Chapter 5 (Pages 273-301)

- From reading this chapter it covered special interest web sites which provide people with a wide range of information and advice. Also if you are looking for general health, diet, and fitness information online, however, you can choose from hundreds of web sites. Some popular health and diet web sites are MyFoodDiary, eDiets, and Weight Watchers. These sites offer people a veriety features which include calorie meal plans, exercise plans, and support and discussion groups. However, they cost a monthly fee to all users (Figure 1). If you choose to use a free diet or fitness website for free you can use fitness.gov or nutrition.gov (Figure 2). Its a great way to keep track of your health and make sure your staying healthy.


Figure 1- Image of a Fitness Website you can join for a monthly fee.

 

Figure 2- Image of Free Fitness Website.






- There are also thousands of entertainment, hobby, and social interest websites. Food and cooking websites are great ways to learn new recipes and cooking tips. Also these sites provide information about restaurants and cookbooks.
- Museum websites are good to explore if you like viewing natural science, painting, ans sculptures. You can learn about current exhibits, memberships, and hours their open daily.
- For people interested in genealogy you can use web site to find out information about family history. Its becoming one of the worlds most famous growing hobbies. They also offer these for a monthly free but some other sites are available for free.
-Seniors use the internet to enrich their lives by staying connected to family and friends. Thier are a number of websites such as AARP and SeniorNet that cater to the interest of older adults. Regardless of your age or interests, you can likely find and number of web sites to enjoy.

Today Banking and Paying Bills online is become extremely popular. Online can allow you to complete the following tasks. View your accounts, history of account transactions, pay your bills, transfer funds, issue a stop payment, order checks, and etc (Figure 3). Also people could invest online, you can handle your stocks and other investments (Figure 4). There are many websites people use to do banking online although people should be aware of the dangers involved. If someone finds out you password or account information by using spyware or keyloggers you could be introuble. However, from this chapter it showed that thier is a wide range of personal interest sites that people can use. And the internet is continuing to grow and i am sure their is a web site out thier for anyone in the world.



Figure 3- Image of a Banking Website.





Figure 4- Image of a Investing Website.