We can’t
deny the benefits that technology offers to our daily life. Thanks to the technological progress people can
communicate even when they are in distant places and can’t see each other
personally. Web access allows communication with the whole world what is
happening in a specific place, mobilize and give information to a lot of people
in a short period of time. It gives us different ways to communicate and meet
with others. People nowadays feel more connected than ever through
technology, but everyday they have less time to meet personally. This is the other side of the coin, pointing
out that it joins us but at the
same time can isolate us because
PCs are for individual use and we spend considerable time in this isolated
communication from PC To PC, blacberry or any other device that allows us
virtual contact. Have we stop talking face to face? Not completely yet ,
but we do have decreased the amount of real contacts to look us in the eyes,
hear our voices and embrace affectionate gestures, making us miss the possibility
of perceiving important and complex details of the human communication: the tone of voice, gestures, the way of giving and receiving a
handshake, etc. Communication through
social networks has been simplified and even our way to write and
express ourselves has changed. Limiting language and richness of human
expression.
Technology can
be a helpful tool to our lives, but we have to control it and don’t let it
steal important moments that we can share with the people we care about.
Do you have
spent more time using social networks than having real human contact? Do you think that technological tools get people
closer or away from each other?
I agree, I think technology is a very helpful tool, as you said, it gives us the chance to be closer to the ones that are physically distant. We have, indeed, forgotten the people that are actually with us. It is depressing if you take a closer look to what happens around us, even in our families: having lunch and paying attention to the internet updates in the phones; its insane. Internet and every piece of technology must be used in a responsible way. It is helpful and very entertaining, but we must pay attention to our physical world too, not only the virtual one; get in touch with people.
ReplyDeleteI do agree with both of you. I believe that nothing overused can give us very nice consequences; this is the case of many technological devices we have at home or we take every single day to any place we go or visit to.
ReplyDeleteAt the beginning, the purpose of technology was to enrich people´s life. Unfortunately, in time we have not made well use of these well-known virtual tools; now we depend on our laptops or mobile phones, we need to carry them wherever we go, only to be updated , sometimes, of unimportant things like what a given person did 5 minutes ago, as an example.
Now, we prefer to spend hours and hours having private conversations on Facebook or Messenger, instead of meeting the actual person we really need to talk to. There is no human contact as you said, girls, and we are losing what really matters for all human beings: real and authentic feelings that written on our walls cannot be explicitly felt.
We are in a world that cannot live without technology. We know it is affecting us but we do not do anything to stop it, because we might hate it, but we also love it!
I strongly agree with you girls, the deeper problem is not technology itself, because as Loreto said, it’s a very helpful tool, but the real problem is when we misuse it. Nowadays children can spend three or more hours a day in front of the computer or the television, and that’s definitely not healthy for their physical and psychological health, and in many cases parents don’t even know what they are watching or doing. We also spend hours surfing on the internet and many times we put aside our duties because of it.Therefore it is really important for us to be conscious of our use of those tools in order to create an appropriate balance that will lead us to finally use these tools to make our lives easier instead of harder
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