Thursday 7 June 2018

How secured are you online?

The advent of the World Wide Web (www) popularly referred to as the internet has made the world a global village. With the internet in place, breaking news and information from any part of the world reach our door step within a twinkle of an eye. The internet has also changed the face of how we do business in the world today. Unlike in the past where a brick and mortar structure and location is required to get a business up and running, now with a computer and internet connection an online business can be established.Online businesses such as blogging affiliate marketing, online shopping mall, selling informational product, search engine optimization, facebook cash e.t.c have come to stay. A lot of success stories have been recorded of those who have made it online. For the fact that these online businesses can be ran from the comfort of our homes makes the whole idea of internet business a very interesting one to explore. Many individual have admitted making million working from home. Even many offline businesses are now creating an online presence because it is now known that the internet provides the opportunity to meet and interact with a wider audience keeping businesses open 24/7 365 days. Offline businesses can register an online presence through a website/weblog launch, social media pages e.t.c.
After all said and done about the immense benefit the internet offers to the world; is the internet really safe in all its ramification? Well, the answer is NO!
NO, because the menace of insecurity online has been a very big task for the world to tackle. Most especially the dangers of coming in contact with explicit contents by children who visit the web. There had been cases of cyber bullying, chat rooms have become dangerous zones as there is no way of  knowing if you are actually talking to a male or female and even no age barriers. Precautions must be taken by all an sundry to keep the internet innocent.
As the world embarks on keeping the internet innocent campaign, cyber crime popularly known as internet scam has been on the increase. Many have fallen victims to these scammers and defrauded of their hard earn money. To such people of had fallen prey, the internet is an highly unsafe zone.




1 comment:

  1. Well said. If something is not done about that, the internet a great thing will become a bad thing.

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