The impact of e-commerce on people's lives

The impact of e-commerce on consumers' way of life can be said to be multifaceted, mainly in the following aspects.

1, the change of the way of obtaining information

(1) In the way of e-commerce, in addition to obtaining information from the traditional media such as television, radio, books and newspapers and magazines, people can also obtain the information they need from a brand new media, the Internet network.

(2) Internet network through a large number of at least a thousand people a day and even hundreds of thousands of people visit the site, realizing the role of the real mass media, it can be faster than any one way, more intuitive, more effective to spread a message or idea. And the network dissemination of information has the characteristics of two-way, the customer according to their own needs to obtain information, and there is no time, geographical restrictions.

(3) The reason why the information site is hot is because it can be traded and inquired about; sports site to attract many sports enthusiasts, because it not only has real-time sports reports, but also allows sports enthusiasts to post their own comments on it. Other two-way information services are also available through the Web, such as yellow pages to find business opportunities and job sites to search for jobs.

(4) In addition, compared with traditional print publications, online publications have many advantages. First of all, the cost of online publications (e-magazines, e-newspapers, etc.) is extremely cheap, and this advantage is especially obvious in today's situation where paper is expensive. Secondly, online publications have a wide readership. With the increase in the number of network users, a good web page than a good book or newspaper spread more widely, online information is greater and more convenient to obtain.

(5) As online publications use hypertext files, they can point to all the contents related to the web page in the Internet network by means of links, no matter whether they are conducting theoretical research, reading news or looking for business information, they can easily find related materials. Therefore, more and more people use the Internet to obtain information services, and online information services have become an important aspect of e-commerce.

2, the change of shopping

(1) The promotion of e-commerce has made home shopping a reality. As long as the consumer opens the computer, knock on the keyboard, you can enter the online store, view thousands of catalogs, from which to select the goods they want, and then check the specifications and performance of the goods, with the application of multimedia technology, but also in the computer screen to see the goods of the photographs and even three-dimensional graphics. For the selected product, the consumer simply pulls up the order form and fills it out and adds his or her number for payment. The order is confirmed and sent out, and the merchant receives the order almost immediately, and then delivers or sends out the goods purchased by the customer.

(2) Payment methods will also be greatly transformed. Internet consumers will be able to get banking services, including savings, transfers, checking accounts,, securities, trading, insurance and financial management, 24 hours a day, anywhere and at any time, simply by having an Internet account.

3, the change of education

(1) Internet network and e-commerce has brought about a change in the way people receive education. With the widespread use of the Internet, the promotion of e-commerce, the network school came into being, which belongs to a way of modern distance education. It is based on computer communication technology and network technology, the use of remote real-time multi-point, two-way interactive multimedia modern means of teaching, real-time transmission of sound, images, electronic courseware and teacher's book, teachers and students in two places like on-site teaching two-way audio-visual question and answer, is a realization of the process of transmitting across the education of time and space.

(2) compared with the traditional school, the advantages of the network school is: first, it does not need to serve the student life of the huge logistical support agencies, school administrators and institutions are also greatly reduced. Second, it can exclude geographical differences and narrow the gap between the quality of teaching in advanced and backward areas. Real-time, interactive distance education can also enable a variety of ideas to communicate and exchange. Third, it can best utilize the advantages of good teachers and good teaching materials.

(3) traditional schools and localized instruction can only affect a classroom, a school up to a region. And the network school coverage can reach the entire network. Online school and other distance education methods such as radio universities, television universities and other comparisons, very good interactivity, real-time is its outstanding advantages. In short, online education is a low-cost, effective, large coverage, and easy to popularize high-quality education of a new type of education.

(4) This kind of education makes people have a new way to receive education. This new way of education has great significance in modern society. Because, the progress and development of society requires that people in all fields and levels of society need to learn and update their knowledge constantly. This puts new tasks on education. The target of education is no longer only school students, but also practitioners of various age levels, knowledge structures, levels of demand and industries. This lifelong continuing education and training tasks, from time and space are not now the school form and structure can be competent, especially the need to use e-commerce as a means of commercialization and its corresponding application of technology to support.

4, entertainment, leisure changes

(1) Internet network and e-commerce on people's entertainment, leisure has also brought changes. People can leave their homes on the network to buy and watch new and old movies and television programs produced in various countries, you can buy and enjoy your favorite musicians, singers play and sing the old and new tracks, you can get on the network to get a lot of love, a wide variety of games, and can be through the network and any place on the planet at the same time in a game, "playing" in the dark, to determine a winner.

(2) If you want, you can find like-minded friends in this vast world of the network, interested in the issue of the heart to talk a lot of fun, and even the network can become a bride, so that you find a lifelong partner. On the network you can also do things that can not be done in real life, such as feeding your favorite pets, you can plant flowers and trees, you can become a farmer hard seeding, plowing to get the joy of harvest, of course, all of this is virtual, is the network to provide people with a new way of leisure. It can be predicted that the Internet online entertainment, leisure for people will have more and more attractive, and thus provide this new entertainment, leisure is the emerging industry of e-commerce.　

5, e-commerce to bring changes in human life, so that humans have a new life experience and a higher quality of life.