Advantage, Disadvantage and Threats of Online Shopping

Advantage

·         Convenient the shop will always be open 24hours.

·         More chance of your size because if you go into a shop they might not have your size in stock but if you go online there is a wider range of choice.

·         Most of the time the internet is cheaper.

·         People with kids don’t have to deal with the hassle of dragging them around stores.

·         When you shop online you don’t have to experience parking issues and use petrol to visit shops.

Disadvantage

·         Don’t get to feel the quality of the material.

·         Don’t get any help with looking for clothes etc.

·         Lack of Social Networking movement during the day if you’re buying stuff online.

·         Reduces the amount of customer services staff and in turn increases un employment

Threats

·         Scammed

·         People taking your details and forwarding them

·         Item may not arrive.

·         The website could be fake or they could be selling brand items as the real thing you set the item you may have paid a lot of money for a fake item.

Digital Divide

Digital Divide is the gap of technology between the 3^rd world countries and countries coming saturated with technology. It can also be classed between the people who can afford technology and the ones who can’t afford technology. Digital divide stops 3^rd world countries and the people who may not be able to afford the price of technology from having the experience that most people take for granted.
People who live with the digital divide are at a disadvantage because it reduces their possibilities of applying for jobs, being educated and improving their general knowledge.
However may would say they are at an advantage because they live in a more sociable manner depending solely on friends, neighbours and family for communication and for the exchange of information and face to face company.
 

Advantages, Disadvantages and Threats of Gaming

Advantage

·         Play with friends all over the world.

·         Meet random people from different countries.

·         Learn new skills and educate yourself i.e. keyboard typing games.

·         If lonely or depressed allows a person to experience fun.

Disadvantage

·         Addictive some people play games for hours upon hours.

·         Children can access games over their age because parents are not being strict enough.

·         Lack of physical exercise sitting in front of a TV all day.

·         Can affect your day to day lifestyle sitting up all night gaming and sleeping in for your job or college.

Threats

·         Cyber bullying people threatening each others.

·         Hacking/Cheating people can hack your account and steal your details.

·         People could say they will give you something for a certain price and just take your money.

·         Becoming isolated and loosing the confidence to socially interact with people.

Advantages, Disadvantages and Threats of Jobs

Advantage

·         Can work from anywhere.

·         Easily change your work if mistakes occur.

·         Can speak to people on the go.

·         Companies no longer require staff to be in the same building or same country.

·         Technology has made the world a smaller place especially in the workforce, meeting being held through phone/video conferences etc.

·         Cost of travel expenses have been reduced greatly because of the exchange of information that can take place using modern technologies.

Disadvantage

·         No face to face communication so no tone in voice, or personal interaction.

·         Companies can be based in a western would location and employ cheap labour in poorer countries.

·         Companies often lack consideration of the soft skills than can enhance the company if clients are met face to face.

·         Networking skills are reduced and their is no “face to company” – personal exchanges between staff members can be cold and distant.

Threat

·         Cause of loneliness because there is no one else in the environment you are working in.

·         No feedback from the work you do.

·         The company couldn’t properly help you if you got stuck on the work.

·         Staff may not perform to their full potential because they spend time during their working hours surfing the internet.

·         Company information/in house knowledge can be leaked or hacked into, causing clients etc to loose trust in the company.

Advantage, Disadvantage and Threats of social networking

Advantage

·         With social networking you can talk to others whenever you want.

·         You can talk to old friends to find out what’s happening if they were travelling etc.

·         You can access your social networking account wherever you are.

·         You can have an instant response communication to loved ones around the world.

·         You can post pictures, advertise events or business.

Disadvantage

·         Don’t talk to the actual person face to face so there is no tone of voice.

·         Time consuming wastes a lot of time.

·         No physical exercise because you are always sitting in front of a computer.

·         Many people becoming addicted to such sites and this can affect their personal life i.e. relationships, work or studies.

Threats

·         You can get bullied from random people adding you to your contacts.

·         People can keep messaging you and they could just keep following your account.

·         People could hack your account and then pretend to be you.

·         People could pretend to be the same age as you and actually be older.

Advantage, Disadvantage and Threats of online banking

In this post I will be discussing the advantage, disadvantage and threats of online banking and these are:

Advantage

·         You can access your online bank account from anywhere in the world as long as you have internet access.

·         If you want to transfer money quickly to another account you can go online instead of going down to withdraw money and lodging it into the other account.

·         Check your balance without leaving your home.

·         Apply for a loan online.

·         No queues.

·         Don’t have to worry about working hours because the bank is open online 24/7

·         Don’t have to rush out on your lunch to go to the bank before it closes.

Disadvantage

·         If you deposit money in your back account it may be slow to respond that you have placed money in your account.

·         Any problems can’t talk to people voice to voice to explain what the problem is properly.

·         Server could crash and this means you wouldn't be able to access your bank account when you need to.

·         Using online banking is not always secure.

Threats

·         People can steal your personal details if someone planted a virus on your computer they may copy your personal details.

·         You could get scammed by people sending you emails and ask for your details and use them whenever.

·         If you leave it on some random person could go onto your online banking and transfer money to another bank account without you knowing. 

Advantages, Disadvantages and Threats of Email

In this post I will discuss the social impacts of ICT you about the advantages, disadvantages and threats of email.

Advantage

• Emails are always instantly sent and received. 
• Email allows people to communicate across the world.
• You can add document attachment and photos.
• Email is free for everyone to use and anyone any age can create a email account.
• Email is very simply used and any age can pick it up easily.

Disadvantage

• Spam this is a problem every single person has.
• People in the same company may never meet because they only communicate through email this removes the person side of exchanging information with other colleague’s.
•  Email can often be misunderstood.
• Not properly talking to people face to face so it's a different experience.
• Pressure to reply it's always just saying that you have one unread email.
• Spam this is a problem every single person has.

Threat

•  Viruses’ most common threat in emails.
•  Identify threat people stealing others peoples details.
•  No more personal touch to communication i.e. letters etc.