Blog safety

When you want to publish a blog and are worried about who can view it and who can’t, you can edit the privacy settings in the options menu, so that only friends can view your blogs. Also you need to be careful about what you transfer because some files may be infected or contain viruses so you will need to do a malware check on your files before you transfer them.

Potential threats in IT

Although there is lots of advantages to the computer world there are also major problems with it as well, for example ever since computers or the internet has been introduced there has been a new form of bullying called cyber bullying, which is when people send other people emails that upset the other person, although this form of bullying is minor and can be dealt with quickly it is still a growing problem. Also computer viruses can be a major problem in the IT world, because they spread and cause damage to computers, they can:

·       Delete files

·       Slow your computer down

·       Spread from one computer to another

·       Cause your computer to crash frequently

Cyber bullying can be helped by telling a parent, teacher or police etc. They will also believe you because you have the evidence, they can also easily find out where the email came from and the person doing it can be prosecuted.

Also the computer viruses can be countered by installing various anti malware software which protects your computer against viruses.

Why a Blog is an effective Communication channel

We chose blogs as our communication channel, because it is on the internet and everyone in the class can see it if they want to, if we used an email to do this we would have to email it to everyone else in the class and that would take up a lot of time, also blogs are unable to be edited by people who view them so there is no danger of people editing your work. Also you can make your blog pages look nicer such as adding a background or a theme to your blogs so that they look more appealing.