Negative Effects Of Technology And Technology

It’s another day at school and as students walk through the hall they walk by or bump into other people and they notice that most all of them are on their phones texting, have earbuds in, or scrolling through their recent news feed on Facebook. Then as a student goes to class they sit during lectures only to be interrupted by a vibrating cell phone in their pocket that tells them that a best friend wants to meet up for lunch next period. Only recently, many people are more connected to technology and the internet. Internet and social media has made it increasingly difficult to get anything done in everyday life. Obviously, technology has advanced, but how much are students operating socially being affected? Technology in the form of cell phones,

Also cell phones have made it easier to talk to people through text messages and online media. Quickly picking up a phone and messaging someone has become the social “norm” of the twenty-first century. The art of letter writing has gone all but practically extinct. No longer are students more likely to pick up a pen and put words down on paper to send to others. I found myself in this exact spot as well. A majority of the time I am too lost in a conversation over a screen and wish to hide behind text messages rather than speak to someone. Leading me to believe that this age of modern technology has not only moved us along faster and easier in life, but it also has led to poor performances in everyday social skills and negatively effects our health and development as a

We once wanted to believe that it was our backbone, now it can be concluded that it has evolved into being our main power, or brain. Not allowing ourselves the ability to think on our own and be creative, to allowing it to be our entire life. Nevertheless, technology is very beneficial to all our lives and we cannot go backwards in time once we have already advanced forward in motion for a more. But to conserve how much we lean on technology and devices to carry us through our lives can be limited or exercised to a degree of discipline away from it. It can be simplicity in itself and can be fair to those who would think that technology does not affect us negatively in any way. We should simply reduce the amount time spent daily on devices surfing the web, scrolling through Facebook or Tweeter, and texting. It is important to realize that we should not have to let it live for us, but use only when it is needed to, and not become something that we