Social impacts of ICT

Local Community IT has been good in the local community for families who need to keep in touch with family they can use Facebook and Skype to communicate. The disadvantages would be No opportunity to socialize Not keeping fit Get distracted by family

Availability of jobs IT development is affecting jobs because businesses are using robots to control everything now this has affected humans because now there are no jobs available because now technology has made it easier. The quality of a robot is a lot better because the work gets done quicker and also for a company they don’t have to pay for employees which they can save them a lot of money. Some advantages of a robot is that the robot doesn't stop working unless they are turned which means that the company can get a lot of produce done.

Inequality in Broadband Most areas in the country don’t have access to broadband which means that some people don’t get an opportunity to access the web. People who don’t have access to the web will not know a lot and will miss out on socializing with family and friends they won’t be able to use: News Facebook Shop Online

Potential threats of IT Cyber Bulling: Online bullying is when children or teenagers use the web, or mobile phones or any other technology to threaten, tease or embarrass another young person. Bullying victims are 2 to 9 times more likely to consider committing suicide. To protect yourself from cyber bulling is to be kind to others online will help to keep you safe. Do not share anything that could hurt or embarrass anyone. Denial of service: A Denial of Service attack (DoS) is an attack that attempts to block access to a certain resource. DDoS attack victims are Ping of Death - bots create huge electronic packets and sends them on to victims. Phishing: Phishing means sending an that falsely claims to be from a particular enterprise your university, your Internet service provider, your bank. If there's a problem with a bank or credit card account, they'll call you. If the tax authorities want to contact you, they do it by mail. Spam Explain, how serious is each threats, how to protect yourself