Internet was found by United States of America in 1960s. The first usage was to communicate easily between military camps (Walt, 2009 para.1). In the mid of 1990s, companies such as AOL, Prodigy, CompuServe had an opportunity for the open sources of internet to serve people a new world and after that the name of internet replaced by World Wide Web. A new world had improved quickly because of the internet providers. In today's world, there is a wide usage of the internet. After the computers have improved by engineers and reducing their costs created an opportunity to everyone buy their personal computers. This improved brought us to enter WWW world and make our life easier in many areas (Walt, 2009 para.18-20-21). Although internet make our life easier, there are also harmful effects. Teenagers who integrate internet in their life have advantages and disadvantages, it is depend on their usage.
Firstly, internet is a wide area network, because of this, it can keep all information. This information are beneficial for the teenagers who are going to school. According to Oak (2008), efficent and organized storage of information has been served by the internet well. The best information sources of the internet are search engines. Just writing a simple query, you can find thousands of search results. Moreover, thanks to the system of search engines, most revelant results are given to you on priority. All information is one click away. Also the internet provide to access online libraries. In Priddy (2007)'s opinion, online libraries good for teenagers because they conveniance and user friendly. Besides, they have good features such as highlight feature, citation feature, bibliography feature, bookshelf feature,...
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