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Social impact of IT on family and friends- The social impact of IT on family and friends has its good points but also its bad points. IT has changed the way that we communicate with each other as it is. Instead of having to meet up now we can simply send a text and receive a response in the same amount of time and this has become the normal as it is more efficient for daily life. The good impacts that It has had on family and friends is that it has allowed us to get to know more people from different places which brings us more together as a community across the world. This is also a good thing as family who live far from each other are enabled to speak and this isn’t only over voice chats but also video chat so you can see each other and it feels like a physical experience. It has also made things like researching much more easy, so we don’t have to go to others with our problems instead we can just look it up on the internet.

The negative impact that IT has on family and friends in my opinion is that it is part of an addiction. Nowadays, instead of spending time with each other friends and families are communicating through screens instead of talking in person even when they are together. All the free time is taken up using computer and this then begins to affect their social skills and makes them dependant on a machine. They also increase the risk for people to start lacking basic skills e.g. reading or writing as the computer is what they are used to. '''

Social impact of IT on the economy-''' The social impacts of IT on the economy has good points but also its bad points. IT in the economy has made us look at everything in a different way. IT benefits the economy in many ways. It benefits in the growth of the economy, investment, efficiency, productivity, trade and finally employment. It benefits in growth as it boosts economic output which makes more room for employment and this allows larger growth strategies, especially because of the changes in trade. It benefits investment as it works amazingly on system development cost, risks, and timescale effects, this then leads to the reduction of the lack of equality of information especially in banking and finance. It benefits efficiency as it enables you to detect more efficient goods and services quickly. It improves the quality of monitoring and decision making by being flexible and external. It benefits productivity as it speeds it up and adds more value to certain products and increases labour productivity, this happens to be more in skilled workers after a period of training and it doubles the contribution per worker. Finally, it benefits employment as ICT producing enables better paid ICT related jobs. It also has a better impact on wages of the workers that are highly skilled which increases efficiency and transparency of labour markets and therefore allows better allocation of workers and their specific skills. It also benefits as it can trigger creation of new kinds of jobs and improve social development.

The negatives of the social impact of IT on the economy is the effect that its having on businesses. Small businesses are at risk of being forgotten as people prefer to shop online which makes the businesses close done as they are losing money and so can’t afford to stay open. Aswell, as creating new jobs it can cause people to lose them also as there will no longer be a need for lots of people to be on hand when there are bigger and better things e.g. computers doing all the work for them.

Social impact of IT on Local and Global access- The good part of the social impact of IT on local and global access is that if you do have access to the internet you are able to access different forms of media and data from different places whenever you want. In addition with this access you can talk to family members who are long distance and get a response immediately, especially if it’s through video chatting. For example, if a baby was born instead of waiting weeks for a picture you can receive one through email straight away and give a response in the same amount of time. The negative side of the social impact of IT on local and global access is that people in less developed countries wouldn’t be able to access the internet as well as developed countries or at all for that matter. This means they won’t know what is going on around the world and have less communication worldwide. Along with this they won’t be able to research, see data or even store data on a reliable system instead they would either have to memorise it or write it on a piece of paper. In addition to this they won’t be able to contact family or even friends and be shut out completely from everyone else. They may also lack basic skills when using a computer or the internet and lack education.

Social impact of IT on Legislation- Legislation in short are just laws/ the process of making laws. The social impact that IT has had on legislation contains a positive side yet there are a few things that aren’t so good. The positive impact that IT has had on legislation is that since it came into place acts were enforced/ laws were developed or amended to be up to date with computers. The computer misuse act came into place and this was a good thing as this made sure that people could not have access to computer material that is not there and it also put a stop unauthorized modification of computer material. The next act that came into place was the data protection act. This was a good thing as it protected peoples information and also gave them rights if they had any stored about them. The final act I will name that came out was the copyright act. This was a good thing as it made sure that people didn’t get their work stolen and that they were credited as the rightful owners whether it was music, documents or even artwork. Health and safety was another good thing that came out of legislation as it made sure that people who worked with computer were equipped with safe equipment and worked in a safe working environment.

The negative side of the social impact that IT has had on legislation is that a lot of media, including movies to music are much easier to access online and because of this it has led to copyright which means it has more of a chance and is easier to steal. It also takes some material and shares it on the web for free. In addition, another negative part to this is that plagiarism has become much more common and it mostly affects places like schools or colleges as students may pass off content that they got from somewhere else as their own. In addition, nearly every single part of our lives are recorded on computers so whether we like it or not we are always involved in IT, we have medical records to who we call or text , this makes personal privacy an issue as it is just not there and then goes on to break the data protection act which id s legislation that govern the protection of personal info.