Laziness: Having all these methods of communicating has a tendency to make people lazy. They may no longer bother to talk face to face, instead they send an email to a work colleague only a few feet away. Some organisations have even introduced 'email free days' to encourage people to actually talk to one another!
Family
members, each playing or working on their own computers may actually send Instant
Messages to each other in the same house rather than talk to one another.
Stories:
Distraction:
At home: With so much available to entertain
us, there is less need to actually sit 
around the dinner table and talk
to one another, so technology can have a negative effect on family relationships.
At school: text messaging during lessons are a distraction and so this has a bad effect on learning.
Stories:
Unfit people: Being able to communicate with colleagues from
a desk means that 
people
just don't walk around enough to keep fit. So eventually, having a growing
population of unfit people may impact on their health and the National Health
Service.
Crime:
Items such as Mobile phones are very expensive items and so they tend to encourage theft and other crimes.
Quote from the story below: "Flashing your mobile phone is just like flashing your wallet. "We are urging youngsters in the Borough to be discreet, particularly when using their phone in public.
Story:
Cards aid mobile phone security
CONCLUSION
As with most technologies, there is always a blend of good and bad effects on society. But for a technology to succeed, it must show an overall benefit for people. It is always a balance.
This web site has tried to show you the advantages and disadvantages that Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has brought to society.
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