"The main tendeny in the literature has been to analyze how the internet changes society, most analysts ientify fundamental societal changes" (Wrote by Jan, N)
The internet is truely influencing our society, the range is widely, which includs education, business and so on. Nowadays, people could buy clothes online instead of go shopping, our life style has been changed by internet, and also the business environment has totally changed approaching the IT technology. Everytime when the IT companies innocated new software or created successful website, many stakeholders will rapidly find the market information and fast reflect the potential market, targeting their customers in order to earn profts by internet. My own experience is that in Nov, 2008, China's offical department announced that San Lu milk powder contains unhealthy elements, suddenly parents scare to buy domestic milk powders products and most of them are trying to buy powder on Taobao website, the website is like Ebay or Gumtree, because they trust some oversea brands which like New Zeland brand" Fonterra". At that moment, I was in New Zeland, and most of NZ people were trying to sell NZ powder in Chinese Taobao, and they received the oder and then post the products to the customers. So we can see that how the technology and internet influence our life and society, its not only influence on a single society, but also in globalization.
"The lack of regulation can also by explained in terms of the internet being such a quickly developing and changing technology" (Wrote by Jan, N)
Also discuss the same topic as the above, after a few months, Chinese government seted regulation about selling and delivering the milk powder to China, and then limited the milk powder's quota, because there are many different kinds of brands were selling on the Tao Bao website, some of their products are not safety, consumers can not recognize the real and good brand on these oversea milk powder brands. Indeed, internet develop and change too fast and the governments should keep monitoring and build up regulation on the internet in order to protect the customer's benefits.