Social Impacts of IT: Privacy and Cyber Security Risks

1. The Social Impacts Of IT There are many social impacts of the use of I.T because of the internet and various websites. Many websites include social network sites for example Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, MSN, Skype, Ebuddy, Tumblretc…Cyber bullying is the main cause from the sites, and there's a thing against privacy because its gives the chance for people that you don’t know, can see your information and some of it may be personal. There is bad things by using social networks for example, viruses, being hacked and more. Robert Howbridge

2. Mobile Phones If you put your number into a social network website and the settings are on random then everyone will be able to see it and in you could get called by some random person. Anyone can access your number if you insert it into a social networking website if your settings isn’t private. Id make sure only friends can see it or just don’t put your phone number in if you don’t want to be harassed. If you log on to your Facebook using your phone, your number automatically goes onto the website for everyone to see. Robert Howbridge

3. Economic IT has led to changes in many jobs and created many new job titles including ICT technician, network manager, data manager, games designer, web designer, forum moderator, computer programmer, software designer and hacker. The use of internet for purchasing holidays and shopping has been generated to be a safe environment depending on if it’s the real website. Robert Howbridge

4. Threats Threats may include viruses, spam, identity theft, spyware cyber bullying, hard drive failure, corruption of backup data (perhaps by fire) the threats can cause various incidents so using social networks are mostly negative but are only positive when you want to talk to your friends. Overall I think that the use of social networks are positive but mostly turn negative. Robert Howbridge