Today most of us who work online and make money at home face many peculiar problems which are specific to those who work from home on internet. These drawbacks I think will take a large shape in next few years when most people in society will start working at home online. Earning money online at home which is today just beginning of a trend and most of its drawbacks are undiscovered and unstudied. This trend of working from home and earning money online can pose serious threat to our social structure other than a number of problems for individual at family level. Working from home on internet is like working in a virtual environment and virtual office, where everything that exists now may not exist tomorrow or even after a few minutes. These

1. No time for family or All time for family: All those who earn money working at home face this problem. It is very difficult to balance online work and family issues. There are times when there is no time for online work as one gets engaged in one issue after another at home, and it becomes really very difficult to concentrate on online work. On other occasions when an online worker is busy in some online project for hours and days he hardly finds any time for family. Although he is at home he isn't aware of what is going on because he has developed a workplace, an office environment at home and whenever he is free he tends to think about his online work and earning money.

2. No time or place to relax : Home is a place called 'Home sweet home' now if we are working full time in this place, within the space that was earlier meant for relaxation. Earning money and doing work often comes with stresses, which come and go but with 'online work at home' all these things happen in a place where we used to relax. During stressful period there is no time to relax, as the solution to the problem lies in more work and spending more time online. Next is the problem of place to relax, it is very difficult to find relaxation in the same place where you work even if its home.

3. No social interaction : When we earn money online by working at home, we hardly move out of the house, because if we are earning good money, we'll like to work more and earn more money due to greedy human nature. On the other hand if we are not earning any money or are loosing money then we will like to make some changes and improvements in our work, therefore we'll spend some more time online at home. This means we don't interact with society, we spend our time in online societies which are virtual. This is one of the major drawback which will bring a major change in social structure as people will work at home and spend time online, resulting in a poor and meek society. A subject of interest for social scientists.

These are some of the side-effects of making money online at home, may be these are not thought provoking but they do exist and have a major impact on both our earning money online and working at home. This article is just a brief outline and just a preliminary report. These issues must be considered before starting a full time home based earning program, as everyone can't make adjustments all the time even if he is earning good money online working at home.

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