TED AFYON COLLEGE / 12-D
Surviving The Internet
Kaya İNKAYA
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The Internet itself is nothing but a field full of mines if you don ’ t know how to use it properly , which seems to be hard for certain people . The need to learn how to use it is not something you can ignore , for it is now dominating the whole world . If you learn how to use it the right way like the rest of the world does , it may provide a great deal of information and many advantages like finding your way in a city that you are unfamiliar with or maybe uploading a video of yourself falling down the stairs , and then becoming famous . Yes , it ’ s that easy to become famous . But when used the wrong way , it may give you headaches or just change your search engine to something you have never heard of ! The Internet is just like a knife . If you give it to a chef , he will cook you a delicious meal , but if you give it to a child , he will probably cut himself or someone else . So , when using the Internet , you have to be careful for the vast quantity of the trouble that you might end up with .
When the biggest trouble on the Internet is considered , the first thing that comes to mind is , of course , the viruses . The things that a virus can do to your personal computer are bewildering , from just slowing it down to overheating its CPu so much that it lights up on fire . You have to be wide awake when surfing the net or you might end up with such issues .
Maybe what is only lost will not be your computer . Stealing someone ’ s personal data is quite easy these days . The only thing that you have to do to get your personal data stolen is to click something that looks like this :
Who can resist clicking this giant charming button ? The answer is clear : those who are not willing to hand someone their credit card number or some other personal data . It ’ s a fact that when you click on something that looks like this one here , you won ’ t receive the movie that you ’ re trying to download but a good deal of distress and annoyance .
All in all , no one is a 100 % safe when using the Internet , but at least we can protect most of our personal data from the baleful people by learning the right way of using the Internet .