This document compares newspapers and the internet. Newspapers provide information, news, and advertisements but can be a waste of time and resources. The internet allows vast access to information, communication, entertainment, e-commerce, and communities, but also poses risks like spam, theft, pornography, and viruses. Both have advantages and disadvantages, so as users it is important to understand the importance and proper use of both.

1. SUBJECT
BASIC ENGLISH
TITLE : NEWSPAPER VS INTERNET
LECTURER
MISS KAVIMALATHI
NAME
THINESH S/O PERGAS
IDENTIFICATION CARD NO
941104-10-5857
MATRIX NO
DBS941104105857
BATCH 4.1

2. NEWSPAPER
There are many advantages and disadvantages of reading the newspaper. Newspapers are
one of the traditional mediums used by businesses, both big and small alike. People read
newspaper to find out information, news, and what going on around there world. However,
there are many pro and con about reading the newspaper.
The advantages of reading the newspaper are good in many ways. For instance, you can
increase you neologies by reading the newspaper. You can also find information around
world. In addition, many people buy newspaper just to read the advertisement from the
restaurants, movies, subway and discount stores. However, reading the newspaper has
become a habit for most families. It has something for everyone. For example, you can reach
certain segments of your market by placing your advertisement in different sections of the
paper such as sports, crosswords, news, comics, classifieds, etc.
The disadvantages of reading the newspaper show that it is wasting of time by reading the
nonsense article. In addition, people who making the newspaper they wasting the papers
company and killing more trees. Moreover, you have no assurance that every person who
receives the newspaper will read your advertisement. They may not read the section you
advertised in, or they may simply have skipped the page because it contained little or nothing
else of interest and which is wasting of papers.
Different people have different opinion of reading the newspaper. Some people would read
the newspaper, because they like, and they would find some interesting articles to read or
something else. Other people would not read, maybe they don’t know how to read or they
would just get a newspaper and look at the pictures.

3. INTERNET
What is Internet?
According to the definition provided by Oxford dictionary, the Internet is an arrangement of
connected computers, which lets the computer users all over the globe exchange data. At the present
time, approximately 33% of the world population has accessibility to the Internet. The Internet is an
extraordinary entertainment and learning tool that may be utilized in a number of modes to increase
the ability of a user to collect information. The principal components of the Internet are the World
Wide Web (WWW) and e-mail. With the passage of time, the Internet has become the most effective
business tool in the contemporary world. It can be described as a global meeting place where people
from every corner of the world can come simultaneously.
The advantages of Internet
Information
The biggest benefit offered by the Internet is information. It functions as a valuable
resource of information. You can find any type of information on any subject with the help
of the search engines like Yahoo and Google.
Communication
The primary goal of the Internet is communication. It has done extremely well in this field,
however the development process is still going on to make it more dependable and quick. By
sending an e-mail, we can contact a person who is physically present thousand miles away
within the fraction of a second’s time.
Entertainment
Internet functions as a popular medium of entertainment. A wide variety of entertainment
including video games, music, movies, chat room, news and others can be accessed through
the Internet.

4. E-commerce
E-commerce is the idea that is implemented for any form of commercial strategy or
business transactions that entails transmission of data from one corner of the world to
another. E-commerce has become a fantastic option through which you can shop anything.
Formation of communities
Internet helps in formation of communities or forums. Here a number of people can
participate in different types of debates and discussions, express their views and gather
valuable knowledge.
Services
A variety of services are offered via Internet, for example job searching, online banking,
buying movie tickets, hotel reservations and consultation services etc. When you avail these
services offline, they become more expensive.

5. The disadvantages of Internet
Spamming
Spamming denotes distribution of unsolicited e-mails in large numbers. They are
meaningless and they unnecessarily block the whole system. These activities are treated as
illegal.
Theft of personal details
While using the Internet, there is high probability that your personal details like name,
address and credit card number may be accessed by con artists and used for fraudulent
purposes.
Pornography
Pornography is definitely harmful for your children. There are numerous pornographic
sites available over the Internet and watching any of those can have very bad influence on
the mental health of your children.
Virus threat
Virus is a program that interrupts the usual operation of your personal computer system.
PCs linked to the Internet have high probability of virus attacks and as a result of this your
hard disk can crash, giving you a lot of trouble.

6. CONCLUSION
From this entire,I’m think the both of them are more important to
humans.
So,as a user we must know the importance of the newspaper and
internet to
Improve our lifestyle and improve our knowledge.
. : THANK YOU : .