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Online In the past 30 years, The digital revolution has changed the way people live their
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family all over the globe by e-mail, which is so quick, cheap and easy to use.
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People can buy shopping on the Internet instead of going to the shops to buy
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internet which provides services that help you do what you
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ways that communication can be established over the internet.
Conclusion Blogs were one of the first forms of communication available
over the internet; they enable people to write, like this one, on
any subject they desire and then publishing it to the rest of the
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another across the internet all most instantly hence the
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The ‘instant email’ and is very popular with both children
and adults alike.Instant Messaging can let you know
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allows you to give them a voice call from PC to PC
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video call which allows you to talk to one and other
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Besides these features, which can differ depending upon which IM client you use, there
are ‘services’ which let you send files between one and another at the same time as your
chat to your friends, you can send alerts to all of your contacts about an event you are
organizing or something else you might need to tell a large amount of people at the same
time. You can customize how you will appear to your friend like a picture or a display of
what music you may be listening to and you can also express your mood as what's known
as a “smillie”. This is typed and appears as a small round yellow face with your mood as a
obvious facial expression :).
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this ‘service’ consist of the teenage era.
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The communicating with their friends to find out
the latest gossip or get some help for
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features and capabilities that aren’t available
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Windows Live Messenger a.k.a. MSN. This is popular because it originally came
preinstalled on the Windows Operating System (Which comes preinstalled on all home
Conclusion computers besides the Mac Platform) therefore making it a convenience as you didn’t
have to go on the internet and find an alternative. This built there client base up which
brought them to become the largest IM client there is. Apart from being an convenience, it
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IM clients courtesy of Microsoft.
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The Email can be written in ether a ‘Client’
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web-based client also known as a “web 2.0
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based application as emails can be written
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access to the internet. This is because it is
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internet. It can be used for advertising,
corporate newsletters and personal details.
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likely people who don’t have computers or
don’t have access to the internet. People
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The Poetical danger of email is
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anonymously to a persons email.
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There purpose of recording key strokes is that eventually the user is going to enter a
password for something and that will inevitably grand access to your payment details in
some cases. Most modern day email providers include spam filters to try and prevent these
sorts of emails.
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The communication via a web page known as a
“Profile”. Its allows you to share pictures
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profile. Its very similar to Instant messaging
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media files. The only difference you could
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allows you to leave comments on each
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As well as this it, also allow you to join and create groups. For example, I
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it enables me exclusive access to content otherwise unavailable to the
general public. I could also create my own group for lets say “the hot
chocolate lovers” group then invite my friends to join.
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The how many people have shows on the main page interests at the top of the
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whether the person is online listed all the movies and the
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