[ILUG-Cochin.org] ethics of internet usage

[Jos Collin]

Exactly. Spams - I don't think that it is not sent by anyone. But it
is coming when we register in some of the websites for the purpose of
"How to make money", "Online jobs", "Trip planner" etc. I'm receiving
almost 1000 spam emails since I book a tour online.

>They spend the whole time playing with orkut. The >young generation is not aware of the real >potential of internet.
They don't recognize the fact that they can't be social by sitting in
front of a computer. They will forget the easiest and ordinary ways of
communicating with others.

> They use it for sending spam mails and in orkut.
Social Engineering is a part of every Social Networking websites. The
best solution is take them out of your daily life. You will find a lot
of free time. Even if they pay me to use it, I won't use it.

On 14/05/2009, Anoop Viswanath <anoopviswanath at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear friends,
>
> I'm receiving several mails telling "Ericcson is distributing free laptop"
> or "Microsoft is testing your fortune" or "Yahoo is giving.........." etc.
> The mail tells the receiver to forward to max. no: of people and make a cc
> to anna at ericcson.com. I remember Salimkumar's dialogue in a malayalam film
> when seeing this. I usually send a mail to everyone in the receivers list
> with a subject "Salimkumar is distributing free biriyani", explaining
> nothing is free in this world. But what use...I am still recieving this type
> of mails. These mails are circulating since 1999, when I started using
> internet.
> I know several students who gets 1 hour in a week for surfing internet. They
> spend the whole time playing with orkut. The young generation is not aware
> of the real potential of internet. They use it for sending spam mails and in
> orkut. Ofcourse, elder people are doing this, but it is of no use to educate
> those people. A huge share of the bandwidth available is spoiled by this
> type of thousands of useless mails. Forwarded mails constitute 90% of this.
> So it is essential to make awareness of ethical practices of internet usage,
> atleast in young generation.
>
> So when we talk about ethics of software, this can also be told
>
> Regards
>
> Anoop Viswanath
>


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