title: Internet and Advertisement.
abstract: The Internet has revolutionized the way knowledge is currently produced, stored and disseminated. A few finger clicks on a keyboard can save time and many hours of search in libraries or shopping in stores. Online trademarks with an (e-) prefix such as e-library, e-business, e-health etc., are increasingly part of our daily professional vocabularies. However, the Internet has also produced multiple negative side effects, ranging from an unhealthy dependency to a dehumanization of human relationships. Fraudulent, unethical and scam practices are also flourishing through for example misleading online advertising methods. Some social and professional networks gather users' profiles for selling and advertising purposes, sometimes by making it technically difficult to unsubscribe. Here, I discuss some of these unethical aspects and propose some potential solutions to reduce them.
authors.affiliation: Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, Paris, France. khaled.moustafa@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Khaled
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Moustafa
mesh_terms: D000329:Advertising / Q000941:ethics*; D003132:Commerce / Q000941:ethics; D040861:Ethics, Business; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet / Q000941:ethics*; D019359:Knowledge; D018907:Privacy; D061108:Social Media
keywords: Advertising ethics; Internet misuse; Misleading advertisement; Misleading advertising; Online advertising; Professional network; Social network
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