Nowadays, the Internet has become an indispensable part of our life. In addition to chat and entertainment, it also provides a good platform for learning. But most websites require real-name systems, which threatens our privacy. First, the user’s location can be achieved by IP address, MAC address and hostname. Think about this consequence. If all the hackers know your address, you will become a good target. Second, learning websites often need to provide mailboxes for communication, but no one wants the world to know your account. Spam is a serious problem on the Internet, and it is also true for individuals. If you receive hundreds of emails that are irrelevant to you every day, this is definitely not a pleasant thing. Third, many times, you will not know who is behind the account you are communicating with. The anonymity mechanism on the network is sometimes a double-edged sword. You can enjoy the power of anonymity, but you also need to take certain risks, especially for the student’s website, to bring convenience to some people who are not good.
Also, in the face of some learning website, the vast majority of information can not be treated well, the information published on the internet, they often do not carefully discern these work. They do not have time to verify the authenticity. And more often because it is released by people who identification as teachers or students, so people will totally believe, and even told others. The untrue information can mislead people, and the resulting negative effects are imaginable. For example, one of my friend like google the answers on the internet, whatever he know or do not know. And he will totally believe the answers he found, even he had a different thought. And many time I told him to trust himself and even proving with teacher his original answer was right, the thing he googles are not right, he still wrote the answer he found. And in the end, he got a bad grade. ( Zhukova, 2018)
because of the trust of the internet, and even more serious cases, there may have network dependence. Once they leave the internet, they feel that they have lost their value. They dare not face the real-life and dare not face reality. People who are suffering from network dependence often like to show on the Internet continuously or even show their life or work in a comprehensive and careful manner. It seems that their only comfortable that do the work or take the class online, they will feel uneasy when they face the real person, talk their work face by face. (Brown,2018)
The learning website starts at good reason and purpose, but may also lead to a bad outcome. But it is only a small part of the consequence of learning website, I still believe it is will become a good helper for study.
References:
Zhukova, A. (2018, October 31). 7 Negative Effect of Social Media on people and users.
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Brown, J. (2018, January 05). Is social media bad for you? Retrieved from:http://
www.bbc.com/future/story/20180104-is-social-media-bad-for-you-the-evidence-
and-the-unknowns