Personal Narrative: How Technology Change Our Lives

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I went out to the field so I could to play soccer with my friends, like we did it during our childhood. I showed up a little early, even though the deal was to meet at six in the afternoon. I was so excited about this game and I wanted to see kids playing, so I could remember my past. But the field was completely empty. Not a single child was on the field. The only think you could hear was the sound of the plastic bottles that wind would move all over the place. Has today 's generation heard of soccer, basketball, hide and seek and other games? Their biggest entertainment are mobile phones, computers, social networks, television and tablets. Times have changed. What is going to happened to us in next 100 years? Is it going to be something good or bad for us? All the advanced technology has its virtues and its flaws. A long time ago, my grandfather told me, we used letters and we sent postcards, sitting in the park late at night, singing and playing …show more content…
Sometimes computers are spending an enormous amount of power, processors were weaker, they were huge and noisy and very expensive and only rich people could afford them. But time has taken its toll. Now almost every single kid have an Iphone and macbook. New generations are able to find everything they need over the internet. Our grandparents had to look in libraries, antique shops and bookstores when they were searching for some information. But there is also a huge problem for the development of technology. Many children have ceased to read, to socialize, hang out with other kids. I was talking the other day with my best friend about, how the two of us could not wait to meet in front of monument and go play football and arranged time for tomorrow with other friends because we did not have mobile phones. Later, when I was a little older we were using fixed phones to checking what we were doing in school and to help each other with

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