The Benefits
and Risks of Social Technologies:
• Individual-
Social technologies acts as a worldwide connectivity between people. If one simply wants to find someone, one can
search for that person online and interact with whoever. Even if one wants to
simply just find information about anything, one can just search for it. The
risk that an individual can face concerning social technologies is, fraud or
identity theft. A person’s details
online, can be used to put one at risk.
• Corporate-
Social technologies can be real-time information sharing in a workplace, most
business now use the media to get messages across to their target
audiences. As well as sending and
receiving messages to everyone involved in the business concerning work affairs
in the workplace. The risk a business can face concerning social technologies,
is that it can be costly, as most people in the workplace can be spending more
time using the work’s internet for personal use, thus increasing the bill.
•
Communities- Communities can have social media groups, and act as life lines
for any of their members. The risk
communities can face are conflict of interest, thus making exposing each other
online. (Advantages and Disadvantages of social networking, n.d)
No comments:
Post a Comment