With such rapid speed of development, technology becomes an essential part of humans’ daily life. It appears in almost every aspect: education, business, medical, transportation, etc, and they all demand technical support. Life is much easier, faster, and more convenient than it used to be several decades ago. Technology also helps in saving time, money and effort. Humans cannot deny the benefit they can get from technology. However, because of the massive profit which technology brings up, humans let their guard down and allow technology to surpass much further into personal spaces and are not aware of the consequences. In the text Channel B, Megan Stielstra discusses the negative effect that technology places in human’s life. She claims
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The appearance of search engines and social networking sites make it easier to keep track of anybody using technology in their daily life. The narrator in Channel B is an example; she has this device to observe her kid every night in Channel A and the device accidentally allows her to watch somebody else’s baby in Channel B. The narrator acknowledges the existence of the channel B baby, and she is aware that her doing is “completely intrusive and unethical”, but she neither turns the channel off nor has any intent to stop watching the baby (Stielstra 252). Since she realizes that somewhere else in the neighborhood, there is another person like her, crying at night sometimes because of the unfamiliarity and loneliness of being a new mother. She not only feels connected to it but also sympathizes for having the same circumstances. The appearance of the baby and his mother becomes a great encouragement for the narrator. Technology saves the narrator from loneliness and isolation by letting her access other’s life. She gets benefit from watching them so she keeps doing that daily to satisfy her personal demand. Being able to access to the most personal, private space of the stranger’s life, she is getting pleasure from being a voyeur, and she is so used to having that access that she does not have anymore question about it. Her action portrays the American’s relationship between …show more content…
However, technology stats to play a key role in building relationship now. Although face-to-face communication is still vitally important, the number of social media explodes in the past few decades giving users an array of choices to communicate. They can text message with friends and coworkers, post a tweet, exchange e-mail, text, and instant messages. The mere presence of social media devices can be the beginning of the down fall of interpersonal communication, including closeness, connection, and conversation quality during face-to-face discussion of personal topic. Technology creates massive alienation, people are relied so heavily on technology that they feel more comfort interacting with the device than with actual people. Taking two mothers in the Channel B for example, they are so used to watching each others for such a long time that they do not know what to say when they meet other person on the street. Technology places a negative impact in both of the mothers’ social skill. On some level, technology helps bridge the gap between two mothers but also creates distance between them. According to Ronald B. Adler and his colleagues in the book Interplay, The Process Of Interpersonal Communication, the reason for such changing in face-to-face communication is because the appearance of massive social devices which surpasses human interaction and
The appearance of search engines and social networking sites make it easier to keep track of anybody using technology in their daily life. The narrator in Channel B is an example; she has this device to observe her kid every night in Channel A and the device accidentally allows her to watch somebody else’s baby in Channel B. The narrator acknowledges the existence of the channel B baby, and she is aware that her doing is “completely intrusive and unethical”, but she neither turns the channel off nor has any intent to stop watching the baby (Stielstra 252). Since she realizes that somewhere else in the neighborhood, there is another person like her, crying at night sometimes because of the unfamiliarity and loneliness of being a new mother. She not only feels connected to it but also sympathizes for having the same circumstances. The appearance of the baby and his mother becomes a great encouragement for the narrator. Technology saves the narrator from loneliness and isolation by letting her access other’s life. She gets benefit from watching them so she keeps doing that daily to satisfy her personal demand. Being able to access to the most personal, private space of the stranger’s life, she is getting pleasure from being a voyeur, and she is so used to having that access that she does not have anymore question about it. Her action portrays the American’s relationship between …show more content…
However, technology stats to play a key role in building relationship now. Although face-to-face communication is still vitally important, the number of social media explodes in the past few decades giving users an array of choices to communicate. They can text message with friends and coworkers, post a tweet, exchange e-mail, text, and instant messages. The mere presence of social media devices can be the beginning of the down fall of interpersonal communication, including closeness, connection, and conversation quality during face-to-face discussion of personal topic. Technology creates massive alienation, people are relied so heavily on technology that they feel more comfort interacting with the device than with actual people. Taking two mothers in the Channel B for example, they are so used to watching each others for such a long time that they do not know what to say when they meet other person on the street. Technology places a negative impact in both of the mothers’ social skill. On some level, technology helps bridge the gap between two mothers but also creates distance between them. According to Ronald B. Adler and his colleagues in the book Interplay, The Process Of Interpersonal Communication, the reason for such changing in face-to-face communication is because the appearance of massive social devices which surpasses human interaction and