My Personal Interaction With Technology

Technology is the inevitable force that is sweeping countries, and taking millennials with it. Simon Sinek states that “adolescents are becoming addicted to social media. Social media itself is not bad, but the imbalance is. Like all addictions, being addicted to social media will ruin relationships, it’ll cost time, and cost money.” Not to mention, using technology too much and not interacting with others face-to-face is depriving adolescents of important relationship skills that are essential inside and out of a job. Electronic usage itself is not bad, but using too much of it is, as with anything else. As Ray Bradbury points out in The Veldt, “Too much of anything is not good for

The documentary, “Bully," is an incredible film which follows four teenagers through their struggle with bullying and discrimination. This film was very eye-opening to those who did not experience bullying to that degree and made it easier to understand the common issue of bullying and discrimination in our middle and high schools around the nation. It also brings attention to how poorly schools discipline discrimination.

The posting of location and where they live has gone from 61% to 71% in 12 years. 71% of teens post their school name, which went up from 41%. All this poses a threat to identity theft or stalking. On social media profiles 92% of people post their real name and 82% put their birthday. 12% of teenage twitter users don't know if their tweets are private or not. 19% say that they have posted a photo, video, or comment they later regretted. Almost 60% of 18-35 year olds think people share too much info about their personal thoughts, experiences and location. 24% of teens confess that they don't actually know or like all the people the accept follow requests from. From all the posting, sharing info, and interacting online about 27 hours per week is

In the emerging generation, teenagers have developed insecurities brought up by body image, advertisements, and the development of social media and its lack of privacy. These insecurities have left a mark on teenagers, and left them with fears of the future and the changes surrounding it.

The reason why teenager’s lives are so difficult is because teens are so wrapped up with what others think of them. Teenagers care about their appearance so much, they will spend countless hour’s blogging, tweeting, and posting pictures to improve social media reputation. Technology has molded teenagers into “Screenagers”. Not only on cell phones but televisions because of the video game system such as

He tells everyone in school that they had sex even though they had only kissed. Hannah is shocked to learn that a rumor “based on a kiss started a reputation that other people believed in and reacted to” (30). This lie creates a false portrayal of who Hannah is. It does not take long for people to begin to start talking about her in unflattering ways. Alex, a classmate of Hannah’s, wrote a Hot or Not list and ranked Hannah as the “Best Ass” in the freshman class.

The author provides the reader with twenty-eight short paragraphs, no more than five lines, every paragraph plays a pivotal role in providing a different piece of repetitive evidence. The paragraphs are explicit in detail and very straight forward to make the ‘bulling more visible’. The structure behind the text establishes a visual representation to the audience of the frequency of the ‘widespread’ issue on cyber bullying platforms that apply to the reader of ‘Facebook’ and ‘Instagram’. The authors applies a tone influenced by her personal ‘experience of cyberbullying’ where she grew up in a culture filled with ‘blatant misogyny’, emulating to the reader how women feel about this topic, as ‘still to this day women lead in all the stats of bullying, harassment and abuse’. The author strives to evoke an emotional awareness towards the liability of women to fall victim to cyberbullying. The anecdotes are also dense in emotive language appealing to the

While technology brings people together, it causes teen’s identities to be negatively affected. Almost all teenagers are insecure about one thing, if not many things. Because of this, having phones and computers make all of these insecurities much harder to deal with. For example, I used to be insecure about the clothes I wore and wanted to keep up with the latest style. I would constantly be checking Instagram and Facebook and feeling bad about myself and how I didn’t wear all the name brands like all my friends did. In “Growing Up Digital: How The

Many naive teenage girls use social media and do not adequately monitor their privacy, believing the anonymity of technology will shield them from harm. However, these sexual predators can disguise their identity. These predators can arrange to meet up with their victim at places in the outside world. A teenage girl may believe this predator is someone her age, but how would she know if they never met in person? Many will argue the most positive effects of technology's intangible contact would be the reconnection with friends from times long ago, or being able to have long-distance relationships. Still, many people who frequently use social media have never actually seen their online "friends" in real life. This loss of human contact in social media and technology contributes to high numbers of sexual assaults and murders from the predators in the real world. Technology does allow people to complete tasks without the contact with others, but this has had an ultimately negative effect on society. Even though technology's human contact limitation allows for personal and private tasks such as shopping or checking out books alone, technology has mainly been proven to contribute to antisocial behavior, mental health issues,

Reclusiveness has been a very deterring aspect in my life. It has affected me as an individual, as a team member and also as an emerging health professional. However, during my participation in this course I have come to understand that it is important to make myself better, and that will resonate in other aspects of my life. My journey started when I decided to select this course. Of course I just picked it on a whim because the title indicated complex communication, just to try breaking out of my shell, and becoming more confident. In just a few weeks, I have learned so much about not just myself but also other people. Yet I have more to learn as I have realized that I am not as knowledgeable as I thought. My reflection looks at not only what I have learnt so far but the surprises I discovered, my improved confidence in what I already knew, and ideas that have changed my opinions, what I wish I had done differently and the improvements I would like to make as I move forward. I began this course grudgingly, because I was going through a lot of transitioning at once, moving to a new home, starting a new job, and starting a new school, all contributed to my initial disinterest. As I look through my weekly reflections there were three reoccurring words I noted. Self, team and communication are all common denominators that summarizes my total weekly reflections till date.

From a young age, all an individual could want is to fit in and strive to be the best that they could be, with this social media play’s a huge role. In this day and age almost everyone uses technology for school, work and most importantly recreation. From computers, to phones, to tablets, we use everything and the internet is the gateway to accessing anything we could possibly imagine, therefor it is extraordinarily easy for young children and teenagers to excess the internet as well. For most the internet seems like the place to go to look up anything you want and to get the answer handed to you immediately but for some the internet can be the gateway to unrealistic expectations for young adolescence’s striving for perfection in their lives.

Technology can have good things and bad things, however teenagers have a habit of believing what is told to them, even if really it is false information. On many websites, random people can write information that they say is ‘true’. According to Mandy Oaklander, “The thing that teenagers are most often attached to, technologically speaking, is their phone. Many young people cannot last mere minutes without their phones. Teenagers are accompanied by their phones in almost every situation: eating dinner with friends, sitting in their desks at school, even going to bed. It seems that teenagers are reliant on their phones for everything they do.” As said in this text it is clearly seen that teenagers do everything with their phone, and worse, they believe what is told to them. technology has a negative effect of the relationships due to the internet breaking teenagers lives

I am going to tell you some my experiences with technology from my past and how it will lead to my future. One of my experiences includes taking a Video Cassette Recorder (VCR) apart when I was younger. Another is when I built my first computer and the consequences that followed when I did that.

Imagine being on a business trip, sitting on a couch in a five-star hotel room with a multi-tasking robot doing all your chores for you on command. Cooking, cleaning, and even doing your laundry. Our everyday use of technology has advanced so much, that you can do anything through a little screen that you can keep in your pockets. Doing work, remotely controlling your own car, or even making calls through man-made radio signals that can extend across the entire solar system. You can snap pictures with your own retina at will. Cars can float on water, some can even fly. We might not even need cars anymore, our means of transportation have advanced beyond the wheels-on-pavement concept. Instead of using oil or coal, harnessing the sun’s energy in various ways would be the way to go. The human civilization would have advanced so much, that humans would be considered a type 1 civilization on the Kardashev scale. However, instead of it being on our home planet, Earth, all of this is taking place on our planetary neighbor, Mars, or even farther. This goal ,of course, comes with a great deal of resources, whether natural or financial, an amount that possibly exceeds our current comprehension. Extending our reach into space is going to take quite a while. NASA and other space organizations are working towards the right direction. NASA predicted the first manned mission to Mars would take place sometime in the 2030’s, the mission is already well under-way.

From having good grades, to studying for the ACT, in addition to trying to fit into the social aspect in high school a teens life has never been more hard. And the invention of the smartphone has only added to the amount of stress that a teen has to deal with. The smartphone has created an environment in which adolescents are always connected with those they go to highschool with, through the use of social media. For example if a bully were to be picking on a student at school the student could not just go home and forget about the incident, but now the bully has the ability to abuse that student at any point he/she desires. These types of incidents are creating a new wave of problems for adolescents and their parents, Nojiri Matthew interviewed Rick Wolf (assistant superintendent at Mifflin School district) explaining “The increase in social media use has added another element when identifying and caring for kids dealing with anxiety, depression, eating disorders, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and other mental health disorders, Wolf said” (Wolf). The smartphone is the catalyst to these problems. If you were to take away the smartphone problems such as cyberbullying would be less of an issue. However adolescents these days are given smartphones at such a young age, with no supervision on how long they use it throughout the day, that it becomes second nature to be looking at it every minute of everyday checking their social media profiles.