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 on Mar 18, 2008

Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, my name is Nguyen Long Quoc, and today I¶d like to
talk to you about three disadvantages of the Internet.

The first disadvantage when using the Internet is that your personal information is not safe,
especially important one. In fact, as you surf the web, read emails, download softwares or
even chat with your friends, a Trojan, known as a hidden program, can be sent to your
computer without your knowing. It will steal and transfer all the information you save to the
sender. This person, after that, may make use of or give it to somebody else. For example, if
you use Internet to shop online, your credit card number can be stolen, and then the money in
your bank account will probably be used up. Or if you send some confidential material to your
business partners, your opponents may try to steal it and harm your company.

Pornography is the second disadvantage of the Internet. This is a very serious issue, especially
when it comes to children. Nowadays there are thousands of pornographic sites on the Internet
that can be easily found that are very harmful to the kids, and may incite them to act out
sexually against other ones. According to the study of researcher Dr. Jennings Bryant about
600 American males and females of junior high school age and above, 31 percent of the males
and 18 percent of the females admitted actually doing some of the things they have seen in the
pornography. Moreover, a recent study has shown that frequent exposure to pornography may
cause the children to involve in sexual illness, sexual addiction and unplanned pregnancies,
which have bad influences on the children¶s mental life.

The last con is virus threat. What is a virus? A virus is nothing but a program which disrupts
the normal functioning of your computer systems. Computers attached to internet are more
prone to virus attacks and they can end up into slowing down your computer¶s speed,
destroying data and crashing your whole hard disk. Maybe most of us here have at least once
suffered from viruses no matter how hard we have tried to prevent them from infecting the
computers by using some anti-virus programs. So we should know clearly that they cause bad
damages , but are inevitable.

In conclusion, the Internet can have some bad effects like unsafe personal information,
pornography¶s influences on children¶s mental life, and virus threat. However, it doesn¶t mean
that you shouldn¶t use the internet any more. It¶s hard to imagine our life without the Internet.
What you should do is just need to be more careful every time when you use the Internet.