6. WHAT ARE THE MAIN ADVANTAGES AND

DISADVANTAGES OF THE WORLD WIDE WEB IN TERMS

OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION?

ADVANTAGES

exchange of huge volumes of data

lt is accesible from anywhere

Reduces the costs of  

divulgation

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

• It is difficult to filter and prioritize information

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• 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

7. CAN YOU MAKE A LIST OF BUZZ WORDS ABOUT WEB 2.0?

AVATAR

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SOCIAL BOOKMARKING

WIKI

MICROBLOGGING

PODCASTING