- Advantages
- It is the fastest medium for transferring information.
- Availability of mainly free information.
- Low cost of initial connection.
- The same protocol of communication can be used for all the services.
- Facilitates rapid interactive communication.
- Facilitates the exchange of huge volumes of data.
- Facilitates the establishment of professional contact.
- Facilitates access to different sources of information, which is continuously up-dated.
- Facilitates management of companies information system.
- lt is accessible from anywhere.
- It has become the global media.
- Disadvantages
- Danger of overload and excess information.
- It requires an efficient information search strategy.
- The search can be slow.
- It is difficult to filter and prioritize information.
- No guarantee of finding what one is looking for.
- There is a lot of apparently unconnected information.
- Net becomes overloaded because of large number of users.
- No regulation.
- No quality control over available data.
- The ease with which information can be constantly up-dated can cause problems of referencing.
