I agree that technology can affect the interpersonal skills developed when people spend quality time together in different scenarios. First and foremost, as demonstrated in the YouTube video The Lonely Experience: “I forgot my Smartphone” displaying the lonely effects of being in the presence of others yet alone. I myself have been in a particular situation not having my smart phone, though I was surrounded by friends, being as if I were not in the room. I was left feeling as though I were in an…
Children should have more lessons in school exposing them to the dangers of the Internet. They should be taught not to download images from someone they don't know as they could be explicit. They should be encouraged to choose a screen name that could be used by either gender, this will make it harder for them to be targeted. They should…
(Phishing.) In the recent article, the Federal Bureau of Investigation described a real scenario where hackers sent phishing emails to the employees of RSA Security, LLC. (Internet Social Networking Risks) Once the employees opened the infected email, a malware was launched. The malware downloaded the company’s information, which allowed the hackers to defeat the company’s security program. This caused multiple defense contractors’…
Money laundering, tax evasion, and other illegal financial activities trace back to the bit-coins. These circumstances have damaged both the market system and business. Bit-coins are a kind of cyber money; many people would consider cyber money is always useful and not harmful since we sometimes purchase products via Amazon or Apple’s gift cards. However, there is the most important factor differentiating the bit-coins and cyber money; government regulation, it determines a limitation of using…
Can technology ruin happiness? People today regularly use their mobile devices to communicate with friends, but they do not take advantage of the chance to talk in person with those who are around them. As a result, using technical devices can make people isolated from the real world. Quality of life is influenced by the extent to which a person is happy, safe, and healthy. Technology has had a larger influence on human life and society overall than it used to a few decades ago. Although…
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Country: United States Website: www.akamai.com Building up AKAMAI Technologies: With a wide variety of internet users throughout the globe, it becomes a challenging task for the internet providers to provide speedy service for the optimum web performance. The company that aimed at the new ways of delivering internet content to its users that came into existence in the year 1998 was Akamai technologies. The building process of this company took place in…
advanced everyday. My generation has many rights, freedoms, and so on and so forth. Most of them don’t even know what it’s like to be without them. Technology has taken over our generation, the thought of never having Google would devastate many people. Internet isn't available in some regions. In other countries, they have to entertain themselves by going outside and playing or doing work. America has many opportunities that some other countries could only dream of. America has many…
people through words alone, only connecting through what we say through the screen to the other being far away. I have been to parties, gone on adventures, and even sat and watched movies with these people all thanks to our bond created over the Internet. This amazing invention has allowed complete strangers to contact each other and form relationships that could never have happened a generation…
Application / Files sharing between computers Windows Homegroup Windows home networking has been extremely complicated to configure in the past, but Homegroup is easy to set up. Just create a Homegroup from the Homegroup option within Windows Explorer (File Explorer on Windows 8) and you’ll get a password which enables you to access fromyour nearby computers and they can join your Homegroup. The other members of the Homegroup will now have access to your shared files when they log ON to the…
Do people prefer to watch news with bias? One article of Greg Beato’s entitled "The Spin We Love to Hate" has seemed to present the argument that our media is biased, even though the majority of people prefer news be non-biased. Beato started off his article with a statistic that shows that 67 percent of people prefer that their news was non-biased, which he ironically states that the top news reporters have been doing the exact opposite. The author will go on to present a few examples of…