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The rapid expansion of technological advancement is engulfing our culture. The author of IRL Fetish, Nathan Jurgenson argues that people have a weird interest in the world of offline. Technological advances are leading people into the realm of online, but Jurgenson also realizes the glorification of movement to offline. People who believe online world is destroying the real-life connection and many writers lament, “Writer after writer laments the loss of a sense of disconnection, of boredom (now

Men who were exposed to electromagnetic radiation from laptop Wi-Fi for four hours had sperm with DNA damage and decreased motility. Technology can be good but as the saying goes, a little too much of something can be bad. Technology is great but can have a huge impact on an individual. Too much technology can even affect our families and the way we communicate and socialize with them. All of this can also affect you in the long run. How would someone’s life be if all they do is surround their self

An Article “Does Reading Literature Make Us Better People?” by Annie Murphy Paul states that Deep reading is an exercise from the brain will increase” our real life capacity for empathy”(Paul). This is due to the amount of the past generations succeeding in life by deep reading book. Also by being able to succeed in their studies than students who usually read online fail to because the amount of distractions that seem to pop up their view. Paul wants to be able to show the differences in people's

Are online friends “real friends”? Many people think they are not. However, is that the truth? No, the real truth is that online friends are good and real friends, and important to have. Of the numerous reasons as to why they are important, three of them stand out from the rest. A sum of those three reasons, in no particular order, is that having online friends can help people be more social, it can help those who cannot make friends be able to make friends due to a number of reasons, and it increases

People are spending too much time online The Internet has dramatically changed our lives over the past few decades. Through Internet technology innovation and development, the Internet provides a lot of benefits to people's life; doing business online, shopping online, playing video games and so on. With social media, people can see what is happening all over the world, searching information, resources they need, communicating with friends or family oversea. Nowadays, Internet is closely

When it comes to modern technology, do we always think about the effect it has on us and our relationships or do we just roll with it because everyone else seems to be doing it and that it’s trendy? There are many ways that one can choose to find that partner in life or just someone to hang out with that makes us feel good about ourselves. This is what inspired Julia Spira to become an online dating expert that all started over 20+ years ago when she first appeared in CyberDating.com. She had later

In the movie on Black Mirror from “Hate in the Nation” I’m going talk about the issue discussed throughout the senses. From the movie, it was about a guy that invented the drones for he could travel and track people anywhere from social media. Garett Scholes tries to kill three main people they are Joanne Power, Tusk and Clara Meades. These three people they have no clue that they are going died to death as long as they are just living in life and doing whatever they wish to their own self until

Technology has been a central topic of today’s society and is one of the most commonly used luxuries we have at this age. Yet the benefits and disadvantages have been through much debate over the years. “More technology or less?” one might ask themselves. However, when you look at the facts the answer is clearly less would benefit us all. When in a room with someone face to face interaction is key. One should not be felt separated by such blockades as phones. Technology makes us more alone due to

By taking this class, I have learned about the stories of our childhood and how they affect us in many ways. They allow for children and adults to connect with one another while reading a certain story. This allows both the parent and the child the ability to wind down from a stressful day just by reading. I learned about how stories make us who we are and help us escape into a different reality. Stories can elicit emotional responses from us, help us deal with certain problems in our lives, and

Finding out how cruel society is at a young age is a lot to take in but gives so much in return. In the book To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, two characters, Jem and Scout, learn many valuable lessons that do not necessarily come from school education. Throughout the book, valuable lessons Jem and Scout learn are found more in real-life rather than in a school atmosphere. The school life of Jem and Scout is not mentioned in the book that much, but from the scenes where they are mentioned, it