The Ri Ruirech was the king of Kings.
The Ri Tuath(ruiri) was king of numerous Tuatha-mor thuatha.
Aes Dana were the equivalent of rank.
Kings and lords were privileged.
Craftsmen and people of non-agricultural background were also included in this.
Advantages
Websites - online shopping.
Global publicity.
Easy to use. Very fast information.
Social Media helps the world's population stay in touch with each other.
There are a few pieces of software that help you to search the web e.g. Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer and Google workspace.
You get news on www.google.com/news
You have to use it regularly.
You can send texts to a lot of people by means of your mobile phone provider website.
Disadvantages
Your address could be stolen if you don't use it regularly. You could be addicted to it very quickly. therefore there's a reduction on the people that buy newspapers and books, because ebooks is in existence. You have a limit of 160 words for sending group texts online
I love computer games, because they are interesting. I have a Nintendo Wii at home and I use it fairly regularly.
I have a lot of games that I play on it, like Wii Sports Resort, Big Brain Academy, Terri's, Chess, Pictionary, Wii Dance and others.
The Nintendo Wii is approximately 2 years old and when I first bought it I spent a lot of time on it.
I used to spend time playing games on f*******: before starting this course and I was kind of sorry I had to part with them, because I loved them. The Sims, Farmville and Treasure Isle.
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Social Media
Advantages
It is easy create an account.
It is good to keep in contact with relations abroad.
There is good choice e.g. f*******:, Bebo, Twitter(X), Utube, i********:.
Free advertising for businesses.
Disadavantages
It can takeover your life - live online.
Your people skills suffer.
Exercise suffers.
You don't care for socialising anymore.
Email
Reduced reliance on snail mail.
Nobody is handwriting anymore
You can send an attachment easily.
It is quicker than sending something in the post.
Mobile phones
Landlines mot used as much. Less people with landlines. An embarrassing choice of Mobile phones from Busineds, pay as youu go and bill pay. You can send a text at a low cost.
Compact Disc
The idea came from Sony and Philips originally in 1980 and it was brought to the global market in 1983.
It is a product that is used to transfer information from a computer in the event of a breakdown and wouldn't have access to the information. The cds that are on the market now can store up to 700MB.
Nowadays it's a memory stick that is used for storage.