Moral, social and ethical issues
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Moral
Social
Moral, social and ethical issues
- Bulling- in chat rooms, by using e-mail, blogs and text messages on a mobile phone.
- Spreading rumours- it is very easy to spread rumours using the Internet and you only have to tell a few people in a chat room to make the rumour spread very quickly.
- Using e-mail to give someone bad news, which explaining to them face-to-face would have been better.
- Setting up websites, which contain incorrect information- people may rely on this information and use it becuase they think that it is correct.
- Gambling addiction- gambling can cause many social problems, such as overspending.
- Addiction to computer games- many people spend many hours on computer games, which thier social skills and schoolswork can suffer greatly in the process.
- Privacy issues- such as social networking sites, which all erode a user's privacy.
- Obesity- many activities in the past had involved some sort of physical exercise. not the use of internet for very long periods of time can be very unhealthy.
Ethical
- Sending spam- which if sent spam, you can end up wasting time trying to delete it.
- Plagiarism- using the internet to copy material without attributing ro referenceing the source of information.
- Using photo editing software to distort reality- by using photo software, you can no longer believe what you see.
- Using someone's internet connection without them knowing- this can result can slow the network down for legitimate users.