Advantages of Internet

Following are the main advantages of Internet:

• Collection of information
• Free and Cheap
• E-Commerce
• Communication
• Entertainment and Games
• Research
• News
• Availability

Collection of Information:
One feature of internet is the collection of web sites, which contain information in the form of text and pictures. These websites provide a wide range of information on every topic of the world. When information is added to a website, it is immediately available for browsing by millions of Internet users. The World Wide Web is an ideal medium of information distribution because it takes away the time associated with publishing content and actually making it available to users.

Free and Cheap:
The information available on the Internet is usually free or costs very little. We can download different software like application programs, anti virus, different utility software free of cost. Content published on the World Wide Web is immediately available to a global audience of users, which makes it a very effective medium to publish information.

E-Commerce:
Internet has opened new doors for businesses, which is widely termed as E-Commerce or Electronic Commerce. Through Electronic Commerce business can introduce themselves to larger audience of the world through web sites and advertising. We can also do online trading of different commodities or shares through internet.

Communication:
Internet has revolutionized the way we communicate. It has been become very cheap and easy to communicate through it, Internet offers different facilities like E-mail, Video conferencing, Chatting etc for communication.

Entertainment and Games:
Internet has opened new arena for entertainment e.g. we can now see online movies, enjoy music, play games with different people in any part of the world. It covers different events, festivals and shows all over the world that we can enjoy simple on our computer scree.

Research:
Internet has enhanced the efforts that have been put in the research by allowing people to share their research with other people in different parts of the world.

News:
On Internet there are different news groups and websites from where we can get the latest news about the events happening in the world.

Availability:
The information on the internet is available 24 hours a day.