The Negative Impact Of Technology In Communication And Technology

Through the years technology has been evolving increasingly, from flip phones to smartphones to watches used as phones, type writers to laptops to touch screen laptops and radios to basic televisions to big screens to flat screens and on to smart screens. Growing up, I would often spend time watching many hours of television. As a teenager, I also would begin spending more time on phone; talking, texting and video chatting. In today the world, the internet is highly influential, and is filled with a plethora of information about many things. For a long time, phones and the internet have become very problematic because of the lack of communication. Because technology may have a negative effect, it can lead to an overload from the media, to phones hindering writing skills and online communication can affect face to face communication.

If you took a look in the past and present, you would see individuals have changed big time. No time in the past has there been many innovations unfold so rapidly with endless offering solutions in the world such as music to air travel and medicine to banking to transform the way we live on today. What truly is the most significant innovation is communication technology. The establishment of modern communication technologies has reformed the way today's generation is interacting to society. On the other hand, some people feel that this kind of technology has problems, also having positive outcomes that are beneficial to the world.

Today, about 9 in 10 Americans use the Internet and 77% of Americans own a smartphone. Compare these statistics to the early 2000s when 5 in 10 Americans were online and in 2011, when only 35% of Americans owned a smartphone. Just a few decades ago, the technology we have today were merely ideas in science fiction novels or gadgets seen in a futuristic movie. There is no doubt that technology use has increased dramatically within this decade and these numbers may continue to rise as technology becomes more available to the public. Technology is slowly taking over our life and so many people have grown up surrounded by technology that a life without it is pretty much unimaginable. As technology becomes a bigger part of our daily lives, we

Imagine… a generation of kids brainwashed, scarred, and emotionally unstable; lacking key knowledge to survive in the adult world and the parents are the cause of this apocalypse. Every year parents are allowing their kids to access an electronic device at a younger age. Some children even have full access to the internet which that can arise even more complications. Electronics at an early age is an absolute terrible thing, it is bad for three reasons: it causes kids to become more electronic dependent into the future, social media can impact future jobs and college admission, social media and electronics can lead to disorders such as eating disorders, suicidal thoughts, and even sleep deprivation. These things are the reasons why technology is a bad thing.

As I said in my previous essay, not many people realize it, but the human race desperately depends on technology for existence. Although depending on things such as computers, cellular devices, and search engines comes with very helpful and developmental research, it has also come with many negative effects. Technology has literally affected all aspects of life for every living person. To the point where it has made people lazy, taken their jobs, and has even made people addicted to social networking. Some examples of problems are constant use of social media, texting and driving incidents, cyberbullying, and even cheating on tests or exams. I believe that we’ve become evermore negatively dependent on technology because humans now feel the need to socialize and connect with one another more frequently than they did before the turn of the 21st century.

Even though technology has linked people together by keeping people in touch with family, friends all the time through different sources, people pay more attention to their technological activities, lack valuable, real-life relationships with people around them, only associate with people who share the same interests, while they denigrate those who oppose their viewpoints and, lastly, people are losing communication skills because of it.

Young people spend 27 or more hours a week on the Internet (Anderson). As society moves on, technology will keep spreading and changing drastically. Technology can be found anywhere from phones, to cars that people drive everyday. With technology, writing a simple essay has never been easier. Although people view technology as an important tool of the future, technology can be more harmful to society as students become distracted, leading to health concerns, and influencing people to cyberbully.

According to Libby Larsen, the great myth of our times is that technology is communication. Technology has become a big impact on today’s world. What would you do without your phone or computer for a day, week, or month? Is pretty much something to think about. Technology in today's world, is making it easier for us to become lazy. When I was younger, I didn’t have a smartphone. I had a regular old flip phone, where the only thing you can do is call, and answer. Technology has a negative impact on our society today with the following such as lack of social skills/social bonds, lack of focusing on what's important, and health problems.

The use of technology varies amongst different age groups, often used for productive means, but there is also a negative side of technology usage. With the advancement of technology, technology is considered as survival tools for humans. These generally make life easier and helps humans be extra productive. Moreover, Adults harness the power of technology to solve complex problems. Usually, this can only be done with the aid of a computer. Another arena of technology use is for school, both, parents and teachers believe technology helps enhance learning. Although technology is meant to be useful in different scenarios, it does not always mean it is healthy. For example, as suggested in a study – “Students who use less technology, score higher on reading exam versus those who use technology above the average” (Bremmer, 2016). Society has evolved to misuse technology in many unhealthy ways; these ‘negative uses’ have many ramifications for individuals.

Many people use electronics everyday, but could the way we use technology have negative consequences on us? Before today, the effects of technology were much less apparent, but now, we are effected constantly by technology, and not in a good way. Because we use technology practically everyday, there will be negative effects caused by our everyday use, and it shows, such as lack of sleep, losing the ability to remember information as well, and becoming easily distracted.

Technology has indeed improved greatly over the past decade. New innovations have helped society in great ways such as in medicine, communication, and transportation. However, technological improvements have also had many negative effects on people like creating separation anxiety in both kids and adults, reducing creativity in humans, reducing personal privacy, reducing employment, and increasing laziness as well as dependency on technology. Currently, scientists are reaching the point where they cannot keep up with the pace of their new innovations. In other words, they are not able to control or make secure their own invention because they focus more on creating something newer and more impressive. For my research paper, however, the focus will not be on the why and how technology is becoming a bigger problem but on the fact that society is not aware of the issues that technology brings, on the ways that people can be educated about this topic, and on why they should be educated about this topic.

There’s no denying that technology has improved most people’s lives. Most people, including teens and in some cases children carry cell phones with them at all times. People no longer get lost when they travel because they have a navigational system to guide them on their phones. In case of an emergency, people be reach though different social platforms. People are depending on technology to work for them all the time, but when it doesn’t people feel lost. Smart phones are no longer used for what they were meant for, people don’t talk to each other over the phone anymore. Technology that allows communication through social media like smart phones has impacted the everyday lives of people in good ways: however, it has also been detrimental to the social lives of adolescents.

Technological advances in US industries are destroying jobs and distancing people from direct social interaction. However, technological advances have undoubtedly raised both the standard of living and the average life expectancy. Technological advancement in agriculture have resulted in increased food production, reducing the possibility of famine, even as the population continues to grow. Technology has allowed people to do both fantastic and terrible things, yet technology cannot be blamed as the cause of those good or bad results; technology is merely an instrument for the user, resulting in either good or bad outcomes.

Technology: the best thing to happen to humanity or the worst? Technology has revolutionized our generations and many to come: Over 90% of adults have their mobile device with reach of them at all times, 4 of the 7 billion people in the world has a mobile device, eBay makes on average 700$ per second, google receives over a billion searches on average per day (The Future of Technology and its Effects). Technology has helped save many people in fields like medicine and health care and in cancer alone has saved an estimated 14.5 million lives(News.” HealthCare Institute of New Jersey), but is indirectly responsible for nearly all deaths in our world. Although the negatives of all the deaths and social skills lost to technology, the good out ways the bad with advancements in medications, education, and communication.

Less than ten years ago it would have been a rarity to own a smartphone. Technology has advanced immensely over the years and completely changed the way we live today. Most people would argue that technology is beneficial and it helps make their lives much easier. Although these statements may be true, I could easily argue the contrary. Sometimes I think life would be simpler without it. Almost everything comes with its pros and cons, but this paper will soon persuade you that one outweighs the other. Technologies of all sorts have started to take over our lives; for some, such as the “Digital Natives,” technology is all we have ever known. I am dumbfounded when I see a seven year old with their own iPad; the dependency of technology is