Consequences or Principles?

For me consequences because are difficult there are feelings involved. Expressing emotions is risky, however. Thus, many people frame difficult conversations in ways that ignore their emotional content. Unexpressed feelings can leak back into conversation, and can preoccupy people so that they are unable to be good listeners. The solution is for the parties to identify and understand their feelings, negotiate them, and share them clearly.
It can be hard to know what one is feeling. Simple emotional labels can mask complex bundles of feeling. Often people translate their feelings into judgments, characterizations and attributions about the other person. The need to blame often indicates unexpressed emotions. Understanding and reevaluating the thoughts, perceptions and beliefs that gave rise to the emotions enables us to negotiate with our own feelings, shifting or moderating them. The first step in expressing feelings is to acknowledge that they are an important part of the situation, whether they are "rational" or not. Parties should convey the full range anThe first mistakes that people make as they consider what happened is that they assume they are looking at a factual matter, and they assume that their view of the matter is right. Often parties agree on the bare facts. They differ in their interpretation of what the facts mean, and of what is important. To move toward a leaning conversation, parties must shift from certainty about their own views, to curiosity about the other's views of the situation. Parties should also try to understand why they interpret the situation in the particular way they do. The second set of mistakes concerns understanding the parties' intentions. People tend to assume that they know what the other's intentions are. However, our beliefs about another's intentions are often wrong. We base our assumptions on our own feelings; if I feel hurt then you must have meant to be hurtful. We also tend think the worst of others, and the best of ourselves. Another mistake is to assume that once we explain that our intentions were benign, the other party has no reason to feel hurt. To avoid the first mistake, parties must avoid making the leap from impact to intent. Ask the other what their intent was. Remain open-minded about you own interpretation of their intent. Avoid the other mistake by acknowledging the other's feelings, and by considering the possibility of your own complex motives. Complexity of their feelings, and they should avoid rushing to evaluate the feelings expressed. To be effective sharing requires that the parties acknowledge each other's feelings.Consequences can be good,neutral or evil.Another relevant is which consequences count(intended or actual).If only actual consequences count,then do all consequences count?Consequences can be distinguished by direct/indirect,individuals/objects affected,influence of complicating factors,etc.So, moral action always improves life on earth (in some manner). Acting morally can improve your lot in life. So, there is an incentive to act morally even if you do not believe in an afterlife.
*Utilitarianism follows the cause and effect reasoning in science. It can be proven wrong or right by referring to empirical evidence, instead of a theoretical ideal. . All sentient beings understand pain and pleasure. Thus many have claimed that utilitarianism is transcultural. On a related note, utilitarianism avoids the charge of speciesism in ethical theory by using a moral foundation that is shared by other species,The first mistakes that people make as they consider what happened is that they assume they are looking at a factual matter, and they assume that their view of the matter is right. Often parties agree on the bare facts. They differ in their interpretation of what the facts mean, and of what is important. To move toward a leaning conversation, parties must shift from certainty about their own views, to curiosity about the other's views of the situation. Parties should also try to understand why they interpret the situation in the particular way they do. thus requiring their consideration.
* Depending on the deontological theory, these duties may be absolute (no exceptions), prima facie (can only be overridden by a more important duty), or conditional (only hold under specified circumstances).

Social Networking,Privacy Issues

Let’s imagine our lives without the services of online chatting and mailings.
Would have been damn boring to realize that we are not even connected to our friends or maybe someone from whom we could learn something at time of emergency: sitting in the office maybe!!!
These blogs, chat rooms and chat friends have gained so much importance in our daily lives that, we have developed a habit of it.

Social Networking Online relates to formation of a circuit or a chain of friends, family or partners who use variety of tools to interact with each other or share their views in accordance to different aspects.
A proper definition of Online Social Networking can be given by "a community of people who share a common link and thus connect to each other through their social interests, social media or any other needs and thus bond together using social netowkring sites and portal service."
Most social networking sites allow you to create a profile - a section that tells others about you. While many of these are personal, they can also be used for a business that is posting to the site (if the site allows this).
Profile allowances are different on different sites, and many limit the amount of text you can provide in different areas. When this is the case, they may indicate the character limits for an "input text box" and some may even count and display the number of characters used, or tell you how many are left. Others do not. What happens is that people rush to sign up for the social bookmarking sites. They register and mindless begin filling out their profiles, sharing lots of personal information like date of birth, complete name and contact information / location (email, phone number, personal photos) and more. However, people most often don’t use the privacy settings offered by the sites, as they should.
Example of social networking site is youtube,
…and we know a lot of other people watch [YouTube] like our friends, and it's — if we wanted to tell our friends, "Hey, come and watch this," it'd be a lot easier if we just put it on YouTube instead of sticking it in an email and waiting for the email to get there and waiting for them to open it which would take forever 'cause the file was so big. So we just put it on YouTube and go the link, sent the link to everyone, and they watched it.

A PERSPECTIVE IT ETHICS

Many of the ethical issues that face IT propessionals are the following example:

• Should you read the private e-mail of your network users just "because you can?.To ensure that sensetive company information isn't being closed?.Is it okay to read employees’ e-mail to ensure that company rules (for instance, against personal use of the e-mail system) aren’t being violated? If you do read employees’ e-mail, should you disclose that policy to them? Before or after the fact?
  Is it okay to monitor the Web sites visited by your network users? Should you routinely keep logs of visited sites? Is it negligent to not monitor such Internet usage, to prevent the possibility of pornography in the workplace that could create a hostile work environment?

• Is it okay to monitor the Web sites visited by your network users? Should you routinely keep logs of visited sites? Is it negligent to not monitor such Internet usage, to prevent the possibility of pornography in the workplace that could create a hostile work environment?
• Is it okay to place key loggers on machines on the network to capture everything the user types? Screen capture programs so you can see everything that’s displayed? Should users be informed that they’re being watched in this way?
• Is it okay to read the documents and look at the graphics files that are stored on users’ computers or in their directories on the file server?

However,the question of ethical behavior in IT propessionals is the beginning to be addressed.

Millions of computers inhabit the earth and many millions of miles of optical fiber, wire and air waves link people, their computers and the vast array of information handling devices together. Our society is truly an information society, our time an information age. The question before us now is whether the kind of society being created is the one we want. It is a question that should especially concern those of us in the MIS community for we are in the forefront of creating this new society.

There are many unique challenges we face in this age of information. They stem from the nature of information itself. Information is the means through which the minds expands and increases its capacity to achieve its goals, often as the result of an input from another mind. Thus, information forms the intellectual capital from which human beings craft their lives and secure dignity.

IT AS A FIELD OF STUDY

Perhaps one of the best thing about information technology is that you stay up-to-date on the latest techonologies.This usually means that you take courses in state-of-the-art classrooms with access to several types of computers and software.IT is effective and efficient use of information and communication technologies is an important element in achieving competative advantage for business organizations.The importance of information technology to organizations and the need for well-educated proffessionals in the field is the basis for a strong link between educational programs and propessional community.And the development of the field,the different ideas about how to characterize it,and different emphases when programs were begun.You learn how to design computers and related technology.You also learn how to change existing computers and software to better meet computer user needs.Overall,you learn how to solve information technology problems and teach people the best ways to use computer technology.Because computers have such an impact on every aspect of modern life.