SANTOS, ANGELINA P.

BSBA-IM-2C

Uses of ICT in our Daily Lives

ICT (Information and Communications Technology) has a huge effect in my life as a

student. It helped me to understand on how to use technology responsibly and how to
use it to help others. Having an access to these communication technologies is simply a
privileges and it must not abused and used to harm others. Instead, these technologies
should be used for common good of other people. Using computers, emails and social
media should help me to communicate and connect with other people in the fastest and
easiest way. Also, using the internet and search engines and websites should help me
obtain information and knowledge that could help me in my research and school papers.
Instead of using these technologies to harm others (like cyberbullying etc.), I must use
this to help others by sharing good news and positive and real information.  

Lastly, ICT helped me to realize how important school and knowledge is. Especially now
that we are in a new normal, and travels are still limited, I can still go to my studies by
using technologies and computer even I am at home. I am grateful of these
technologies and I promise to use them to cause good.

Impacts of ICT in the society

The impact of ICT on society is great. As more and more people begin to work from
home, or jobs become de-skilled, computer based, the social implications are going to
be very serious. The most important issue is increased leisure time, and as more work
is done in less time, the result should mean more leisure time. In some rare cases this
does happen. Take for example small businesses, or larger teleworker companies
where people are allowed to work from home. Leisure time does not always increase,
the managers and the companies require the workers the same amount of time spent
on the job, so people should become more productive and a lot more work will be done.
A bonus of this would be that as leisure time increases, the leisure industry will grow,
and more people would use the leisure time, which would improve the workers morale.
Another effect of ICT on the society is the introduction of home shopping over the
Internet, this aspect could possibly result in people never leaving their homes, doing
everything from home, possibly resulting in house bound individuals who could not
leave their houses even if they wanted to. Continuing on this vein, talking about working
at home, the amount of required offices may be reduced. This would both result in fewer
buildings in the city centre and reduce traffic pollution from people who are no longer
required to commute to work. There are definite upsides to home shopping however,
people who cannot currently leave their houses, the physically disabled people or
people who are too busy to do anything to do shopping, who currently rely on other
people to do their shopping, near-free internet shopping could allow people to be more
independent and less reliant on other people. Returning to teleworkers and working
from home, people may feel that.