Some Important Information I Have Gatherred About the Internet

In 2002, report shows that there is an increased daily usage of internet access as a news source. In the latest poll made by Gallup, every media from local TV news, local newspapers and network magazines shows a decrease in its daily usage except the internet. According to Gallup, the percentage of American getting their news daily on the internet has increased from 3% in 1995 to 7% in 1998, 8% in 1999, 15% in 2002 and now 20% in 2004. This significant trend can be associated with the availability of internet virtually in every house in America.

The increase of internet usage is also become very noticeable in other parts of the globe. Asia on one hand, has embraced the idea of the Internet as the source of news in spite of the availability of local TV and local newspaper. Asia-Pacific Online study shows that by the end of 2003, Internet use in country like China will have nearly doubled to 114 million people. And by 2005, 250 million Chinese are expected to access the Internet. In South Korea, nearly 59 percent of the population uses the Internet by the end of 2003. In India with a population of over one billion people and with the increase of 120,000 cellular users a month that has passed to 3 million in June of 2003, indicates a vast potential in Internet usage.

Europe on the other hand, has been using the Internet as source for daily news. Statistics shows that member countries of the European Union are using the service of the Internet to acquire news and information. On the estimated population of 45.6 million people, almost 50 percent uses the in the Internet. And the popularity of it grows 121.2 percent from 2000-2004. The rest of Europe also shows significant growth. In the last four years, Internet users grow 150.2 percent.

Africa is also showing a considerable development in Internet use. They have come to realize the importance of global connectivity that the Internet offers. The Internet market in this region doubled from 2.5 million users to about 5 million in the year 2000, which shows a high level of growth.

The cause of this rapid growth in the use of the Internet throughout the world can be rooted to the services the Internet can give. Internet as a source of news has become very popular throughout the world. But the next question is: “what is the difference between local TV or newspaper and the internet?” We can see the answer in the presence of the sites like the BBC and the CNN which offers up to date news. As noticed, every news in the world can be read in these sited as it happens. Sites like these are continuously updated up to the second to give the users the latest events around the world.

Newspapers or local news cannot do this. For the reason that newspapers are printed daily and local news have specific time of broadcast, it cannot catch up with the information the Internet can give.

The evolution and the use of the Internet have been countless for the past two decades. It has revolutionized the business world. The transfer of information is faster than ever. The availability of every single detail of information about everything can be handed over wherever and whenever it is needed.

With its easy access to global information, the growing number of Internet user increases during the past years. The information superhighway, is it is known in other term, has been very effective and very useful medium in sharing information and thus, the internet is as much a collection of communities as a collection of technologies and its success is largely attributable to both satisfying basic community needs as well as utilizing the community in an effective way to push the infrastructure forward.

By the next few years and if the trend continues to go up, we can expect the internet would become the most frequent visit that can beat the local TV and newspaper in terms of news source and other relevant information.