Ever since Benjamin Franklin discovered electricity, people have both used and misused technology. The development of technology has brought along a thing called the internet, which has strong effects on the way people act and behave today. It gives people access to information through media, entertainment from video games, and communications through social networks that can be harmful to people of early ages. Many people today believe that the increase of violence in society is due to the many platforms that spread influential ideas that can affect people 's behaviors negatively. In Fahrenheit 451 and 1984 this is shown by the dramatic change in society from what reality is today. These book’s themes explain how technology is taking …show more content…
A new form of bullying has also developed along with electronics called cyber-bullying. Due to the many platforms of social media available there is an overwhelming population of people who post a large portions of their life online for the world to see. They will post opinions that people do not agree with and cause problems between people with opposing opinion to fight against them in the form of cyberbullying, which “6 percent of students ages 12-18 reported being cyber-bullied during the school year”(Batten 523). Being bullied can cause depression and extreme sadness because they feel that they have no purpose in life. In some extreme cases “students who have been bullied and humiliated online have attempted or committed suicide”(Batten 523) from feeling out of control and empty inside. Cyber-bullying has become such a problem that even ”States have responded by passing bullying laws”(Batten 523) prohibitin hurtful acts of bullying online. In Fahrenheit 451 the regular people in society were empty and did not contain real emotion. Lots of people got so sad that they tried to commit suicide. The government needed to develop its own robots for pumping out people 's stomach because they needed a more efficient way of doing it due to the overwhelming population that actually tried to commit suicide by means of medication