Response to Jack “Will there be a day where everything is bought online?”

Is buying everything online foolproof or should we be hesitant? Well there are several points of view on making online purchases. First off, there is the argument that making frequent purchases online will actually help the natural environment by reducing exhaust emissions, which will help keep the air less polluted. That’s one of the arguments that some tree hugger would put out there. But for the safety of a person’s identity there are definitely some precautions that should be taken. Typing your credit card number into any and every site will obviously greatly increase the chance of someone or a company misusing your card number. This is usually a bigger issue with the bank and not so much the card holder due to the fact that most cards have protection against stolen card numbers from online purchases. So basically if there is a problem, its mostly within the bank, which means the choice of online purchasing or not is really up to the consumers preference. Although there might be some occurrences where there’s some type of theft with the card, but the bank will have to figure it out and usually won’t count against you. With that said if the consumer is willing to take the chance and the hassle credit card identity theft then they shouldn’t be hesitant to sit down, have their credit card ready and start shopping.