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The foregoing mentioned are only a few the wonderful privileges offered to us by the internet. These privileges also have its positive and negative effects on people. Sure, being afflicted with diseases is one cause why people use the internet to look for health information. Little did they know that what they are doing may bring harm to their mental stability, these people may have all the good intentions. Knowing too much about health conditions may cause rumination thereby triggering anxiety or hypochondriasis which is the ‘over preoccupation’ of having severe illness. Now let me tell you something. Obtaining too much information about diseases may bring about pointless concerns for their own health or for their family. Also, on the brighter side of things, easy communication brought about by the internet augments social ties and creates new ones.
Distance does not anymore prove to be a barrier for loved ones to bond. People who have reduced social communication since their distance are observed to have poor psychological functioning and high stress levels. Just remember that the real world is outside and that too much of anything is generally not good, in order to help you with. How it affects you will still rely on the way you use it. Consequently, these things do not necessarily happen to everyone using the internet as they are all but possibilities.