Imagine you’re just reading a book. You decided that you finished reading and looked for your phone in your room. You find it and just watch videos. You check the time and see it’s 4:47 PM. You check the time again, 6:02 PM. Time flies so fast with technology. 

  Technology has made our lives both easier and harder. Sure, technology offers information, accelerated education, entertainment, etc, but they still can be addicting and may even harm our communication skills. They also hurt your eyesight and you may have difficulty with tasks. 

  People are now producing Artificial Intelligence AI which has beneficial and unbeneficial things about it. AI can be beneficial at work such as not having breaks, efficient service, and 24/7 working with no interruptions. The negative thing is that people go unemployed because of these AI, lack creativity, are expensive, and can have a lot of faults.

The overall internet is quite beneficial, offering online shopping, easily accessible information, global connectivity, donation, working from home, selling products, 24/7 news and updates, navigating locations, and you can even make money. But there are also unfortunate things such as scamming, malicious malware, etc. 

  So, let’s focus on the positive side for now. Apps like Duolingo, Khan Academy, and IXL 

have been useful to young learners who desire to learn new languages or a certain topic or were forced to do it BUT it still helps students learn things. Selling online can be a huge benefit for the seller and the buyer. The seller gets money and the buyer gets the product they have purchased. To be honest, there are lots of perks for being online and could entirely change your life.

For the negative side, there are scam apps that can take your credit card information, location, identity, and they can even leak your IP address. There are several risks of being online such as scam, viruses, hackers, and IP grabbers. 

  Although there are ups and downs, a poll made in February 2021, about 46% spend 5-6 hours a day and 5% less than 1 hour. A total of 2,208 correspondents, all from the USA, had voted. 

During research, it has been found that being online can have the risk of having depression and mental health issues. Because of cyberbullying, suicide rates have increased and also found that victims of cyberbullying to look negatively at theirselves. 

  What is cyberbullying? Cyberbullying is a form of bullying or harassing someone through the internet and it has been increasingly common ever since the COVID-19 pandemic happened. Victims are bullied because of their identity, gender, sexuality, passions, height, nationality, skills, age, etc.