Introduction

Welcome to my blog.

ICT has a big impact on today’s world; it is used in everyday life and used by nearly everybody in most jobs. In the upcoming months, I am going to blog about everything to do with ICT and how it is used.

 ICT is used in nearly every business in the world, in 2010, the amount of people that had access to the internet and used it rose by 30% from 2000, the amount of people that had mobile cellular telephone subscriptions rose by 78% from 2000, this is a great example of how ICT has a big impact on the world today.

The aspects of ICT that people use the most is email. The three most popular email servers are Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail and Gmail with approximately 818 million accounts over the three servers, with Hotmail being the most popular of the three with 355 million alone. Some organisations have their own private email server that is just used for the employees; this is one of the things that prove that ICT is having a big impact. I am a user of email and use both Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail and both are very easy to use and allows you to chat instantly to people who are also online at that time.

Social networking is one of the major ICT uses, with over 60 million Bebo users, 200 million Twitter users and 500 million active users on Facebook.

Physical shopping is becoming a thing of the past; nearly every retail shop now has an online shop that is gradually becoming more prominent. You can now do your weekly shopping on the internet and get it delivered direct to your door without moving a muscle. You can buy a whole new outfit on the internet, sometimes for a discounted price, and get it delivered the next day. £26billion worth of clothes were sold online, representing 13% of the domestic market.

Businesses now use ICT in everyday work, for staff lists, wage slips, business contacts, nearly everything that would have been stored in file cabinets 10 years ago is now stored on a computer hard drive. ICT is also great for calculating things like wage slips, keeping a profit/loss document and making a website for their company.

There are also websites such as Youtube!, that allows users to upload videos and share with the rest of the Youtube! community, sites such as Flixr that allows users to upload photos to share with the rest of the Flixr community.