is IT good or bad?

IT has both good and bad influence, but we see that it cause more good rather than bad. IT plays a role in education, business, daily life, social life and entertainment.
In education, IT helps in finding the study material, references such as journals and theses. Now students can search for references anytime, anywhere with the facilities of IT that is now widely provided. Furthermore, now students can involve themselves in E-learning, where they can access their own study portals by themselves and also have tele-conference with the lecturers. With this developed technology, they are not limited by the distance or time. As the technology is worldwide, they can have discussion regardless of how far they are from the references. This also helps a lot for those who are busy such as those who work and study at the same time, and also it enables people of all ages to study.
In business, we can see that online purchasing or auctions has become very competitive. People opt for this to save time, and they also get to know a better information of the goods or services purchased. This hence increase consumerisme, where consumers have a better knowledge and know their rights. IT also make global trading possible. Goods from a certain country can easily be promoted to other countries via internet. This can increase the export quantity of the country.
IT always help in settling personal stuffs such as paying the bills, cashing in the deposit into the bank account, booking flight tickets, etc. Along with the growth of IT, more and more services introduce online operation. This makes our daily life easier as we go along the hectic life.
IT is known as a major medium of communication nowadays. IT can unite people from different parts of the world despite of their differences. Gaps between different countries, different continents become smaller. People can know each other through the internet, sharing thoughts, making friends, searching for long-lost friend, etc. Therefore it can be said that IT unites the world.
Another thing which IT is very well-known for is for entertainment. People can search for music, videos, games, etc to enrichen their life, either by subscribing or downloading them for free. Or else life would be boring. IT also can be a medium to promote arts, talents and masterpieces. It can thus be a very useful medium to attract people's attention.
So we can conclude that IT benefited in almost everything. Therefore that can explain why we need IT just like we need our assistant in life... :-)