Final practice

Practical Online Shopping

Have you ever bought something through the online shopping site? After people invented the internet and developed it, nowadays, people who live all over the world go to the online shopping sites to find something they want. “The more than 184,000 consumers who paid money to the companies about which they were complaining paid a median amount of $214” (Robertson, 2008, para.2). It is really convenient because people do not have to go out and spend time to find what they want. By sitting in their home, people can find the information or products in a few minutes. However, online shopping has some dangers because it is easy to access to other people’s personal information easily. To buy products, people should put their personal information, such as address, social security number, and credit card number, on the web site. Sometimes, their information, even their money from a credit card number are stolen by a hacker. That is, online shopping has advantages and disadvantages. Therefore, people should use online shopping carefully.

Although online shopping has several dangers, people should use online shopping because of three advantages of online shopping, that online shopping makes it easy to find what they want at a cheaper price than offline, that people cannot develop the new technology unless people use their invention, and that people can save time by shopping in the internet.

First of all, online shopping makes it easier to find the product than offline shopping. Online shopping offers the ways to find something they want readily (Ball, 2008). Moreover, people can find the products they want by sitting in their room, even though the products are in different countries they have never been to. For example, when a Korean guy is finding Nike shoes, if he goes out to yhr shopping mall near his house, it would be really hard to find exactly what he wants at a cheap price because he cannot find all prices and kinds of shoes he wants. However, he can find a lot of kinds of Nike shoes all over the world among diverse prices, even in Japan, and America, if he goes shopping online. Hence, online shopping is a useful way to buy products.

Second, people cannot develop the new technology unless people use new technology, because of its dangers. Although online shopping has some dangerous side such as credit card numbers being stolen, and exposure of personal information, online shopping is the one of best inventions people have created (Five tips for safe online shopping, 2008). For example, if people do not use the online shopping because of fears, and have their personal information stolen by internet hackers, other scientists and technologists will not try to find other technologies to block the hackers with.? They do not have to find new technologies, because people are already safe. Nobody willingly submits to the dangers, and people do not have development. Therefore, people should try to use online shopping while trying to use new technologies to remove the dangers rather than avoiding the dangers.

Finally, people should use online shopping because it is a timesaver. It is because people do not have to spend much time to find products they want to buy. Just at one time, people can get all information about what they want. For instance, when Americans who live in Carbondale want to buy some clothes, they have to go to shopping malls that are far from Carbondale, like Saint Louis. If they can find clothes and order the clothes by shipping service, they do not have to go to places that is far and spend their time. As a result, they can save time by online shopping.

In conclusion, online shopping has disadvantages and dangers. “Credit-card companies lose about $1 billion a year to credit card fraud, while merchants lose about $10 billion annually, according to CardWeb” (Mulrean, 2008, para.8). In spite of the dangers, people should use online shopping because of convenience, possibility as a new technology, and saving time. Consequently, online shopping should be used.

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Reference

Ball. G. (2008). Is using a credit-card for online purchases safe? Education Refined. Retrieved April 15, 2008 from http:// www.bsu.edu/security/article/0,138486674-5031-17009,00.html.

Five tips for safe online shopping. (2008). Epinions.com. Retrieved October 20, 2008 from http://www.epinion.com/finc-review-2A3E-12E6A23-39FooEoA-proda.

Mulrean. J. (2008). Protect Yourself. MSN Money. Retrieved March 12, 2008 from http://monetcentral.msn.com/content/savingganddebt/Fiddealsonline/P36487.asp.

Robertson. C. (2006). Stay safe while shopping online. Majon international. Retrieved January 3, 2006 from http://www.majon.com/articles shopping__General/shopping_\online_126.htm.