Impact of IT on Ethical

Think about recent “leaks” of information via Twitter/facebook – how do they affect society?

One of the main reasons of people connecting to a social network website like Twitter is because they want to know information where they can’t find it nowhere else. There are many celebrities registered within the website, some of them might also use slang and inappropriate language and they get followed by millions of people. People do that because they want to know more about the person. This affects the society because people get obsessed to the profile page and stay tuned everyday.

Good point:

·         People will know more things about anything thanks to social websites

Bad Point:

·         It is not sure whether the information leaked is true or not

·         Important and famous people must be careful of what they say or otherwise it will be spread all over the web

  

Do we always know when people are tracking our activities on the web?

People surf the internet and do many things like, updating their statuses, buying products, viewing videos etc.

Do we always know when people view what to do? The answer is no. There are many examples to show the evidence of why sometimes we may not know if someone is viewing our information :

·         In social network websites like Facebook, you share statuses, pictures, videos and more. What some people don’t know is that not only the people in your friends list can view what you do, but also people that don’t really know you.

·         Websites like Amazon, once you’ve registered, they are allowed to see what you buy, and once you buy a products, they make you suggestions on products you might be interested in.

·         The same thing works with Youtube. Once registered, they are allowed to see what you upload and watch, and have also the right of deleting one of your videos in case they are not following the website’s rules.

Good Points:

• People and companies will get to know you more, including your interests and where you live
• It will prevent people from posting explicit contents
• Some website may be able to track bad actions such as downloading illegal content

      Bad Points:

• Some websites like Facebook do record information of your geographic location, and it is dangerous because all your virtual friends will get to know where you are whenever you post on your profile, ruining your privacy.
• Sometimes people's posts may be read by anonymous people, which it's quite dangerous

Is it fair that some older people or young children can’t afford access to the internet and so miss out on vital services?

It is important that people get access to the internet nowadays, because it gives out opportunities for people of any age. There are a few good and bad points of why internet may affects those people who can’t afford the access of internet.

Good Points:

·         Young children will be not influenced by pornographic websites, because the internet is not protected at all, and young children are very vulnerable

·         People do not get obsessed with the Internet

·         Watch news

Bad Points:

·         Less opportunity because most of job applications are based online

·         Young people will not be able to research on their studies
·         If older people would have owned a PC including the knowledge of using it, it would have been easy to find any kind of information
·         Not being able to take advantage of online shopping including selling 

We all know that most of older people do not know how to use effectively computer machines, as they are used to the practical work. Older people will be missing out lot of opportunities because the world wide internet provides things for everyone.
Nowadays information is being delivered on the Internet really quick, and it would be very useful for older people  to take advantage of this, because nowadays everything is written online and newspaper deliverys are becoming less and do not contain lot of information. Older people would be able to get even more information compared to magazines and newspaper through leaks and reveal of information that is made on the Internet, and it would have been a big advantage for them.