Social impacts of IT
P6
Before
Information technology had its ‘BOOM’, there were other ways to communicate. We
communicated through one to one interaction to start off which is face to face
communication, people now days can get lonely because they are losing the
interaction due to locking themselves away on consoles etc. We also used
letters more because we did not have the internet so written communication was
nice to receive one and also postcards were lovely to receive as well. Within
the last 10 years lots of social networking sites have been created for example
Facebook was created in 2004 and twitter was created in 2006. Fax was created
in the late 1990s and then instead of sending letters people could fax them
instead, it’s quicker and simpler. It is a machine that allows you to write a
message on a piece of paper and place it in the machine and then send it
anywhere it is quick and doesn’t cost much to send a message however sending a
letter would take a while.
The internet
has created threats to the world such as Cyber Bullying which is the use of the
internet to harm or harass people, SPAM which is the use of messages to bribe
you to open and give your details or something else, PHISHING which is
attempting to get information such as surnames, passwords etc., And Denial of
services or denial of service attack is an attempt to make a machine or network
resource unavailable to its intended users.
Online
banking, now people can participate in online banking however there are good
and bad things about it, for example, online banking saves time and easy to
transfer your money from one account to another and however if you don’t know
how to use it then it can download a virus onto your device and people can get
your details, also with online banking you are able to use it 24 hours a day, 7
days a week. Online shopping is also
like online banking, there are good and bad things about it, it is easier and
quicker to order your shopping because you can flick through the pages of food,
drink etc. and click on what you want and then you can have the shopping
delivered to your door and you don’t have to leave your house however there are
some disadvantages to online shopping which are that’s orders can get mixed up,
bank details can be stolen and they can take more money than they are supposed
to also due to online shopping it has effected businesses because businesses
that have websites then their business is ok but businesses that don’t have
websites, like the small businesses have gone bust. Also another disadvantage
to online shopping is that if they don’t have the thing you want in stock they
often send a replacement and sometimes the quality of the item is not as good
as was expected.
Mobile
phones have developed since 1905; we first had the brick mobile which was 0g.
it could only ring, then we developed them for texting, since then we have had
nokia’s, Motorola’s, iPhones etc. and now we have Samsung watches and now we
can use the internet on phones to Skype, social networking and much more and
now it is like a mini computer. However there are disadvantages to mobile
phones, they are: that they produce radiation and can spread round your body
and they can produce viruses.
Computer
misuse comes into this because in 1990 the computer misuse act was introduced.
The computer misuse act is designed to protect computer users from theft of
information; this includes hacking, unauthorised access and damaging software.
The internet now uses E-Commerce which is a whole new world of shopping both
for the customer and the retailer. In this country and other countries people
without access to computers and internet are affected because if they live in
the middle of no ware then they can’t access it which means that they are
missing out on a lot of things that are available. However now there are a lot
of things getting done to change this.
