Sunday, February 7, 2016

Social Impacts of Advances in Communications Technology

Technology these days has revolutionized the world of communication. The world is switching to the different era of modification because of the vastly growing and the wider use of the tech products. Technology now allows people the opportunity to communicate from opposite ends of the globe. Generally, communication and technology encompasses a broad range of mediums, from the internet to radio to television to wireless signal providers.

Social networking site’s seems to be a great place for utilizing the time for people these days. The newly emerging concepts and thoughts are being combined together for the general public’s benefit in the field of communication. These days people of different gender, geography and ethnicity from all over the globe is connected via the internet for communication among their relatives and loved ones. Using these social media and service’s was fairly complex for the people who are far from the world of inner tech as it involved html coding and designing custom pages. Eventually, developments in the field of communications and technology gave birth to the recent sophisticated social networking sites like that of Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, Google+, and LinkedIn etc. Most of the business organizations and public, use the social networking sites for the advertisement of their goods and products and communicating with their loved ones. Social networking sites as well as e-commerce websites has been a great place for businessman to display their goods and generate income.

Social impacts of the communication technology or social networking are excessive. Facebook has about 864 million daily users on average as of September 2014 data and so does some other top level social networking sites (Facebook team, 2014). The social networking sites as well as electronic device has made the life style of people a lot easier. People of age groups from 10 has been using and taking the advantages of communication technology these days. Despite of general communication, social networking sites like that of Facebook and twitter are being excessively used for scientific communities and research oriented organizations to spread the latest developments in science and technology. Parents and children, teachers and students, staffs and managers are using these sites as a tool to communicate. Many different opportunities for employment also arise and can be found via the internet.

As everything have pros and cons, every single electronic device, websites and servers can be hacked. The priority for the security to the communication and technology should not be neglected. Unprecedented advances in computing, robotics, artificial intelligence hold the potential to radically transform our world for the better and create mass abundance for all. Just because of the rapid development in communications and technology, the public in this world has changed their mind-set for the future and has skilfully developed the way of making use of the resources through the technology today.