Explain How Many People Grew Up In 2100's

One of the many negative points in this article is that there has been a decline in teenagers’ social abilities in the recent generations. In the article it says, “The number of teens who get together with their friends nearly every day dropped by more than forty percent from 2000 to 2015 and the decline has continued to become steeper” (Twenge). After reading this article I realized the difference in the amount of times I hung out with my friends in high school than I did in middle school. Middle school was around the time I got my first smartphone and not many people had one, so I wasn’t constantly on it and neither was anyone else. We also couldn’t even bring our phones to school if we had them; this forced us to communicate in class and during passing period, instead of having our faces glued to our phones. Since we were always talking face to face, it was easy to have many

This is none so more apparent than in the United States where a strange phenomenon is beginning to develop as a direct consequence of the rapid pace of technological advancement, this phenomenon is going bowling alone. This has been highlighted because at its core bowling is an extremely sociable event and it was fun thing to do with friends and peer groups prior to technology exploding at an unprecedented rate. Nowadays people find the ease of staying at home to watch television or movies or play videogames much more appealing than going out to the bowling alley with their friends for a game of bowling. You would think in today’s modern and constantly connected world that it would be easier than ever to organise your group of friends to go for a game of bowling, but that isn’t the case. Despite being constantly connected to the world, organising a large group event is quite difficult because people tend to ignore their devices as some sort of respite, to clear their minds from the stresses of the modern day and to get some peace and quiet. Unlike, say 20 years ago, when you would tell your friends where to go and at what time they were to go there at before a large group

We moved back here to our old home in 2006 when my mom had her second marriage, I really enjoyed the neighborhood and neighbors. Everyone was so friendly; we had this one neighbor who was always there to help us, the only neighbor we really ever trusted. Everyday all the children on the street would come out an play and interact with everyone on the street; this was back when children didn’t spend the entire day stuck on their phones. Now a day you rarely see this anymore, technology has consumed so much of our lives, it’s ridiculous. Also the fact that most of us don’t even notice how we are all practically enslaved to our phones, it has taken over much of our lives. As time passed, we slowly stopped playing outside, going to the park, and became afraid of even opening the door if it was not a familiar face. Slowly we became so accustomed to spending the day on our phones or computers we forgot what it truly meant to be child, we no longer spent any time outside to play. Also the media online and on the television began to create a bad image of letting children roam the streets and play. It instilled fear into parents that their children might be abducted or take a turn to the wrong side being associated with bad influences. I guess we were still accustomed to our old neighborhood, which was very safe, no parent ever feared of letting their children

Back then, children had toys and playgrounds to keep them entertained; these days, most children have an electronic device in their hands, such as an iPad, that keeps them amused. Rather than depend on their own imagination to come up with ways to amuse themselves, they are looking at a screen and poking at it, which takes away their imagination, something that is important to have as a kid. This dependency continues on as we become teenagers and adults, shown through examples in “No Need to Call”. Audrey, a 16-year-old from Roosevelt High School, pretty much lives on her cell phone; she is constantly taking pictures to post on Facebook so that other people can see the version of herself that she wants them to see. She goes as far as to say that if Facebook were deleted, she would be deleted too, which seems a bit too much (Turkle 380). No one should feel like their Facebook, phones or computers are their whole life and that they would not be able to live without them for even one day. This is when we should realize and know that we are way too dependent on those technologies, and that this dependency is not a good thing if we are too absorbed in

People who become too accustomed to lives based around technology will no longer interact in the real world. Today people rely on technology for many things such as communication, entertainment, transportation, e.t.c. For example, in Ray Bradbury’s work “The Pedestrian”, the world has diminished into lives lived sitting in front of TV screens. He writes, “The tombs, ill-lit by television light, where the people sat like the dead, the gray or multi-colored lights touching their faces, but never really touching them”, (Bradbury, 60). In this example Bradbury describes the life of people watching television all day and seeing the sights on-screen, but not being inspired or enlightened to go outside to experience it. Most people prefer to stay

With technology absorbing every moment of people’s lives and the utter rejection of social relationships, people become alienated. Although

When was the last time you drove to BestBuy for physically buying an electronic item? How often do you have traditional family dinner with all the members sitting at the dining table? “Such home may be full of people but they are really empty” and “the consequences of this accelerating isolation of individuals are dire” (Eitzen, 2000: p.28). Eitzen argues that, “technology also encourages isolation” (Eitzen, 2000: p.27). This is probably the leading cause of isolated society. We faced major shift toward isolation after invention of television, phones, and the Internet. Now days, we tend to spend more and more time watching television or browsing the Internet, rather than socializing with friends and neighbors. In addition, 21st century introduced whole new ear of communication means via emails and phone messaging. It has proven to reduce our person-to-person interactions. According to Eitzen, “we are becoming an autistic society, communicating messages electronically but without really connecting” (Eitzen, 2000: p.27). This affects how we interact with social problems. Days are not far when Disney fiction movie, Wall-E become a reality because our society is becoming more and more

In 2016, it’s nice to have all the food we want and be able to turn a dial to warm up or cool down our homes in seconds. Not to mention just being able to sit down on a nice couch and turn on whatever you want on television. Also, if you are a gamer you may like 2016, but if you like being outside it may be hard to get people together to go play out in the woods. Not only will it be hard to play outside, but unlike Tom and his friends, we interact on a screen, not face to face. In 1876 you wake up, eat breakfast, go to school ,if you are Tom you take a swim, then you come home and play with your friends. They don’t sit down on the couch, turn on the television and eat potato chips. In 1876, a few downsides are the fact that you can’t just go to the cabinet and eat what you want, and also on Sundays you must wear your Sunday best. Even though these times were different they still have many things in common, people talk, just in different ways, people still go out and enjoy nature, but now not as much. All in all, we have it better in 2016 but 1876 sounds like it would be more fun as a

2050 is the year, and nothing is like it was when I was my kids' age. Instead of them playing outside with friends, they stay inside and play games on their high tech tablets, commuters, and phones; children have now replaced skateboards with hover boards, and toys with electronics! My husband, Alex Turner, and I miss the days when people would actually interact with each other. Nowadays you never see 2 kids playing soccer in the front yard or riding bikes down the street; all you see is flying cars and motorcycles speeding down the roads. Today talking to virtual friends is more important than talking to real friends it seems like. When I was young, phones and social media were still a huge part out our lives, but not like this.

Each culture has a different set of rules and norms. Sometimes, we as individuals, use our culture’s norms as a guideline of how to behave and how we think people should behave. These enable to have a specific perception and a way of thinking. We stay in our comfortable way of living and never acknowledge that there is more than our regular lifestyle. In today’s modern world, we depend too much on technology. Most of us spend most of the day using our cellphones, playing video games or on our laptop, never taking a glimpse of the world around us. Especially, those who use the whole day to watch television or play video games since they are participating in a fantasy and never realizing they are missing out of reality. Such as Aristotle, a philosopher who is the student of Plato, explains in his allegory of the cave. In Plato’s Republic, Socrates uses the allegory of the cave to explain that knowledge and education are the solution to free people of ignorance.

Firstly, we are now living in an era where one little mistake and we considerably regret it for the rest of our lives. Social media used to be a platform where people use to connect to there families. Now it has become a breeding ground for cyber bullies. Innocent pictures people post are now being turned into memes and is becoming the bullet that takes the lives of so many children and adults. The fast pace evolution of technology is also creating more and more loners and obese people. Why go outside with my friends and play ball or even walk to my friends house to chill, when I can just sit in my room all day and watch television, play game, watch movie and

In this age, people need to be on their electronics. If you are not aware of this already, you are also most likely part of that majority of society. Look around and put down your phone and you will also see what I see. If we didn’t have our GPS, how would we get somewhere? If we didn’t have our cell phone, how would we tell our parents we are ready to get picked up from practice? Cell phones, laptops and electricity have become a necessity in this age and I believe that because of this, people would not be able to handle life without

We, students nowadays always depend on our modern technologies to do our daily activities. Our grandparents and also our parents always tell us what are their lifestyle when they are young. We really saw

Society has blown technology and its use out of proportion. For manifold a telephone is the first object they reach for in the morning, and the last they see before closing their eyes. Not only that but the amount of time spent using technology throughout the day is insane, “People spend an average of 8 hours 21 minutes sleeping a day – but spend an average of 8 hours 41 minutes on media devices” (Madlen Davies). People are using devices all the time, everywhere. Walking down the street odds are everyone has been in the position where they are physically run into by a person distracted by the electronic that's being used. Also during time that was previously spent socializing is now being spent engulfed in electronics. Family dinner time is being filled with heads faced down. Children are being ignored by parents to distracted by devices to pay attention to those around

We live in a generation where it is normal to have more than one electronic device on hand and to have headphones on constantly. We have our devices with us at all times and places. We even begin to panic when our phones reach 10% so we rush to find our chargers before our phones die. I agree that people have sacrificed conversation for mere connection, and while we are sitting together physically we are not present with one another. People have learned to be together yet alone as well as expecting more from technology than human beings and while we are sitting together physically we are not present with one another.