Information technology has helped many people stay connected with others, interact with others through social media, help employees with their jobs, or help employers to determine who they hire. So how could information technology help me? In many ways, then no. One being through the social, the educational, and the other being professional. So having all this technology can be a little overwhelming, but overall it's useful to almost everyone. This newer technology today can help so many people with so many different things, whether it's talking to your best friend, skyping with your future boss about your future career, spending more than eight hours to research an article that is due in less than twenty-four hours. hours or just sitting on your computer for hours watching cat videos on the Internet. It all depends on how you spend and use your time on the Internet. There are technologies that help me and others in many social ways. Social technology helps me reach people, contact those who have no other way to reach them, or even just see what your peers and friends are doing on a daily basis. Networking helps you keep up with everyone and see all the current trends. But let's say I posted something inappropriate on Facebook or Twitter and my future or current boss sees it via social media, then his perception of me would be totally rethought on how I act outside of it. of the workplace. This boss or coworker would rethink their decision to hire me or even have me on the team simply based on this internet post. Just to maintain the image they strive to maintain and strengthen. Taking care of this image is their job, so hiring you or me would also be or...... middle of paper ...... I put it on social media, and I tell others because we never know how bad it can get if you don't know the consequences. I have used the Internet for many things, mainly academic purposes. These goals include helping to research an article, finding information for an essay, or even watching a video to help with a presentation. All very good things come from information technology. Educational technology basically falls into the same category as academic technology and basically acts the same way when it comes to wanting to find out something or even just knowing what something means. So, in turn, having all this technology surrounding us is both useful and distracting… Because once you start watching cat videos, you can't stop..