Key to ielts writing on 8th, march, 2012 What is the importance of new types of media? And their appearance has a positive or negative effect on our society? Word count: 499 Written: Pham Thi Le Na Timing: 17 minutes Human used to employ rudimentary such as stone and bone-notching to communicate with each other centuries ago which are now replaced by television and internet. In the view of some, the continuous appearance of the new types of media is conducive to a significant growth of our society while others hold the idea that there are more pains than gains, exacerbating people’s relation. My essay will discuss causes and effects of the latest kinds of media. Television, which appeared just five decades ago, has been seen as one of revolutionary inventions. It is through images updated on television that people can make sense of recent happenings and take actions in time. Let’s take the natural disaster as an example. Only after seeing the casualties have governments and people been aroused to raise campaigns in support of the needy. Also, for students who are eager for knowledge, the programs on history, environment and others are great sources for them to discover and dig deeper. Yet, the truth is that so obsessed with entertainment programs on television are quite a few people that they are rarely able to concentrate on their work and suffer eye problems. What is shown on television as well is not always the authentic reflection of the world, which is likely to mislead people. Studies have, too, shown that the rate of people suffering obesity is on a non-stop climb as a result of a society full of socalled “couch potatoes”

Internet, viewed a badge as the king media in the recent times, plays an important role. Since the arrival of the Internet, people around the world are increasingly connected and are able to make use of the world’s intellectual pool to the fullest extent. The birth of such internet websites as face-book, google and the like is believed to dissolve people’s physical distance and turn the world into a nest. According to the survey, up to billions of people are using these Internet websites to search for information, a figure far exceeding that of other past media. Equally important, businessmen who dream of bigger market share are grateful to the Internet for expanding their business to anywhere within seconds. Pessimists, however, fear that behind this amazing picture are immediate and potential risks. Children who spend hours in front of computer screen grow passive and alienate themselves from the real world. With flows of information bombarding people from all fronts, individuals become disoriented and hardly filter in the reliable news. Several kids, as a consequence of being passionate for their games online on the internet, imitate the violent behavior of their virtual heroes and end their lives as a series-killer like the case of Le Van Luyen, a teenage boy that took the life of six people in my nation. In brief, along with any development lie potential drawbacks, and the most important is that we-human- should be well aware of both sides, and especially, to children, certain guidance is necessary to keep them from unwanted influence