Effects Of Technology On Companionship

Technology has been a large part of American culture for the last 200 years and continues to grow more each year. This has made a large impact on our everyday lives and how we interact with one another. The U.S. alone sends over 6 billion texts each day! (Textrequest). This takes away quality time engaging with friends and family. Phones and other devices have taken over our way of communicating, thus affecting our relationships with others.

Have you ever had a friendship with someone ruined? Would you ever want that to happen again due to technology? Most would think that technology is supposed to bring us closer to one another, however that is not always the case. Technology originated around 2.5 million years ago with the discovery with how to give a stone a cutting edge, and around 500,000 years ago man discovered how to tame fire. The first mobile cell phone was invented by Martin Cooper and the first mobile cell phone call was made on on April 3, 1973. ¨In 2002 only 10% of the world’s population used cell phones and by 2005 that number had risen to 46%.¨ Although technology has benefited the world in many ways, one being the fact that people can find love on the internet, the negative impact it has had through social media, and cellular devices, should not be overlooked.

Cell phones and technology are wonderful tools for us to communicate and to grow as society but even though there are many benefits of using cell phones in the various social environments, there is also the greater disadvantage of the usage of the devices. The effects of being rude to one another, “light” unimportant conversations, and weak relationships between peers or family members. In today's world people are way too connected electronically and disconnected emotionally. As there is a lot of controversy to if cell phones are running society's social lives or not, research has shown that they are in fact hurting and affecting how people are interacting and communicating with one another. Between the lack of empathy and the lack of face to face conversations, cellular devices “smart phones” are the major reasons society is seeing a negative effect in people’s social life

Today, he says the two spend more evenings staring at their phones than they do at each other.” (Morris). The article provides information that families are affected by technology and can not keep conversations or continue relationships. Similar to Montag and his wife being so intrigued in their technology they forget about each other and the bond they could have if they had conversations after work or at the end of the night rather than making their devices seem more important to them. “If one partner in the relationship disengages from a face-to-face interaction while engaging in technology...the other person may experience a sense of threat to their need to feel attached and in control in that relationship.” (Morris). The lack of communication in a relationship due to technology seems to push away others in the friendship or relationship, the article proves that when others are more interested in their phone or other devices other party/parties feel distant and pushed away and do not want to continue the relationship.People can start building stronger relationships by putting down their pieces of technology and making time to have a real conversations with the people they

There is no doubt that technology has affected the path of communication, interaction and human relationships. A large number of communication devices like phone have been invented in order to help communication between people. Thus, by giving easier chance to be connected, this development has been encouraging society’s sense of togetherness. Advances in technology have brought people closer with the use of different communication gadgets or websites. On the other hand, it has reduced the real-world or physical interaction. Technology has both pros and cons. But, sometimes the more positive roles overshadow the negative points. Ultimately, technology has improved the communication and relationships between people.

The theme friendship and even family should be expressed more now than ever before in today’s society. With all of the technology around us, people are spending less time together and beginning to take family and friendships for granted. It is important for us to disconnect from our phones, laptops, games and the internet because we need to work with our friends and family at building a stronger and more loving relationship.

Technology has their difficulties, it has made communicating default and made us degrade our friendships. Henry David Thoreau says, “Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very intervals, not having had time to acquire any new values to each other.” our communication with people are weakened by technology, but it gives us connection with other people. Although it goes that it helps us communicate with people it has produced a demeaning value of friendship and overlooks the ethic of friendship.

This world had become more, and more dependent on the new technology. People around the world are adapting to this new technology and they like it, but the new technology it’s destroying social interactions. I have experience situation where I work at, the place where I work is in a Mexican restaurant, they are families that come together to talk about their lives, experiences, personal event etc.… but now day’s mostly young adults are on their phones and they don’t pay attention. They think that their phones, iPad, music player, or any other device is more important than their family. In my own opinion when you have the time to get together as a family, they should talk about what happened today in their day, are there any problems that we can help, or even just talk. Or even more shocking, the new technology is making people more lazy than ever I would say, because for example in a situation where you have to choose to either go outside and play soccer with your friends, but instead you choose to stay inside playing soccer, but in the computer which you only have to move your hands, in the other hand if you go outside you can play and actually move your hands, legs and even talk and laugh with your friends. I myself think that it has impact my life in good and bad way. The good thing about the new technology is that I have more contact with my family in Mexico; I can connect my phone through Bluetooth in my car, I can transfer my YouTube

In the article “The Effect of Technology on Relationships”, Lickerman explains how the planet has never been more interconnected but it hasn’t come without costs. Some of these costs can be social isolation, mistaking virtual relationships for physical ones. Dangers of technology can include sending different messages than we intended. Because texting, emails, and instant messaging have poor ability to express emotion, so something you say can be taken out of context and end up ruining relationships. She concludes with to make technology serve us well, it requires us to exercise it with good judgment.

People are complex beings due to their emotions in relationships. They communicate to receive and send ideas, thoughts, or emotions across to one another, as a form of expressing themselves to others. Hence, it is used to create or form relationships with people. In Adam Gopnik’s “Bumping into Mr. Ravioli,” and Sherry Turkle’s “Alone Together,” the authors discuss the effects of using technology as a means of communication, enabling one to speak with others without being in person or face-to-face. As a result, people find it of more convenience, and seek to use technology as a substitute to simulate in-person communication. However, the authors point out that using technology to communicate can actually separate people, contrary to the common belief that it connects them, because it does not effectively deliver self-expression such as sentiments. Meaning, people are aren’t able to emotionally link and form relationships with others. To specify, Gopnik becomes aware of the busy lifestyle that others live, after observing his daughter, Olivia. He then researches the origin of why people are more emotionally disconnected now, than ever before. He concludes that technology causes one to believe they are busy, therefore people rely on it to communicate quicker and become less occupied. Proving that technology used for communication, creates an illusion in which it dictates their daily routines and free time. Hence, it causes people to interact with others in a manner where self

Today texting is one of the main way people communicate. Texting is quick and convenient way to communicate. The problem with this type of commination occurs when it becomes a person main source of communication, thus a person’s main way he or she builds relationships. Relationships are personal experiences and need clear communication and physical interaction (meaning time spent in together) to be successful. Texting does not incorporate physical interaction and sometimes can cause miscommunication to occur. Thus, texting is an ineffective way to build relationships.

In my most recent blog post I spoke about how technological advancements as well as how dating services has made it more difficult for the youth and adults of society to sustain healthy relationships. Twice as many young adults ages 25-30 first viewed pornography before puberty than did the next generation. Which is a very staggering amount of people loosing their virginities to virtual reality. Only one in 20 young adults and one in 10 teens say their friends think viewing pornography is a bad thing. Our generation has gotten very comfortable with technology that not only do they lose their virginities to technology now teens have became more comfortable establishing social groups of friends online.

In what circumstances do technology have an effect on relationships. A relationship is where two or more concepts or people are connected. Most people in relationship notice to get distracted and intimacy by their technology. Why did the lover resist his technology because he never had one. Almost all would rather chat with their love, while others choose to see theirs in person. There are many ways that technology can affect relationships.

New technology can ruin relationships completely if people lack communication skills. Why would someone want to get to know someone without being face to face? What would they talk about when they are together? The relationship would become dull and boring; there is no way to avoid that. Communication is key; being able to use body language and tones in your voice so people won’t get the wrong idea is impossible over the Internet. Everyone has been in a situation when texting someone, and he or she says something that comes off offensive, and you are completely put off, and feel like you are put in an awkward situation. That rarely happens when you’re able to read people face to face .

Technology has revolutionized communication and the world like nothing before. The Internet has given the world a freedom never explored in the past. The Internet has broken communication barriers to an extreme level. Now day’s two people from two different countries can talk or chat without interactions. Internet has given people the ability to connect forever through social networking. Some of the biggest world social networking services are Facebook and Twitter. Through technology communication is made much easier, but the communication with the people that are right next to us might be getting weak. Technology has its positive and negative impacts on society. It could keep us informed, but it could also affect anyone’s communication life. Even though it’s an easy communication barrier it’s being over used by society every day. The Internet has charge everyone and everything over the years, it has giving us the ability to be informed on a much deeper level. Families are losing their communication, but not just because of technology. Not everything is positive when it’s about technology. It could help us connect no matter the distance, but we could lose communication and relationships. The world has not yet notice that losing important face to face communication because of technology it’s important.