Communication:
Communication has changed as people are now more likely to
use social networking sites, such as Facebook or Twitter, rather than calling
someone up or going to see them face to face. This means people are getting
less social contact as they aren’t meeting people anymore; they are typing
messages to them over the internet. This also means that people aren’t leaving
the house as they would rather stay indoors, which means people will become
lazy and unhealthy if they do not receive their exercise they need. Finally,
people may become anti-social due to less contact with people on a daily basis.
This could cause lifelong problems is they don’t get enough social contact with
people. Some people may get addicted to communication through social network
sites, and stop all contact with the rest of the world unless it is via the
internet. This can be dangerous and cause harm to the person. Although some
people would benefit from social networking sites. Autistic people would find
it extremely difficult to talk to people face to face, but over, for example
Facebook or Twitter, it allows them to talk to people.
Secondly, communication has changed due to mobile phones
being used to keep in touch with everyone. Now, people usually text people from
their mobiles rather than meeting the person up, this can mean people get less
social contact as they use their phone rather than having to meet with the
person face to face. This also means that the person could become unhealthy
(overweight) because they are using their mobile and not getting the exercise
they need. People also use mobile phones to ring people instead of meeting with
them, which can also cause people to become overweight and unhealthy. Because
phones are now able to access the internet, this means social networks are now
available on them too. Due to this, there is no need to meet with people to
tell them what you have been doing, or to show them pictures you may have taken
as you could post them over social networking sites, or use the messaging to
send the pictures to your friends. This can also cause people to become more
unsociable because they don’t meet with people anymore to tell them news, it is
all done over the internet or messaging and phone calls. Also, despite the negative
effects on people’s health and social contact, mobile phones creates jobs as
people must be employed to either make the phones/ put them together or to
ensure the machines are working correctly. Therefore, the big demand for
mobiles mean more jobs are created, which has a positive effect on the
country’s redundancy.
Finally, E-mails are used rather than writing letters to
people. This means people don’t use old methods of keeping in touch. If people
aren’t sending letters and using the mail services, postman jobs will suffer
and could result in great unemployment. This would be a big negative effect as
there is a lot of redundancy already. However, writing emails is more
environmentally friendly as it doesn’t use paper, unlike letters, which
therefore saves trees. But because of letters not being as commonly used,
peoples jobs are at risk, such as the lumberjacks who cut the trees down and
the people who work for the transportation of the trees to where they are to be
made into paper.
Employment:
ICT could cause an increase in jobs in places where the
demand for ICT products increase. Also, as mobile phones gadgets seem to be
becoming more and more advanced, people will always have to be thinking up
different ideas and new ideas to make their product better than the rest and to
stand out from the others on the market. Also, as ICT expands, there is more
for people to learn about, so there will be more ICT jobs for teachers in
schools, colleges and university. Finally, ICT can create jobs as if there are
a lot of ICT products on the market, the shop owners and employees of the shop will
have jobs.
However, ICT could have a decrease in jobs, for example, the
postman if letters are not sent anymore. This would also mean that jobs in
places such as the post sorting stations, would decrease if not as many letters
are sent. Also, in supermarkets, there are self-service checkouts, this means
that the supermarket owners will not employ as many people to work on the
checkout, especially on a morning where before the self-service checkouts were
installed, 4-5 people would have to be employed, but now only about 1-2 people
are employed as people are able to pay for their shopping with little input
needed from the shop owners and workers.
The
effect of ICT on our lives:
ICT has had both positive and negative effects on our lives.
ICT creates jobs for people, such as people to repair computers, people to
design webpages etc. However, ICT can also take peoples jobs away, because the
more traditional ways of communication are not used as much anymore, this
causes people to become redundant, i.e. not as many postmen will be needed.
ICT has mostly negative effects on our social lives, as it
means people have less contact, and don’t learn the skills they need to work
with other people. However, for some people, ICT has a massively positive
effect on some people’s lives, for example, if you have autism, you will find
it easier to communicate with people if it isn’t face-to-face, so ICT could be
the only way you are able to talk to others.
If you would like further information on the topic:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks3/ict/history_impact_ict/impact_ict_society/revision/8/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks3/ict/history_impact_ict/
If you would like further information on the topic:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks3/ict/history_impact_ict/impact_ict_society/revision/8/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks3/ict/history_impact_ict/
