The National Movement: Shut Down Your Screen Week

Technology has become so integrated into our daily lives. It is now common to see people with a hands-free earpiece plugged into their ear and who appear to be talking to themselves. The above summary is from an article by Sherry Turkle titled, The Documented Life, and discusses how modern technology has caused us to put our lives on hold. I do agree with Turkle as she made several good points that there has been a negative shift in the way we

We rely on technology for everything in our lives today. It is hard for us to be more than ten steps away from our phone. Dependence on technology is even evident in Fahrenheit 451. In the novel, the TV is everything to some people. It becomes their friend their family and even their life. They even have technology that butters their toast and medical procedures. We use technology everyday whether it is our phone, laptop, or ipod. We use them every single day all day long. If something was not to work for a single day our society would crash with the absence of technology.

In these days, people get addicted to the technology around that we are not even realize. Although technology is very useful to us, it has more disadvantages than we think. Almost everybody in this world think that technology make life more convenient. It is true!!! But very few realize how technology is going to affect our lives. Technology affects us negatively by decreasing the ability of our brain, consuming more time, and decreasing the life skill ability.

Many people are not mindful of how technology is disconnecting us from one another. When people pull out smartphones during a conversation or social gathering they will cause others to feel disconnected. These phones allow people to withdraw from what is happing now and move another situation reducing the quality of the conversation that is within our reach. In the essay "Stop Googling. Let's Talk" by Sherry Turkle; she believes that we are becoming a culture of short chats versus growing our culture of thinkers that are open to sharing in constructive and meaningful conversations with one another.

People say we should participate in the national “Shut Down Your Screen Week” because as mentioned in Attached to Technology and Paying a Price by Matt Richtel, “For better or worse, the consumption of media, as varied by e-mail and TV, had exploded. In 2008, people consumed three times as much information each day as they did in 1960. Well, in 1960 the Cold War was at an all time high and honestly we had bigger things to worry about in that moment. In 2008, we had Google, we could find information from things about Mesopotamia to World War II, plus there wasn’t email in

Factors that I have not noticed before, about using technology is that I depend very much on it to know how my family is because they live far, also that being in front of the light of the phone makes your eyes tired and that could be the reason behind the headaches I have sometimes in the mornings or why I feel sleeping all day long.

The week of spring break, Adrian received a research project. This was the week of “National Shut Down Your Screen Week”, and Adrian’s parents decided that they would participate thinking it would do their family some good. Little did they know about Adrian’s research project. By participating in “National Shut Down Your Screen Week” society could use a break from technology; however, technology is part of everyone’s daily lives and it’s useful purpose’s will no longer be available to those who are in need of and strongly depend on it. The state of Arizona should not participate in “National Shut Down Your Screen Week” because having technology allows us to think better and faster, it has made our relationship more persistent and pervasive, it provides us with greater opportunities, and it has neurological advantages.

There can be multiple reasons on why technology is helpful and why it is not helpful. In “Social Media as Community” talks about the effects of social media on people’s relationship, in “Is Google Making Us Stupid” discusses the pros and cons of search engines, and in “Attached to Technology and Paying a Price” it talks about the effects of juggling various technologies on the human brain. All these articles have a lot in common like not liking technology or liking it. We should have technology because there are a lot of benefits that come from it.

Technology has become a social norm in American society. There is always some form of technology wherever you may go. Technology affects almost everyone in a negative way. While technology continues to advance, school and work performance begins to diminish. Humans tend to get sidetracked when they focus on a certain thing for too long, and this can cause a person to slack off in daily activities. Isolation is also a result of technology; it consumes up valuable time that a person may have with family members, especially if they are in the same room. There are numerous things that are unethical about today’s technology. Some feel that technology is very beneficial to our society. To an extent, it is but morally humans should do things for themselves instead of always depending on some form of electronic for assistance or to satisfy a need. Professors and staff use every aspect of technology especially in classrooms to expand learning and to circulate information. Technology should be used for certain things but not for everything because in the past we did not have access to these things. In our present day, technology is seen as a necessity instead of something that is optional.

Over the past few years, technology has become a significant part of people’s every day lives. It helps people connect with those far away, but in the process, disconnects themselves from others close with them. Technology has helped improve the lives of many people through transportation and more, but overall has torn us apart. The constant usage of technology has people’s eyes glued to a small screen; they often forget to communicate with those around them.

People can use there technology when they have nothing to do but it just keeps you away from friend and family. Technology can really be helpful for when you are lost and don't know where you are at you can use technology to communicate to get to the place you need to be at. But technology distracts people but can also help people a lot in ways.

As much as I am attached to technology I would have to say we should do shut down your screen week because the internet is what we all build upon when and no one is going out that much to get a social life, we are all getting distracted by it, and people are so addicted to it that they can't get off of it.

In conclusion we should limit our technology use because of three simple factors. Technology is ruining our social interaction with other people, Technology is huge waste of time, and because tech companies are programing our brains not our

Members of society understand, or at least have heard someone in their lives say, technology is becoming a distraction to the human population rather than an advancement. As technology has progressed, it has increasingly become a larger and more intergraded part of our everyday lives. Americans think that technology is huge today, but technology will be even more advanced in several decades. There are some clear positives to technology, such as the ease of long distances communication and the accessibility of entertainment. Despite those useful aspects and many others, there are many people that think technology has a negative effect on human interaction. The main concern many people are discussing is whether technology has negatively affected how humans socially interact. If those concerns are truly a problem, how can society fix them without stopping the advancement in technology.

Personally, I could not live without technology. I use it for almost everything I do. Some examples of technology in my life are cars, desktops, and of course, my phone. I use my phone a lot, some might use words like “religiously” or “addictively”. These people are not wrong, but there are reasons. My phone keeps notes, sets reminders, and lets people tell me that I am late for something. I use it for Boy Scouts, marching band, school, and recreational use. It has helped shape me, admittedly, into a bit of a procrastinator, however, it has also helped to keep me punctual and efficient. On the flip side, my phone can make me a bit anti-social. It lets me ignore conversations I should pay attention to, snooze alarms I should wake up to, and cheat on things I should.