Social impacts of IT

By jess Bryant443598029Unit 1

social• Allowing others to access your personal information puts a risk to your self. Websites such as bebo , twitter , tumblr ,

Facebook etc. all have a public profile . You can put I lock on this by going into your settings and changing your account settings to only friends . Or on twitter you can lock your profile so only you and your followers can view our profile and your tweets . Some websites lead anyone to see your profile by typing in your name it will appear.

• Employers can view your profile to see if you are suitable for thee job . If you have status or your profile is inappropriate they may think you are not suitable for the job.

• Some people have Facebook up or twitter while they are doing work or important course work . This leads to distractions so the job will not get done.

• You can multi task on phones in this day and age so you can be surfing the web , be on Facebook while listening to music on the go. Most phones have Wi-Fi and hot spots are available all over so many phones now come with it.

economic• You can use the interenet for buying items such as books , clothes , furniture or . Ordering foods from online website such

as just eat,. reading books on websites (also tabs or phones can download software's) or checking mail both on your phone or on laptops.

• You can plan and buy holidays direct from websites to save having to leave the house . You can order grocery from stores by there websites. And get them delivered the next day.

• ICT related jobs have help to boost up the economy , more and more people are picking up jobs . For example a gaming designer , this is easy to take but just needs creativity and knowledge of software's. Another example is a web designer , theses are well paid jobs .Google , yahoo and Bing are the 3 most popular web search bars .

• This has changed the way high street looks . Many shops are forced to close down as online buinessing has shot up.

threats• Many websites lead to threats such as hacking .. Creating accounts under your name then adding your friends then

uploading status that may harm others. • Some websites can put virus on your computer , these can be protected with software that can be bought and downloaded

to your computer to stop you from getting them.• Spam messages can pop up or attack your inbox so software an also be downloaded to prevent spam.• Cyber bulling may cause some people to deactivate accounts as they get horrible messages . These may be jokes to some

people but they cannot see the persons face on the other end.• Hard drive failure can be really annoying as if you have lots of important work and your computer stops then you have lost

your work . So back up hardware can be attached to makes sure all your work is safe .• Corruption of the back up data from the spare hardware means there is no back up plan. So saving your work on a memory

stick will help save it.