Introduction
Internet cafes
have greatly spread in the world.
The original
purpose behind the openings of the internet café was to create new job
fields, to achieve some profit, and to compensate for the lack of access
to internet at homes.
Through these
cafes, young people were able to search for information within the great
library that is the internet. With time, it has also become a great
social communication tool that the youth used in order to fill their
leisure time and for entertainment.
It is seldom we
find a Lebanese town that doesn’t have internet café centers where most
of its clients are young people. It is in these youth we can discover
whether internet cafes are a blessing or a curse, through they are the
ones who understand the role of internet cafes and their impact on their
daily lives.
There is no
doubt that the work of Internet cafe is a profitable business
financially for their owners. The question is: Are these
cafes profitable for the youth on the moral and intellectual levels?
The Problem
Internet cafes
have become broadly attractive to young people/. These cafes imposed a
new reality, which is their positive role in providing knowledge
vis-ŕ-vis their negative role in becoming an unbeneficial entertainment
tool. The students themselves have an important role in evaluating
the phenomenon of internet cafes, and in finding ways to promote and
highlight their positive aspects while trying to work on decreasing and
eventually eliminating their negative impact.
Objectives
The objectives of
the project are as follows:
1.
To
conceptualization the role of Internet cafes in young people’s lives in
different cultures and societies
2.
To come up
with a vision to develop the positive aspects of Internet cafes
3.
To
highlight the negative as well as the positive aspect of the roles of
these cafes
4.
To
highlight the role of young people to protect themselves and protect
their community from the negative aspects o the Internet
5.
To develop the idea of working
online as a team
