Explain the social impacts of the use of IT.

Social Social networking has made the world Bigger and easier to communicate with others. It allows friends, family members, business colleagues, and often strangers to share information. Social IT done right gives IT organizations the power to more efficiently help people obtain fast and accurate service and knowledge. Without your mobile phones ipod, ipad, computer, laptop you’ll be stuck in middle of socialising eg. Facebook, twitter etc…

Facebook Advantage- · Allows user search for new and old friends Accessible to chosen universities having a high level of security · Makes it less awkward when communicating with strangers or people you are not familiar with · Love attraction - can be used as a dating service system · Makes it easier to join groups having similar likes and dislikes · Allows members to check students who are taking the same class, living within the same area, or coming from the same academy Disadvantage- · Overcrowding · Weakening long distance relationship · Unsupported by physical adjacency · Contributes wide-range procrastination · Stalking is possible · Acquaintances be labelled as friends

Twitter Advantage- · You can follow your favourite celebrities · You can see what celebs gossip about and celeb banter · You can follow your old and new friends and your family · Communicating with celebrities, Politicians, Musicians Etc… · Love attraction · All famous people are verified Disadvantage- · Arguments · Bad for famous people if they have arguments because of what the media can do · Getting followed by strangers, paedophiles · fake celebrity's account · Anyone can see your personal information

Social There are many ways of interacting with people now and there are many apps and websites and electronic devices for it. Its not like how it use to be like back In the days where you had to go knock on your friends doors and call for them, now you can text send pictures, voice recording, videos, Etc.. For example you can use WhatsApp the mobile phone app where it requires your number and an internet connection to allow you to send messages, images, video, voice recording and other files. People download apps for many reason but WhatsApp is most popular because it is free and you can check whether your friend is online or not. Skype is most common and known for video calling, You can call anywhere anytime but you will need a good internet connection Mobile phone isn't the device you can interact with there are many devices such as Xbox, PlayStation, IPod, Smart watch, IPad, computers,laptop etc.. They are using other devices to interact with other people like example you can now use a game console to talk to your friends because many young people own a game console and they want to socialise at the same time so they put the two ideas together and the game consoles are making good money out of it and bring out why their product is good

Economic Economic on social website are very useful and easier in many ways. Instead of purchasing in person and you can purchase products online. It is easy, safe and fast. Some require to advertise on social websites and meet in person and pay in person. The disadvantage is that meeting the seller could be dodgy and may give you a broken Item which you will want to return but they may not accept the return and wont refund it.

Threat Facebook currently has 845 million active users worldwide, 483 million of whom access the site daily. Cybercriminals are looking to take advantage of this site’s considerable user base have made Facebook a nest of socially Engineered attacks. The Threats: Socially engineered attack lure you with fraud lent news, promo’s, as well as fake apps etc.. Personalised messages spoofing your friends or popular celebrities tempt you into clicking Dodgy links. Fake users send you a friend a request to reserve a place in your contacts list. Twitter’s 300-million user big popularity stems from the fact that it allows everyone to send and read updates, aka tweets in 140 characters or even less. The bite-sized form of networking Twitter allows made catching up with friends, relative or even celebrities that simple and easy! The Threats: Fake apps that push your account to send out tweets that contain shortened links, which lead to system infection on its own