The World Wide Web is a new invention that dates back to 1989. The Internet offers a lot of possibilities; however, there are also some dangers associated with it. One of the things that is bothering some users is the fact that they cannot be as anonymous on the Internet as they wish they could be. Some wonder whether it is fair that everyone can see where anyone is from by simply looking at their IP address. In fact, there might be a solution to this issue, and I am talking about proxies. Basically, they allow users to connect to websites indirectly by masking the IP address of the user. It sounds great, but using proxies may not work that well for many reasons. Most Internet users do not intend to use such services in the nearest future. It might be because proxy servers usually drastically slow down Internet connection speed and response time.

Let us look at the issue from a different perspective. If everybody on the Internet was completely anonymous, then the Internet would be a perfect haven for cheaters and criminals. It would be impossible to track them down. As we can see, there are positive and negative sides to everything. If we were anonymous on the Internet, then also hundreds of scammers would be anonymous. It is interesting to speculate how in the future we will solve this problem. Nonetheless, I still think that Internet users deserve some privacy so I have nothing against using proxies.