The social Impacts of the Use of IT

Social impactsThe social impacts of the use of IT are that originally IT gave us the freedom of being able to find out stuff from history and to be able to create different social networking accounts just to allow us to keep in touch with friends but now these very same accounts have taken over our lives as many of us spend all of our time indoors on our laptops and phones instead of getting out and about and meeting up with friends in public being able to talk and have a good time.

Economical impacts
The Economical impacts of IT are that with many jobs in IT now you have to have a decent knowledge of how to use a computer and how to use certain software to allow you to be able to create the items that the job requires. The effect this has is that if some people cannot access a PC at home then they cannot have the required knowledge they need which means that they will miss out on getting the job as someone else with the knowledge will have gotten it.

Legal impacts
The legal impacts of using IT are that with items like images and videos that are uploaded on the internet that many people cannot use these images as they have be copyrighted meaning that if you use them you could face being fined by the owner. Also with students using computers for their work they are copying and pasting information of the internet but the problem with this is that it is plagiarism and this is classed as fraud and can lead to the offender being fined and getting into a lot of trouble.

Ethical impactsThe ethical impacts of using IT are that with everyone having a PC and with nearly everyone using social networking sites their private information such as their phone number and email address can be found by anyone and this can lead to that person being bullied by the hacker/troll and this usually has very serious consequences as quite a few people how are cyber bullied end up committing suicide as they think that no-one is interested in what they are saying or that adults are not listening to them.

Unequal accessThe issues with this are that only certain people in certain countries can access certain things like Facebook. one of the problems this causes is that it is unfair as they are missing out on the enjoyment of social networks and are also unable to access a PC meaning that they cannot do things like search for jobs and find out information meaning they are uniformed which means that they cannot do things that other people can like get better jobs as they don't know enough about the job to allow them to get the job.