On-line gaming

Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft are the three major online gaming names which everyone has heard of. These systems have greatly influenced the way in which we use the internet and thus its growth, by allowing gamers to challenge someone around the world to a game which communicating between themselves as they do so.

A lot of the games you play now are either on Xbox live, which has a grand total of 20 million users, or the PlayStation network which has 17 million users. These networks offer co-operative play where you can group up with a load of friends or a group of people you have never met before, and work towards a common cause.

This technology has had a massive impact on the social growth of the internet because it has allowed people to make friends who share the same hobby as you – online gaming. However, it can be a verbally abusive thing to be involved in because of the anonymous player who like to use their screen name as a shield.

E-mail

Email has become the main communication method, which everyone now is expected to use. Since it was developed in 1973 is has developed again a massive user following and has greatly reduced the need of paper letters in everyday life. The basic function of it is that it allows the customers who have signed up to allow people to send messages anywhere in the world at either very little or no cost.

As it has developed from only sending text based messages to sending messages containing attached files and messages which have been formatted to make them look more attractive, they have changed the internet with their pure potential. We are able to share articles and passages with our friends, forward important email with your work colleagues or even write to you pen friend in a foreign country without using the more traditional pen and paper.