Social impacts of IT

We all know that our lives have changed a lot since the time that computers were introduced, nowadays almost everyone uses internet either for work or personal use but what exactly has changed?

Advantages

· We now live a faster, easier life, and we can do more interesting jobs.

· Work fewer hours and more leisure times as work is quicker.

· To keep up with other people we need to use IT.

· Many aspects of our modern life would simply be impossible without IT.

· New type of jobs are being created with the introduction of IT e.g. programming, network, managing etc. taking the place of jobs that were completely computerised.

· You can communicate and socialise much faster, almost immediately.

Disadvantages

· Jobs have been de-skilled.

· Life without IT is slower and less stressful.

· Computers can do a job more cheaply than a person, so people will be removed from the factory scene.

· The new jobs being created by the use of IT are only for highly skilled and qualified people.

· The people who did the boring repetitive jobs now done by computers no longer have a job.

· The storage of personal data held on computer has eroded people's privacy.