Digitally Insane The average person spends 4 years of their lives looking down at their cell phones. (Ea) The use of technology in our world is clearly a growing problem for all ages, and needs to be addressed, especially since the production of technology is flourishing today. I believe that the human race needs a reality check in how much time they are spending on their electronic devices. Technology and electronic devices are affecting a multitude of things, including our health, social lives, schooling and work, and relationships. There are both advantages and disadvantages to the constant use of technology, causing the detachment from the real world. This is a very clear media topic, since the main source of media is from our electronic
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Technology is affecting our relationships with our significant other. If you have one, you need to communicate with your partner, and find out if you both want to text all of the time, and just make sure that you are on the same page as each other. “Constant cellular contact may disguise a lack of in-person communication.” (MacMillan). You should never have serious conversations, or argue over text messages. Most of the times, women are very satisfied with more texting, but men feel the opposite. Studies say that guys usually text more when they are not happy and want to break up. It is usually best to just wait to argue, and apologize in person. Face to face communication is always better in relationships. Technology also seems to be affecting our friendships. A couple of text messages is not anywhere close to the equivalent of chatting with a friend. Smiley faces are cute and all, but they can not ever replace the grin of a friend. “Face to face interaction is proven by studies to comfort us and provide us with some important sense of well-being”, stated Melissa Nilles in her article titled “Technology is Destroying the Quality of Human Interaction” in 2015. Some stores have actually started taking out their self checkouts, because it causes that lack of …show more content…
I can confidently say that technology is affecting human interactions in many ways. We are having a harder time keeping up friendships and relationships. We are also struggling when it comes to technology in schools. One time when I was out eating with some friends, and I was on my phone, as the rest of them were. Yet, for one split second, I had this idea to simply look up. What I saw was an absolute nightmare. The rest of my group were staring blankly at screens, as if they were zombies. All I could think of is what difference it would make if we didn’t have these devices to restrict us. After doing my research, I came to the final decision that things need to change. My colleagues and I have all been affected by this, and continue to every day. I have both a cell phone and a chromebook, and I am on both of them every day for the majority of the day. In reality, there is nothing I can do for others, except for raise awareness. This is something that a person needs to change themselves, and you can not expect change to come without action. I think that schools could lessen how much we use our technology. I also think that we could reach out to parents to show them how much of an impact this actually makes on people for the rest of their lives. People just need to be conscious of how much time that they are spending on their electronic
Technology is affecting our relationships with our significant other. If you have one, you need to communicate with your partner, and find out if you both want to text all of the time, and just make sure that you are on the same page as each other. “Constant cellular contact may disguise a lack of in-person communication.” (MacMillan). You should never have serious conversations, or argue over text messages. Most of the times, women are very satisfied with more texting, but men feel the opposite. Studies say that guys usually text more when they are not happy and want to break up. It is usually best to just wait to argue, and apologize in person. Face to face communication is always better in relationships. Technology also seems to be affecting our friendships. A couple of text messages is not anywhere close to the equivalent of chatting with a friend. Smiley faces are cute and all, but they can not ever replace the grin of a friend. “Face to face interaction is proven by studies to comfort us and provide us with some important sense of well-being”, stated Melissa Nilles in her article titled “Technology is Destroying the Quality of Human Interaction” in 2015. Some stores have actually started taking out their self checkouts, because it causes that lack of …show more content…
I can confidently say that technology is affecting human interactions in many ways. We are having a harder time keeping up friendships and relationships. We are also struggling when it comes to technology in schools. One time when I was out eating with some friends, and I was on my phone, as the rest of them were. Yet, for one split second, I had this idea to simply look up. What I saw was an absolute nightmare. The rest of my group were staring blankly at screens, as if they were zombies. All I could think of is what difference it would make if we didn’t have these devices to restrict us. After doing my research, I came to the final decision that things need to change. My colleagues and I have all been affected by this, and continue to every day. I have both a cell phone and a chromebook, and I am on both of them every day for the majority of the day. In reality, there is nothing I can do for others, except for raise awareness. This is something that a person needs to change themselves, and you can not expect change to come without action. I think that schools could lessen how much we use our technology. I also think that we could reach out to parents to show them how much of an impact this actually makes on people for the rest of their lives. People just need to be conscious of how much time that they are spending on their electronic