Computer games

Computer games are a extremely popular form of entertainment and are played by a wide age group. There are millions sold every year and they are popular due to the enjoyment they bring, with the factor of competition and excitment. I think it is fair to say that some computer games can encourage children to be more violent and also some people get high rate when playing some games. Fighting and shooting games are always going to demonstrate violence which is bound to have an affect. Some people are obsessed with the games and therefore isolate themselves from their friends and just concentrate on their computer games, when other use it as a reason to socalise, they use it as a common topic of conversation. Networked computer games, can have two affects, once again they can make you more social while they can also make you antisocial.

Pirated Entertainments

There are many advantages to paying a supplier such as apple for legal music downloads. It ensures you do not get into any trouble for having illegal downloads. Also, it know that you are actually recieving the official version of the song you actual want and it is certain to be good quality unlike pirated copies. The disadvantage of buying a pirate DVD from a market stall; is that is is bound to be poor quality and you are unable to take back to the stall and complain because it is your own fault for buying a pirate copy and the stall owner will not care and also once again you can easily get in trouble for buying pirated copies. Tne disadvantage of getting a pirated copy og the latest hollywood blockbuster before its UK release; is the copy is bound to be filmed from from a video recorder at the back of a cinema in a different country and will therefore be really wobbly and bad quality and may even have people walking in front the camera and will really not do any justice to the film and therefore people normally end up going to the cinema to watch it anyway. The disadvantage to visiting a illict music download site, is more often than not you do not actually download the song you intended to download, you can also get yourself in serious trouble and it is generally more hassel than it worth. The illict downloading sites discourage the funding of new talent because people would rather download the music illegal for free and take the risk of not getting the official song and maybe getting caught rather than paying the money for the real song and therefore artists are not getting the money that rightly deserve.

Original entertainment

With all the technology around now it has become apparently easier to create original entertainment so the statement, 'it has never been easier to publish original entertainment. ' I think it has become much easier to publish original entertainment in todays 'information age'. However, it is believed that it is now harder than ever to hear and see original entertainment. I agree with this to a ceratin degree, i think it is harder than before to find a good piece of original entertainment, however, it isn't impossible to find.

Valid Information

There isn't much that indicates the website www.about.com is relaiable and holds valid information. It does not have any signs of reliability and it is doubtful that it actually is. Also, the following website, http://www.dreamweaverstudios.com/moonbeam/moon.htm seems extremely unreliable at first sight. There is no indication of its validity and demonstrates that the information isn't a reliable source. These two sources as well as many others are unreliable websites that shouldn't be relied on to be a valid source and therefore i would not advice for use

Business Commmunications

Business' use e-mail, instant messaging, mobile phones and lots more on a regular basis. E-mail's are used a lot in the workplace in order to communicate internally and externally, e-mails have replaced the old fashioned way of communicating internally, memos. E-mails are a much more quicker and efficient way of getting a message to many people in the workplace and allows people to send the same message multiple. Also, business make a large amount of phone calls in a day from mobile phones and office phones, it is a quick way of communicating and a good way of ensuring a client or collgeaue has got the message you wanted them to have and a fast way of getting a response.

Other communcation services.

I use MSN messenger as a way of communcation for the social benefits, this allows me to talk to my friends at only the price of my broadband and i an able to talk for as long as i want and it is easy to have a full length normal conversation. I also use facebook, social network, this is a really good way of communcation and allows you to do so in a number of different ways; personal messages, e-mails, instant message or message posts. It is available for all to use and is fairly easy to navigate round. I also send e-mails to friends and family abroad, this is a quick and cheap way of communcating with people in other countries. I often use e-mails at college to, to e-mail my peers about work related things, sometimes in order to gain help or to help them.

When do you use mobile phones?

You use a mobile phone in order to contact people and to have a point of communcation in case of an emergency. People can use there mobile phones anyway as long as there is a strong enough signal reception. However, you are unable to use them in places such as hospitals as it interfers with medical equipment. It is easy to send text messages or dial calls anytime throughout the day or night and it is very easy to use the majority of the time. The major benefit of using a mobile phone is it is cheaper to communicate with people by sending text messages and it enables you to ring people whereever you are and once again it allows you to have an instant point of contact in an emergency and is veru useful on a day to day basis. Mobile phones aren't always easy to use however, quite often it is not easy to see what is the one screen and the buttons are too small and in certain places you are unable to get signal whiich is incredibly fustrating. Mobile phones do certainly fulfil their intended purposes, they enable to ring and talk to people freely and easily just like they were designed for.