Scholarship Essay: Interpersonal Connection and Technology
The amount of information available to the public, seems ludicrous, how to build a Tesla coil, Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck with his “Quantum theory” all accessible through a tiny box! Technology integrated the ability for anyone, anywhere who can access the internet to learn about the same material. This ability is astounding, in 2014 I memorized 200 words and studied for 3 national Certified Medical Assistant certificates all from an online site called Quizlet. Giving the personal conclusion that the internet can fill an appetite for knowledge for anyone. There’s too much information on everything in the world for one person to learn all about it. However, technology and social media aren 't all bliss, it’s genuinely terrifying how inappropriate usages have affected individual’s interpersonal and social interactions.
Technology and social media, prevailing to be one of the largest promoters of instant-gratification that I’ve ever seen. People insist the box within their hands provide them the instant requested need they seek and if it doesn’t? It’s strange, how our mood changes when our technology or a …show more content…
Frequent visits to my college 's common room exhibits how social paradigms have shifted and allow lives to consist of being buried in their phones. Talking to mom, dad, boyfriend/girlfriend or friends through text for hours. This pertains to a fundamental social problem within interpersonal skills! Hours with the individuals face buried into a box “talking to people”, creates strains on talking to the people who have a physical and mental presence within the
The amount of information available to the public, seems ludicrous, how to build a Tesla coil, Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck with his “Quantum theory” all accessible through a tiny box! Technology integrated the ability for anyone, anywhere who can access the internet to learn about the same material. This ability is astounding, in 2014 I memorized 200 words and studied for 3 national Certified Medical Assistant certificates all from an online site called Quizlet. Giving the personal conclusion that the internet can fill an appetite for knowledge for anyone. There’s too much information on everything in the world for one person to learn all about it. However, technology and social media aren 't all bliss, it’s genuinely terrifying how inappropriate usages have affected individual’s interpersonal and social interactions.
Technology and social media, prevailing to be one of the largest promoters of instant-gratification that I’ve ever seen. People insist the box within their hands provide them the instant requested need they seek and if it doesn’t? It’s strange, how our mood changes when our technology or a …show more content…
Frequent visits to my college 's common room exhibits how social paradigms have shifted and allow lives to consist of being buried in their phones. Talking to mom, dad, boyfriend/girlfriend or friends through text for hours. This pertains to a fundamental social problem within interpersonal skills! Hours with the individuals face buried into a box “talking to people”, creates strains on talking to the people who have a physical and mental presence within the