Technology is our friend. That is a statement that could be addressed with many questions. How we used technology today has really affected our lives. We are connected every moment of the day. We see people talking on the cell phones at every stop light. The same people can people seen texting or browsing the web at every chance they get. The friendship with technology today can be called a “Time Hog”. Only if users would just stop to see how much time they are wasting on the phones. According to the article Wireless ("Wireless Quick Facts," 2015), there are 292.8 million, plus active wireless connections in the United States. People talk, texts, read, play games and browse the internet on the cell phones. The stats are quite alarming when
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We listen to books, music, watch movies, and scour the internet for the latest news. Everybody is guilty that owns a phone. We are constantly checking our e-mail, or status of a post. Moreover, Google is one of the most productivity-zapper out of them all. People waste more and more time at work than ever before. Technology has allowed for the population with cell phones to waste enormous amounts of the time of the normal work day. Productivity today is being loss by the same technology in our lives that we love and feel that we cannot part from it. Employees are wasting vast amounts of time by taking phone calls at work, sharing pictures or quotes that they receive during the normal work day. It is important to state that the technology that we abuse is the same inventions that we need to do our work. However, people have become so additive to this source of a time hog they are not even realizing they are wasting employers time and not their own. It is no secret; Americans love to be connected somehow, someway. Whether it is with our phones, watching TV, or listening to music, but as an average we spend right at /11 hours a day watching TV/. The total hours spent what some would call wasteful hours are astonishing. It is amazing how much time is wasted during the day just using technology to pacify …show more content…
Instead of us utilizing the technology in our lives, we are allowing the same technology to waste a lot precious time; time that we will never get back. We have to take into consideration the amount of injuries occur every year when we talked about how technology affects our lives today. Unfortunately, when people start texting and walking, let alone trying to drive a car, they will trip, bump into things or even fall off sidewalks. Records shows the pedestrian injuries relate to mobile-phone use are much higher for male users, plus accidents are extremely high for people under 31 years old. When people get hurt and have to work, it is another example how technology has affective our lives. Right now there is somebody texting, or talking on their phone, or checking e-mail. Our society has become so addictive to technology that we need to be connected 24 hours of the
We listen to books, music, watch movies, and scour the internet for the latest news. Everybody is guilty that owns a phone. We are constantly checking our e-mail, or status of a post. Moreover, Google is one of the most productivity-zapper out of them all. People waste more and more time at work than ever before. Technology has allowed for the population with cell phones to waste enormous amounts of the time of the normal work day. Productivity today is being loss by the same technology in our lives that we love and feel that we cannot part from it. Employees are wasting vast amounts of time by taking phone calls at work, sharing pictures or quotes that they receive during the normal work day. It is important to state that the technology that we abuse is the same inventions that we need to do our work. However, people have become so additive to this source of a time hog they are not even realizing they are wasting employers time and not their own. It is no secret; Americans love to be connected somehow, someway. Whether it is with our phones, watching TV, or listening to music, but as an average we spend right at /11 hours a day watching TV/. The total hours spent what some would call wasteful hours are astonishing. It is amazing how much time is wasted during the day just using technology to pacify …show more content…
Instead of us utilizing the technology in our lives, we are allowing the same technology to waste a lot precious time; time that we will never get back. We have to take into consideration the amount of injuries occur every year when we talked about how technology affects our lives today. Unfortunately, when people start texting and walking, let alone trying to drive a car, they will trip, bump into things or even fall off sidewalks. Records shows the pedestrian injuries relate to mobile-phone use are much higher for male users, plus accidents are extremely high for people under 31 years old. When people get hurt and have to work, it is another example how technology has affective our lives. Right now there is somebody texting, or talking on their phone, or checking e-mail. Our society has become so addictive to technology that we need to be connected 24 hours of the