Technology: A Catalyst for Social Disconnection

Many people today have become very dependent on technology to the extent that it has adversely changed the way people interact. The technology boom has taken away our traditional ways of communication. It has cause lack of social skills, creates emotional disconnection, and the lost of family values.

First, the majority of people sit for hours on social networks engaging in activities without ever physically having direct contact with the other person. As time progresses, people become adapted to this lifestyle of self isolation therefore finding it difficult socialize with a group of people in real world. Taking example, some people lacks social skill because they spend majority of their time on technology video gaming and expressing their

This ranges family connection to personal relationships. Today, advance technology has enable and present many people with access to chat rooms, Facebook, twitter, and internet as a whole. On any given day, a family “parents and kids” communicates through a technology of some sort cell-phone, laptop or similar devices without any emotional connection of physical eye to eye contact, or the feeling of being emotionally present. A typical emotional feeling like giving or receiving a kiss on the forehead as one leaves for work or school has been lost. Instead, couples and children send and receive kisses, hugs through technology like cell phones. This way of emotional expression has contributed to many present problems of couple and children feeling emptiness even when ones significant other or parent is within an arm length away, yet too far away. Not only that, emotional disconnection not only affects friends and family but also professional lives. This detachment can also result in unpleasant relationships with family and coworkers. Many people have lost the ability to show emotion in the sense that they have isolated themselves from the real world and rely solely on