SEC - S9W5: The Internet, my best ally

Hi everyone, I am happy to have a chance for this challenge again, it has been at season 9 week 5. I have just been active again on this platform and discovered many contests have been rolling on.

Today, I would like to join this contest and will tell you about what is the benefit I have gotten from the internet era, indeed it has many. It changed my lifestyle as well!!

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At the beginning of 1996, I heard about the computer and it was something really complicated since I lived in the remote countryside, even though we hadn't got electricity at that moment. You can imagine how difficult for me to get access to those things.

What activities do you do connected to the internet?, hmm to write about this I would like to tell you my story about the computer first just to give you a full understanding of my way to discovering the internet.

It looks like the same as the computer I used the first time, Image Source

I touched the first computer keyboard in 1997, I was in the 3rd grade of Senior High School in the small town of Panton Labu, North Aceh. The next year I had been in Banda Aceh to continue my study. @radjasalman and I started to know about the internet thing, we learn autodidact mostly using the renting serving computer on an hourly basis. It was a bit expensive for us to pay for the internet connection with very limited speed.

From that time on, I made an e-mail address and start to use yahoo messenger, it was the most incredible thing we could do on the internet thing, we don't know much at the time.

A few years later, perhaps at the beginning of 2000, I use the internet to communicate with my family for it was the only way to communicate effectively. I clearly remember these things because I was away from my hometown and had no other way to communicate because we don't have phones and I was mobile from one to another town in Indonesia.

And now, I could not do my work if there is no internet connection at home or in my office since I need a secure line to send and receive e-mails, documents, and work things, besides, my personal needs for daily communication. Including financial transactions, private business meetings, Schooling my kids, and even purchasing things go through an internet connection.

Since what age did you start using the internet? How much do you use a day?. As I have described above, I knew the net things in 1998 and I was 19 years old when the first time involved in the internet thing, from that time on, I could not be a part of it, I need the internet in almost all aspect of my daily life, it is not only a lifestyle, but for professional and personal use as well.

As a professional, normally I use the internet about 8-10 hours a day, but my mobile phone is 24 hours connected to the Internet because I am using WhatsApp for official main communication, and Skype for my official International communication, so then checking e-mail and other stuff as well 24 seven. If you ask me, can you live without the Internet? I can say it is difficult to maintain a stable life without the Internet.

Do you have internet in your home?, How much does the service cost? (tell us the price in local currency and Steem), I can say yes I have an internet connection at home but it is only a specific mobile phone that is dedicated to the Internet connection, with several settings to restrict the access to my kids, so I could manage to control the use of it properly. As well as managing the internet monthly cost, using the dedicated mobile phone as the internet modem is much more comfortable for me because the speed is good enough, the installation is cost-free, and it only cost me about IDR 134,000,- to get 55 GB internet access (it is about 44-45 steem/month). This internet cost is included for education and entertainment use but not included for my professional use, because I have my own internet allocation budget from the office which was enough to connect to my laptop for working purposes.

Why do you think the internet can be harmful?, as it is a global data network, it is connected all over the globe and can be used at any time anywhere as long as the network is available. It is the basic concern of all internet users as well. It is a bit dilemma on the internet. It indeed has a lot of benefits but it also could harm our life as well. What I can tell you perhaps you have experienced this as well. We know that since the internet has been in all aspects of our life it is easy for personal and private data to be exposed to the unauthorized party. And I know pretty sure that when we use the internet without caution it is the same as we give our life to others. Anyone who knows to do such things could possibly compromise our financial transactions and private life and even it can be a serious threat such as taking control of the credit card, confidential information of the company, and destroying the company's financial resources as well.

Not only is the economic aspect but also the culture and family life, for example, the kid could access adult content, and watch the violence video, and many more. These kinda things must be put as a critical concern when we use the internet. Another example such as the steemit account, we need to be very careful to store the access key somewhere offline to prepare something we don't expect.

What benefits has the internet brought to your life?, I have got many benefits from the internet so far, the most wonderful aspect that I get from the benefit of the internet is global EDUCATION through tremendous information from all over the world. I remember when I was in Junior High School and Senior High School in the remote countryside, It was extremely difficult to find information about a specific topic, I have to go through all the books in the library and mostly ended up with nothing.

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Specifically, the first benefit from the Internet is having a side job and earning things from the Internet, I use the Internet to access the platform that provides features to earn while contributing on the platform such as promoting and selling things globally, blogging, making video content and many more such as "The Steemit platform".

The second big benefit I got from the internet is unlimited access to communicate internationally any time anywhere. Getting friends and connections all over the globe is something I could not deny that gives me a lot of benefits as well

The third great benefit is mostly I got job opportunities from the net, the last job I work with an International company also I got the information from the website. I change my life experience as well and it also opens my network wider.

Well then, as I have described above perhaps you have also experienced as well. As long as we use the Internet wisely, we can get a lot of benefits, but if we use it without caution of course it could harm us as well.

I would like to hear about the Internet experience from @heriadi, @radjasalman, @sofyan88, @anroja, and other friends as well. What do you think guys?

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Best Regards

El-Nailul