Monday, November 29, 2010 @ 12:40 AM
Question 8: What are the impacts of globalization on the Net?
Globalization, a term that been discussed for years. Globalization can be defined as “the intensification of economic, political, social and cultural relations across borders.” Countries all around the world, wishes to have connection with each other. Distances will not be a problem for us anymore. Countries linked with each other and shares ideas with each other. Evidence of globalization is seen in our daily lives. We are being influenced by the on rush of economic and ecological forces that demand integration and uniformity and that mesmerize the world with fast music, fast computers and fast food with MTV, Macintosh and McDonald’s, pressing nations into one commercially homogeneous global network: one Mc world tied together by technology, ecology, communication, and commerce.
Technology is perhaps the most visible aspect of globalization and in many ways its driving force. Communication technology has revolutionized our information systems. Globalization tends to be most perceptible and observable in almost every facet of life mainly due to the emergence of internet technology. The internet technology is globally integrating and amalgamating the people of the world. The advent of the Internet in its unquantifiable shape and form has over the past decade provided a common platform upon which countries from all corners of the Earth are able to communicate and share information. Despite of the widespread usage and availability of new technology, the issue been brought to the forefront of the debate between advocates on both sides of the globalization aisle. (Socyberty.com,2010)
The globalization on the net makes our life easier. No matter in social or business. The globalization on the internet linked people all around the world. This bonds our relationships together. We get closer to each other although the actual distance is far. Everyone become closer and shares whatever information on the internet. With globalization, we can able to know more news around the world, learn from each other. People can jump out of the box, looking for the information that others than what we have in our own countries. The internet globalization can widen one’s eyesight, what we have in our world is not enough for us; we have to explore for much knowledge through the internet.
In social way, we can connect with people all around the world, knowing each other. Internet globalization makes our life more interesting. We can communicate with friends from different countries. We are sharing ideas, learning others’ cultures. We may not know each other’s in real life, but globalization in the internet linked us and us able to know about others. There are many social networking sites (SNS) available on the internet and it gathers the users from different places in the world, and SNS serves as a platform for us to communicate and exchange information. This makes our social circle become bigger, not only includes the friends around us, but globally. We can know what happen in others countries in a faster and easier way.
In business, the globalization of the internet provides a big opportunity in promoting our business to others country. People not only can promote his business in local, but also globally through internet, to let other know about the products. The globalization in the internet provides chances for us to have customers in others countries. Today there are so many people promote their products through online rather than open a shop and this makes online shopping become a trend. The globalization on the internet enables the business reached international stage.
In a nutshell, the globalization on the net makes people around the world become closer. We are not only living in our own country, know about everything happen in our own surrounding only, but we can also jump out of box, we know everything happen in every corner of the world.
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