Technology And Technology: The Advantages And Cons Of Technology

Technology has done a lot for us in the past couple of years: it has increased the rate at which we can gain knowledge, provides convenience in many areas of life, and allow us to communicate almost instantaneously with anyone anywhere with a good Wi-Fi connection. Unfortunately with all of the benefits we gain with the progression of technology, we also develop many disadvantages, the scope of which range from not getting enough sleep at night to the invasion of our personal lives, whether through stalking public profiles or wiretapping our phone lines. A society thrives on communication, and the internet is readily supplied with forums, chat rooms and video applications for us to chat with relatives, friends, co-workers. Some job interviews are even done solely over video messages nowadays in order to gauge how a potential employee can handle their tech. Websites like Facebook and Twitter are a godsend for

For people who are very deep in this hole, the point of the website to make new friends and experience new ideas is warped, and in their minds it turns into a race with themselves and other attention seekers to gain the most people to reward their baseless actions and feigning to want human companionship. In reality, it is no more than simple manipulation, of themselves and those who choose to use these websites. Some of these people give up their jobs or social lives just to retain a popular online persona of someone who they clearly aren’t, and are deluded enough to think that their technology can make them great enough to achieve such a large “follower base”. This is more than harmful to the person, as they have lost touch with reality at this point, and harmful for anyone else who admires them and strives to achieve the same