The effect of IT on society

1. The effect of IT on society By BartoszWazny

2. Social Networking • Communicating with friends is now easier than ever, for example on Facebook you can connect with all your friends and chat to them very easily and instantly.

3. Advantages and Disadvantages of social networking

4. Mobile Phones • Mobile phones can do many things including online banking, addictive games and access to most social networking sites. • Nearly everyone in the UK owns a mobile phone of some sort and they are becoming more and more popular as newer versions are constantly getting released.

5. Advantages and Disadvantages of Mobile Phones

6. E Commerce • Electronic commerce is the buying and selling of products or services over electronic systems such as the Internet and other computer networks. Electronic commerce draws on such technologies as electronic funds transfer, supply chain management, Internet marketingetc. Modern electronic commerce typically uses the World Wide Web at least at one point in the transaction's life-cycle, although it may encompass a wider range of technologies such as e-mail, mobile devices and telephones as well.

7. Advantages and Disadvantages of E Commerce

8. Online banking • Banking is now very easy. You can do pretty much everything online like checking your balance online or sending money to someone or even paying your bills online!

9. Advantages and Disadvantages of Online Banking

10. Threats of IT • With everything that ICT can do, there are quite a lot of threats such as- Viruses Spyware Malware Phishing Cyber Bullying

11. How to prevent viruses, spyware and malware • You can prevent threats of IT quite easily by simply using an anti virus such as Norton or there are free ones like AVG you can use too.

12. How to prevent phishing • To prevent phishing you can look at many things that give it away For example- Look at the email address. If it has lots of numbers in it then it is probably fake. Look for spelling mistakes. A real email should be written formally and without any mistakes. Check if the email applies to you directly. Make sure it says your full name and if its from a bank make sure its your bank.

13. How to prevent cyber bullying • Don't listen to the bullies. • If you are actually upset then talk to a teacher or parents and they should help you and if needed police might be informed.

14. E-mail • You can make an email on Gmail.com by clicking ‘Sign Up now’. On an email you can send and receive emails from family and friends. • Emails are really easy to send and read and are important because you can use them in a business to share information with your co-workers.

15. Unit 1Task 1- Email user guideBartoszWazny

16. Signing up STEP 1 – Create an account. Website www.gmail.com

17. STEP 2 – Fill out your details and READ the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. STEP 3 – Verify your account by entering the verification code sent to you through your phone.

18. Email Setup Complete! STEP 4 – Set up is complete! Now go and send Emails and stuff.

19. You can use your Email to see and receiving Emails from other people. It is really straight forward and you will get the hang of it in no time! You can click on it and read it and then reply to it.

20. You can add contacts by clicking on GMAIL -> CONTACTS -> NEW CONTACT and then enter the name of the contact you wish to add.

21. Sending an Email This is where you can see your added friends or family. Click here to begin typing your email message. This is where you can check your received mail.

22. How to send This is where you enter the name of the person you wish to send an email to. This is where you enter the subject of the message. For example : Greetings Thomas! This is where you can type the message you would like to send. There are many useful features like Check Spelling which automatically correct your mistakes When you have finished all these steps click Send!

23. Reading an Email Firstly, make sure you are in your inbox. Then, click on the message you wish to read Now you can read it!