Negative Effects On Technology

The main focus on this generation is all the technology that is being produced and advanced. A lot of companies like Apple, HP and several phone companies are all competing to make the better technology than the other and that why it is becoming a huge focus around the world. Fifty years ago this was the car company trying to produce the best running cars but now they are still doing that but they are also trying to get the best technology mixed with a good car. Everyone sees the benefits of technology, but they don’t focus on the disadvantages. There are many factors of technology that affect the American people. These factors of technology that affect us need to be brought because it is important to know how technology is negatively affecting …show more content…
Everyone needs their alone time but a trend in this era is isolation due to the technologies that are arising. As little kids we would always be running around outside, going house to house knocking on our neighbors doors asking if they wanted to go play tag or street hockey. But, today there had been a common trend of staying inside because all the little kids now want to play video games. All the games systems now can connect you to your buddy down the road and you can chat with them without leaving the couch. Even though society is more connected with technology we are getting more isolated from each other. There are simple ways of talking to people like apps that you can go and chat with people you know or even people you have never met. There are chatting apps like Kik, Tinder and there is now a Facebook messenger. When you are on these new apps you are in danger of online …show more content…
Etiquette is something that we all think we have but when looking deeper our etiquette is being erased by technology. When I was a little kid my dad’s parents took all the grand kids to a time-share where we could spend time with them without our parents there. One thing that they did every year with all of us was manners camp and they taught us table etiquette and the proper way to act around people and in different situations. Now, when we sit at the dinner table, we always have our phones out or have the TV to distract us and that has pulled us away from our etiquette at the table. Last year when my hockey team went out for team dinners, the assistant coach of the team would always bring a bag into the restaurant for our phones and everyone would have to put them in the bag so we had to talk to each other and not just play around on our phones while we were eating. I did not realize this until a while after why he did this because when he was a kid they had to talk to each other at the table, they did not have any portable distractions. Even when we are at the movie theaters, there are lots of the commercials about how cell phones in the movie theater is distracting and should be turned off for respect to others in the theater. Most of the time we do not abide by this because we end up hiding the screen or slouching down in the seat or turning the brightness down