People are being forced out of jobs because instead of
people going to towns and shopping in shops buying goods, they are shopping for
everything online. This means that the shops in the high street are closing
down because no one is buying from them. Everyone who used to work in the
closed down shops, now have to search for another job. People shopping online
is creating jobs for others such as delivery men because they are needed to
deliver everything people order. Also there are jobs being created at the
distribution centres of the online shops. When we didn’t have the internet, we
would go to the local town and buy everything we need there. If we couldn’t
find what we wanted, we wouldn’t go online, instead we go without. Now we can
just search the internet for what we want to save having to leave the house in
search for an item.
More and more jobs are now using internet based
applications. People such as office workers are now working with everything
saved online rather than doing everything by hand with pen and paper. This
makes life a lot easier because a lot more work can be done. Emails are sent locally around the company to
other workers, rather than having to go and find them in the building.
With more and more users using the internet and computers to
communicate, we are using fewer natural resources to create methods of
communicating. Instead it is all done online so we don’t need to use paper to
write to a friend. This means fewer trees to be cut down meaning we are more
economical. On the other hand, we are using more power to do the same tasks so
we have to use more natural resources in power plants to provide the extra
power.
