted gifts that you received during Christmas, through on-line selling.

* Possibility of running your own on-line trading and merchandising businesses through Internet

* Possibility of utilizing your skills to productive use, like web-content writing, freelance writing, logo creation, on-line tutoring, creating pictures on T-shirts, coffee mugs etc and try selling them to earn some money in this way.

 and so on.

The world and the entire creation consists

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