ONLINE SHOPPING

Internet is everytime offering more and more facilities, which can lead to a point in which we will be able to do anything through it.  Shopping is one of the activities that is becomind more popular to do online, but is it really an adavantadge or it has more cons than pros?

On the one hand, shopping on the Internet can be a good option in terms of convenience

because you don't need to leave your house and this can be useful for people who don't have much time or for who it it difficult to go and buy in the shops for any other reason. Also it broadens your possibilities, because it allows you tu buy things that are not sold close to where you live. This means you can get to products you would only be able to get to moving to the place it is sold, which can sometimes be so far away. 

Also, on the Internet you can sometimes find the products cheaper than they are in a regular shop, so you can save some money. Even though you may have to pay the shipping costs, in some cases it can still end up being cheaper, because you haven't had to pay for the transport to go to the shop, that sells the product at a higher price than online. 

On the other hand, however, shopping online can be a risky. In the first place, you can't be sure if the web page in which you are shopping can be trustable. It can be a good online shop and you can get your products perfectly the way you wanted, but there's also the possibility you pay and then you never get your purchase and you have no way to have your money back. In the second place, shopping online doesn't allow you to really see what you are buying. On the Internet there will be a photo, but it can be retouched or it can be a photo of a totally different product. And also, even though the photo is real, you can only see the product through a photo, you cannot see it and judge it in real life. This means that when you get the product it might not be what you were expecting as it can't turn out to be a different thing or maybe the quality is a lot worse than you expected.

Furthermore, buying on the Internet stops you from going to regular shops, which means that those business are losing money and this leads to the reduction of jobs and the clousure of the little shops that maybe have been opened for generations. 

In conclusion, I do agree in the convenience online shopping offers, as well as all the different possibilities and advantadges, but it is also important to keep in mind all the disadvantadges it has and its consequences. From my point of view, it's okay to buy some things on the Internet, but not everything. This way you keep buying things that are not necessary to be bought online in regular shops. On the Internet you can buy, for example, things that maybe only sell in a different country of far away from where you live, or things that can be trustable, for example books, that you can be sure it will be the same quality as if you buy it in a shop. But in other cases, I think it's better to buy them on a regular shop, so you can exactly see and be aware of what you are buying.