This October, the interact celebrated its 40th birthday. In the past 40 years, this great invention has changed our lives in many ways, including our shopping habits. A big attraction. Not long ago, I became an online shopper. I had heard about online shopping before, but I had no intention of following the trend. It was not until my room bought some cosmetics via the internet and both mom and I tried them and were satisfied with the purchase that I finally decided to register for Taobao, China' s leading e-commerce website. Soon, I found cyberspace to be a shopping paradise. There are a lot of cheap daily necessities such as clothes, books, stationery etc. Lots of choices, lower of prices and great convenience making shopping online a big attraction. A new platform. Generally speaking, I'm satisfied with goods I' ve bought online, but it doesn't means that I can fully trust e-shopping. On many BBS forums online shoppers bitterly condemn a few e-shops for selling low-quality goods and cheating them of their money. Since no one likes being cheated, some people have turned to a new platform. for e-shopping. They have started to buy and sell goods via social net-working websites—for example, two of my classmates have recently set up an e-store on Renren to sell colored contact lenses. (镜片)There is little risk of being cheated, since the sellers are the people we know well. A good suggestion Although there are many advantages of doing business via social networking websites, I think it's improper for high school students to do business with schoolmates. First, doing business means shouldering huge responsibilities, and we're not mature enough to have them. Second, our present main task is studying, when doing business is pretty time-consuming. Third, if you are dissatisfied with what you' ve bought from your friends, what will you do? If you return your purchases, you may hurt your friends' feelings if you keep silent, you may not feel happy. Shakespeare once said, 'To be or not to be, that's a question. ' If you don't want to face such problems, please follow suggestion: be careful when shopping online and don' t make profits from friendship. What mainly made the writer become interested in e-shopping?