ICT´s Disadvantages

The ICT´s disadvantages could be:

• Lack of Security/Privacy

Though IT (Information Technology) may have changed our lifestyle and is now more convenient for lost of people, it also brought along privacy and security issues. From email hacking, phone signal interception etc. people are worried that personal information may become public knowledge. IT keeps changing almost every day which means that everyone must be up to date in IT changes to secure their jobs. There are also risk factors with the systems, computer viruses, malware, spam, Trojans etc.

• Unemployment

While IT may have streamlined the business process, it has created job redundancies and subcontracting. Using the computers instead of human resources, employers save huge amounts of money by employing computers or IT solutions, but employees are losing their jobs as not needed anymore.

• Social media

The network pages are open to everyone including teenagers and young children, which can affect their mental and physical health by watching and playing violent games. They became addicted to the phones, iPod, gaming consoles, forgetting about outside activities and communication in the society, not to mention social life.

• Cyber bulling

It is so easy now to bully and threaten others in social network pages that this has become much easier for internet users all over the world to use this tools to do so. They don't realize what the consequences are to those reading/hearing unpleasant comments. In the recent past there have been so many investigation cases regarding cyber bullying with lethal consequences.

• Reliance on technology

People don't bother to read, calculate or write without computers anymore, since they have been accommodated and got used to a machine doing it for them. at the same time losing abilities of hand writing (why write if can use spell-checker), calculate without calculator even for minor addition, reading books (why read if there so much information in internet).