TECHNOLOGY AND ITS IMPACT ON TODAY’S SOCIETY Technology has a huge part in today’s world and it is both negative and a positive thing. Anywhere you go, you will more than likely use some sort of technology. One of the biggest pieces of technology that is used nearly every day in the United States of America by an average person. The average American looks at their phones repeatedly throughout every day to do various things. Technology has rapidly evolved over the last decade. Now instead of having a basic phone in your hand, you have a mini computer in it. Technology keeps you connected in so many ways to so many different things. If it was not for this you probably would lose touch with all of these things that are not in your everyday
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While you are driving you tend to look at your phone and text someone. Even though you know it is fatal, you do it anyways. This disconnects you from the road and what is happening in front of you. Texting while driving is one of the leading causes for wrecks. According to NHTSA approximately ten percent of car wrecks within the age group of sixteen to twenty were caused by the driver being distracted. While texting and driving the lowest amount of time that you are distracted is five seconds. Depending on the length of the message it may be more. At night it is even more dangerous because when you look into the bright light of your cell phone, your eyes need readjusting to where you can see in the …show more content…
This being said you can look back and see how when the times get rough you put your ear buds in and listen to music and try to escape. When doing this you are not getting rid of the problems permanently, you are only getting away from them for a short amount of time. The problems tend to come back all the time and others sometimes remind you of what the problem was. If you continuously are on the phone, you will probably have more problems than someone who occasionally gets on theirs.
Meanwhile there are many advantages while using technology and all that it can do. There are also many disadvantages to it. It is also tremendously important to not confuse which is truly important to you and which is completely irrelevant. Technology is a great way to communicate with one another and it is part of the world in which we live in, but the negatives will just keep building up along with the positives as technology
While you are driving you tend to look at your phone and text someone. Even though you know it is fatal, you do it anyways. This disconnects you from the road and what is happening in front of you. Texting while driving is one of the leading causes for wrecks. According to NHTSA approximately ten percent of car wrecks within the age group of sixteen to twenty were caused by the driver being distracted. While texting and driving the lowest amount of time that you are distracted is five seconds. Depending on the length of the message it may be more. At night it is even more dangerous because when you look into the bright light of your cell phone, your eyes need readjusting to where you can see in the …show more content…
This being said you can look back and see how when the times get rough you put your ear buds in and listen to music and try to escape. When doing this you are not getting rid of the problems permanently, you are only getting away from them for a short amount of time. The problems tend to come back all the time and others sometimes remind you of what the problem was. If you continuously are on the phone, you will probably have more problems than someone who occasionally gets on theirs.
Meanwhile there are many advantages while using technology and all that it can do. There are also many disadvantages to it. It is also tremendously important to not confuse which is truly important to you and which is completely irrelevant. Technology is a great way to communicate with one another and it is part of the world in which we live in, but the negatives will just keep building up along with the positives as technology