Today we started on our IM project. Aakriti and Emily and I are creating a powerpoint on Instant Messaging to report to our IPT class.

Our powerpoint slides have already consisted of :
1. What Instant Messaging is.
2. Example of IM
3. Advantages of IM
4. Disadvantages of IM

Instant Messaging is a form of real-time communication between two or more people based on typed text. The text is conveyed through devices connected over a network such as the Internet.

Today we were discussing the advantages involved in Instant Messaging and how IM does not invovle additional costs because it is used instead of Phone. It is also a good form of communication because there are multiple converstaions happening at once. Also the few disadvantages invovled such as security risks and how it is time consuming for adolescents.

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Do you think you might be affected by this type of thing if you were not warned. What precautions could you take to reduce the chance of this. Is facebook an information system? What do you think is the data / information of this system ?

I do not think i would be affected by this type of thing even if i wasn't warned as i do not place valuable data on my facebook. The only thing can only probably be classified as valuable is my email. If my email gets hacked then yes i would be affected.
Yes, i think facebook is an infromaiton system. The data/information in this system are the names of people around the world and whatever information they place about themselves on thier facebook profile. such dat would include age, email, gender or where they live.