The Effect of ICT on our personal and social life
ICT has made socialising with friends a lot easier and cheaper, it has also added a great deal to what we do in our free time, and how we now share our personal life with the internet.
The internet is one of the main ways we now socialise simply because its easy and basically free, wether it be the internet on our phone or via the internet on computers/laptops we can talk to our friends wherever we are. Facebook, Twitter, MSN, Blogs, Skype are all methods of how we socialise with friends online.
In a way it has taken over people's lives as a lot of people find it hard to go a day without checking their facebook/emails or blogs.
The rapid increase in the use of computers is having an enormous impact on our lives. Our modern way of living simply could not exist if this modern technology were removed. We almost rely on ICT as our way of living, wether it's employment/work, education or socialising.
Facebook is a very popular social networking site and has had a big impact on both our social and personal life. We can easily communicate with friends and family aswell as making new friends, for free via the internet on our laptops, computer, ipads, ipod, phones, etc. This has had both benefits and disadvantages. Many people spend a lot of time on facebook wether it be socialising, updating their profile, contacting someone, but a lot of people would say they waste time on facebook and often stops them doing their work. The majority of students/teenagers asked would say they spend most of their evening on facebook instead of doing work, and at the same time as watching t.v. In terms of privacy it is not as private as people may think and it is not a safe site to use as facebook are not concerned with keeping our information private, they sell our details to their commercial partners so that we can then be identified with relevant information/ advertisments relating to our age/gender/personality.
The news story below describes this and tells us about what facebook is really interested in.
Because of the lack of privacy many things that people post on these social networking sites can be seen by friends, family, employees, this has lead to arguments between people, and it can even lead to be loosing their jobs as a result of their manager or a colleauge seeing something inapropraite they have posted. Due to facebook being easy to use and free it means it is popular but is this a good thing? it has had a big impact on our lives as it has almost taken over our lives in terms of how much time we now spend on the internet. Especially now it has become available and phones and ipods it means these sites can be accessed wherever you are, being able to speak to people and updating their status's to let people know they are 'currently in town' which really nobody needs to know but it has become a habit and a way of life
The article below talks about how facebook is 'a waste of time'
The issue with people spending more and more time on the internet and these sites means they are spending less time actually communicating face to face, doing their work or just reading a book. If this carries on which it most likely will as ICT develops further then who knows what the future holds.
On the right is a questionnaire asking questions about facebook in order for me to get peoples opinions on the site. I surveyed 10 people which included both family and friends so i got a range of results.
-On average 6 people surveyed said they spent 3-5 hours on facebook a day, 3 people said 0-2 hours and 1 person said 5+ hours. Gernally the people spending the most time on facebook were younger.
-I also asked wether the privacy issues bothered them 2 of them said no, 2 said yes and the rest said they didn't realise there were risks involved and their information wasn't safe.
The survey was interesting as it proved my point that facebook has become a big part of our lives but it is also quite worrying that the majority of people don't realise their are risks involved.
Ipads have made it possible for people to read books via this as apposed to reading a hard back book, this is very popular as it means one light thing can contain 30 books instead of carrying 30 heavy books on holiday which would take up the whole of your suitcase weight. Aswell as being able to read books you can also access newspapers, so it means all you really need to carry on a day out is your ipad. It allows you access to emails, the web, vidoes and pictures, so there is no need for anything else if you have one of these. There are many advantages to this use of ICT. In future books will not be needed and everything could be controlled by the use of ICT.
GPS- the Global Positioning System (GPS) is a space-based global navigation satellite system that provides reliable location and time information in all weather and at all times and anywhere on or near the Earth when and where there is an unobstructed line of sight to four or more GPS satellites
GPS has made travelling from one place to another alot easy, wether it be by car, bike or foot, you will be told where you are, where your destination is and how to get there. Many new cars now have a GPS fitted in the car and a lot of other people will buy one that you can easily fit into your car. No matter how far you are travelling you will be guided by a voice via the device.
There are many advantages to a GPS, It is fast speed, leads u in right direction, helps improve mapping skills, makes navagation easier, you can be found easier if in danger or in accident, plugs into your car cigeratte lighter, it tells you if there are speed cameras and it lets you know what roads are closed. Also there are disadvantages cellular devices can track other cellular device users, not very cheap, people focus on GPS more than road = accidents, should be used as backup map but used as 1st resource, needs good care and handling, external power and some need batteries (handheld ones)
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