Technology and Life
Technology and Life
Facebook, Twitter, email, Snapchat, Youtube, MySpace, blogs, and many other social media sites that we use every day have become a significantly big part of our everyday lives. And they have made lots of things, such as keeping in touch with long distant friends and relatives that much easier. In one sense, the planet has never been more interconnected. And yet, this interconnectedness, while wonderful, hasn't come without cost. The relationships that people have with the virtual world today is starting to get out of hand. At any given time you can look around and every one that you see is on their phones, tablets or computers. Technology is ruining actual physical interaction with other people. Take cyber bulling for instance, it is more prevalent these days than walking down the hallway and getting shoved into a locker. I have observed people using electronic media to make confrontation easier. People are often uncomfortable with face-to-face confrontation, so it is easy to understand why they'd choose to use the Internet. Anyone can be a bully when its online or through a text message because you are able to say hurtful things to other people and not have to see their reactions. It is even more traumatizing when you are cyber bullied because once something is on the internet, it is there forever. In all honesty I would much rather hear or see someone being bullied in halls of school because they actually have a chance to get back up and stand up for themselves. Just a few keystrokes and you look just as bad as the bully, you are letting the internet protect you, but it usually ends up working against you. Another negative side effect of internet addiction is isolation. Everything from pornography to something as innocent as surfing the web, the Internet is the television of the 21st century. It acts as an electronic “drug” that pulls us away from the real world. Like most addictions, the real cost is the number and quality of our
Facebook, Twitter, email, Snapchat, Youtube, MySpace, blogs, and many other social media sites that we use every day have become a significantly big part of our everyday lives. And they have made lots of things, such as keeping in touch with long distant friends and relatives that much easier. In one sense, the planet has never been more interconnected. And yet, this interconnectedness, while wonderful, hasn't come without cost. The relationships that people have with the virtual world today is starting to get out of hand. At any given time you can look around and every one that you see is on their phones, tablets or computers. Technology is ruining actual physical interaction with other people. Take cyber bulling for instance, it is more prevalent these days than walking down the hallway and getting shoved into a locker. I have observed people using electronic media to make confrontation easier. People are often uncomfortable with face-to-face confrontation, so it is easy to understand why they'd choose to use the Internet. Anyone can be a bully when its online or through a text message because you are able to say hurtful things to other people and not have to see their reactions. It is even more traumatizing when you are cyber bullied because once something is on the internet, it is there forever. In all honesty I would much rather hear or see someone being bullied in halls of school because they actually have a chance to get back up and stand up for themselves. Just a few keystrokes and you look just as bad as the bully, you are letting the internet protect you, but it usually ends up working against you. Another negative side effect of internet addiction is isolation. Everything from pornography to something as innocent as surfing the web, the Internet is the television of the 21st century. It acts as an electronic “drug” that pulls us away from the real world. Like most addictions, the real cost is the number and quality of our