what are social networking sites:

social networking sites are  websites that allow people to socialise online. socila networking sites asllow people to do the following things;

• send messges to one another.
• share interests and information.
• chat.
• meet people.
• post information about themselves for other to look at.

 There are many different social networking sites where people can communicate with each other and talk about there every day life. Today everyone is using social networking sites for communication including teenagers to seniors.


 there are many different kinds of socila networking sites available today and these are the following:
·        Facebook
·        Blogger
·        Twitter
·        YouTube
·        Google
·        Internet
·        Email

• What is an email?
• An email (electronic mail) is a system that receives, sends and stores electronic messages. Email has become a preferred method for both personal and business communication
• Email is a good and easy way of communication as it often replaces writing letters, phoning and meeting face to face.

The advantages of communicating by email are:

·         Quick delivery and reply of messages

·         Convenient

·         Can contact a group of people at once

·         there is No limit on how short or how long the message should be

·         Can attach large documents and other files with a click of a button

·         Doesn't use any paper (good for the environment)

 

Facebook:
Facebook is a social networking site that is a great way of communicating with your friends and keeping up with what they are doing. Ones you have added a friend to your face book friend list you will always know when they are adding stuff to their blog or updating their profile Facebook page can help volunteers become more deeply connected to your mission.

 

 

 

The advantages of facebook are:

• Keep track of friend
• You can add photos and photo albums to your Facebook profile.
• Blog Merge
• Excellent Search and Browse

What is a blog?

A blog is A Web site on which an individual or group of users record opinions, information, etc. on a regular basis.

 
twitter

Twitter like facebook is a social networking site where you can post on other peoples blog Twitter is used to let people know what you are up to. Like facebook it allows you to communicate with your friends or family member no matter where they are in the world. 

The advantages of twitter are that you can contact your friends, it is easy to use, easy to join, twitter can be automated and it can offer widgets and apps.

  What is yahoo?

Yahoo Messenger is one of the most popular instant messaging (IM) networks, that support PC to PC phone calls, file sharing, and chat. The Yahoo Messenger IM client and network are available free of charge

Internet:

An internet terms is a network of the interlinked computer that is networking worldwide, which is accessible to the general public.

Advantages of the internet:

 

Faster Communication.

Information Resources.

Entertainment.

Online shopping.

Social Networking.

E-commerce.

 

Disadvantages of the internet:

• Theft of Personal Information
• Spamming.
• Virus Threat.
• Pornography.
• Social Disconnect.
• Cyber bullying etc.

What is YouTube?

YouTube is a video-sharing website on which users can upload, share, and view videos.

 the advantages of YouTube is that you can download any music or movie to watch for free.

Google:

Google is an search engine. Google Search is the most-used search engine on the World Wide Web it receives several hundred million queries every day through its various services.

 

 

 

 

 



                                                                                                              

The Reasons Why Social Networking Is A Great Way Of Communicating

§   Social networking is a good way of communicating with one or more people through social networking sites such as face book, twitter, hotmail, MySpace, email, msn, Bebo, instagram, bbm, Skype, podcasting, YouTube and Google. As an example YouTube has videos that can be uploaded, removed, shared and viewed by millions people across the world also, comments can be put beneath the video and they can make humorous jokes, have debates or talk about a topic issue and have a laugh or two about the video. Google is the world’s biggest search engine and the reason is because most of the people use it on a daily basis.

§   In another example of an everyday scenario for office workers, staff or boss use email as a quick, easy and simple way of communicating to each other with their workers, clients, staff etc... Such as when the next business trip is, who will be promoted employee of the year or what improvements are needed to make better the business. There are different kinds of emails such as hotmail or msn and email is sending a message to someone electronically. Communicating by social networking sites with Skype, face book or email are great ways of communicating to those that are in another town or in another country.

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Cari-Ann's Blog: Social Impacts of I.T

Cari-Ann's Blog: Social Impacts of I.T:

How the Social Impacts of I.T help Communities and Individuals

Digital Divide is a social issue which concerns the amount of information being received by those who do or do not have access via the broadband this was introduced by scholars and advocacy groups. These include different countries that are more needy by helping them to access the internet by giving them resources such as the availability and quality of connection but some of them would exploit this. There are may projects going on such as the 50x15 Initative or the one laptop per child with the Initative is is already in Brazil, China and so may other countires. Which help to learn english with something called learning labs and will help 50 per cent more world access to the internet by year 2015.

For the one laptop per child project this will help billions of children from emerging counitries more access to learning the english language and to learn about things which is classed as education.    Some disadvantages include lower performance, high price connection last is obtaining techincal assistance for when anything happens to the system and they can't work out the reason why. The compuer or network is an increasing role which is helped for learning and your career if not the digital divide would be treated unfairly for children from a poor background who will need the support.

What is video conferencing?

Video conferencing is when you use a webcam to chat with people who are far. Businesses use video conferencing and also people who have relatives or friends that live far away from them. The benefits for video conferencing for companies is that it saves company a lot of money and employees can give meeting through video conferencing if they are far from each other.
 

What is data protection act?

A data protection act (DPA) is a law that is designed to protect personal data that is stored on computers or in an organised paper filing system. The data protection act as developed to give protection and lay down about how data about people can be used. The people who have their personal data stored are often called data subjects. The data protection act sets up rights for people who have data kept about them and these rights are:

· A Right of Subject Access

· A Right of Correction

· A Right to Prevent Distress

· A Right to Prevent Direct Marketing

· A Right to Prevent Automatic Decisions

· A Right of Complaint to the Information Commissioner

· A Right to Compensation.

 

 

 

Securing data:

 there are a number of ways in which data can be secure:

They would need to be aware of the potential issues that can affect their network:

·        Viruses

·        Backups

·        Hacking

·        Malware

·        Identity theft.

Viruses: a virus is something that someone has made to damage the computer for their own use.  A virus can damage files and the computer. Organisations can prevent this by installing virus protection software and by not opening attachments to emails from unknown sources.  

Backups: organisations would do a lot of backups in case their system wipes out because of viruses, backing up basically means saving your  work on an external hard drive or on your emails this is to avoid possible loss of data, and if the system does wipe out you can bring your work back again.

 

Hacking: hacking is an act of breaking into the computer system and this is a criminal offence. Businesses would prevent hacking by installing firewalls which creates a software barrier, preventing other network users from gaining access to data on your computer.

 

Malware: malware is software that is intended to damage or disable computers and computer systems. Malware includes viruses, worms and Trojans or any other software program that has been designed to cause an unsuspecting user a problem. A Trojan is an email virus that is released by an email attachment.

 

Identity theft: an identity theft is when someone steals your personal information electronically and they use it for committing a crime.  Passwords on computers are there to make computer security better.  However, some people use spyware to spy on passwords to make PC identity theft easier.  To guard against this, you need to install anti virus software and update it every six weeks.

 

What is Copyright?

This is something which is given to the original author so they can publish their work but if they never give permission to anyone else then no one has the right to publish it. But if they break this rule they could face quite amount of trouble or worse serve life imprisonment.

 

 

What is Ownership?

 

Ownership means you possess the rights to it and it cannot be copyrighted. Which will mean if anyone asks to use it they cannot use without your permission? But if they have you ask to use your name because you are the owner of that item.



 

 What is an E-Mail?

 

Is an electronic mail service which is a communication tool that allows you to contact people when using a computer, worldwide or even locally such as your workplace or at home in your study area. For example using something like outlook or even social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Blogger these are kind of sites to use but not always the best because you can get easily get bullied 24/7.

 

 

 

 

 



 

 

 

What is a Wiki?

Wiki is a piece of server software that is allowed to be used by different users to create a website or add, edit, modify or delete content by a way of simplified mark up language or rich text editor.       For example the website is called Wikipedia which is used to interact with the users by them typing on the site or even searching for a certain something to use for a topic or even for personal reasons. This is why it is called Wiki or Wikipedia there are many reasons why you use this because the user is then able to transfer data from one place to another with just the keyboard or their mind. 



Social Impacts of I.T

How the Social Impacts of I.T help

Communities and Individuals

Digital Divide is a social issue which concerns the amount of information being received to those who have access to the internet and those who do not with things like quality of connection and related services. There are some that are quite vital to civic life which will help socities divide a single gap into two groups but can have a disadvantage of lower performance or high price connections. The problem they have right now is the developing countries because some of them steal the internet and will not give it to the more needy and use it for their own gain and selfishness.

 

 Potential Threats     

• Viruses - This is something that can corrupt your data files and easily damage your computer in a few seconds so just be aware when downloading anything always scan them before hand. 


• Spam- these are unwanted e-mails that have been sent to you without your permission for instance you have won the lottery come and collect your winnings never open delete straight away.
  
• Phishing- Is a fake website created by professional hackers that try to persuade you to give out your personal details such as your bank details, e-mail address and passwords.  



• Hackers- Is a professional person that attemps to hack into your computer system or network also can seek a weakness for any type of reasons such as profit, challenge or money involved.
  


• Trojan- Is a malware that can appear to be useful but can cause your security much damage in the process
  


• Malware- Is a malicious software that is created to infect your computer by hackers.
  


• Worm- Which is a virus that will affect your computer network and will destroy everything you have created or made for anyone.
  


• Unauthorised Access- Is something that means any kind of access without asking the user permission or the rightful owner first.
  


• Paedophiles- is someone that pretends to be your friend but then wants to know everything you do can be twenty or thirty years older and take advantage of you in an inapporiate way.
  

To prevent all these types of threats from damging your computer always install an anti virus software program which will help to build an encrypted file also remember to scan once a year. Because if you do not have this then you can be infected or affected by any of these and maybe have to buy a new computer which will cost you more money with this it is less cost effective.   So just think of the next time you use your computer because you never know when one of these can creep up and damage everything you have created always install anti virus software to keep your computer secure even use a firewall and spyware program. The best ones can be Norton, AVG, Malwarebytes or even Panda antivirus these such programs can help you to keep everything you download or save safe and secure without no one able to use this for themselves.