How Is Technology Destroying Us?

The percentage of people that uses technology is increasing every day, technology could be controlling you. Although some may believe that technology is helping the world because its helps you get to where you 're going by using GPS. Others may believe that technology is destroying us because it’s allowing people to be bullied, it’s destroying our communication with others, and it’s allowing children to become followers. Technology can help us or destroy us, what would technology do to you?

Many people will believe that technology would stop bullying but it only makes it worse. In today 's society children as well as adults are being cyber bullied. More than half the people that are being cyber bullied commits suicide. Jessica Logan was

Only 40% of American families still sit at the dinner table and eat together at least 3 times or less out of a week. Technology is causing families to communicate less. When is the last time you saw a family eating together without any technology at the dinner table? It’s not just affecting families it’s also affecting others. We would rather e-mail or send someone a text, what happened to face to face conversations? Benjamin Painter is a man who lost his wife because of Facebook. Painter stated “I knew she was going to lose interest but Facebook made her lose it faster.” This is a part of lack of communication, if we didn’t have technology Printer might still have his wife. If they had face to face conversations maybe they would have worked through their problems, for better or worst remember? We would avoid face-to-face communication because we would rather send an e-mail or a text message. Technology is helping us communicate faster. Why sit down to have a long conversation when you can send a text message in less than 5 minutes? Zucchini was using Facetime when he got home to show his wife he didn’t buy the wrong vegetables this time. “I have learned there are so many smart ways that technology has allowed us to communicate more quickly and efficiently” (Zucchini). He took his niece to Detroit to a concert and he sent a text message to his sister

Watch what children views on TV and what they see plays a huge part in their lives. I live by "train up a child in the way they shall go". Technology is causing children to do what they see. For example when playing video games that have shooting in them they would think it’s cool to go around and shoot. Or watching videos with smoking, and drinking they would think it’s okay to do those things. “Children now shows that a majority of video games include violence and about half of the violent incidents would result in serious injuries or death in the "real" world” (D.Phil.) Videos can help increase children interactions. If you shoot someone on a video game and don’t go to jail. You’re most likely to shoot someone in real life and think you’re not going to jail. Technology is helping better our kids’ minds. “Children who played video games — often age-appropriate games — for the same amount of time did not show any signs of negative behavioral changes” (Phil). Technology is helping children with things they are not learning in the classroom. Technology helps children with their abc 's, mathematical problems, etc. There are also games that help them count. Yes, technology is helping children but that’s the reason we have daycares, and schools. If your baby is struggling and they 're not understanding what 's being taught at school it’s your job as a parent to make sure they understand. Just because your children