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Impact of Social Media on Local Communities

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- The Effect of IT on the local high street.     IT has  impacted  shopping for better and for worse. People can order products across the world if needed, or just across the city. It gives a job opportunity to the people supplying the items, as well as to those who are delivering these items to other people , providing easier access to items that are needed.     H owever,  this results in Shop Owners not having enough money to pay the workers at the stores, meaning that they are unable to earn enough money to pay rent/bills for their housing and various other supplies like food and water.  Whilst this is  a bad thing , Shop Owners also need IT to see what products people want, allowing for  them to gain feedback from others.     - The Effect of IT on how local communities communicate with each other – Social Media Groups     IT allows for communities to communicate with each  other, allowing for news to be sprea...

The Impact of IT on Individuals

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Impact of IT on Individuals - How IT has changed the way we spend our leisure time.   With the recent developments in technology, many people own a device used for personal use, this has been apparent with the younger generation due to how easily accessible devices are nowadays.     For example, many people use computers to play online games to bring some sort of entertainment. Whilst this is quite the entertaining activity, it reduces the amount of people going outside to hang out with other people, resulting in less exercise from outside activities.     Another thing that IT changes is how we watch films. Everyone has watched at least one film, either on a DVD or from a streaming service such as Netflix. While these are useful due to local movie theatres costing £20+ just to go to a movie theatre, buy a ticket and sit down to watch a movie in a rather uncomfortable setting, it makes people less social due to growing accustomed to only watching DVDs or Movies ...