With the advancement of technology people begin to depend on it. We communicate through texting or calling rather than talking, this disrupts our ability to communicate effectively. We tend to care more about how many likes and followers we get on social media than the actual people we meet. Some adults agree with the statement of technology making us more alone. Michael Gonchar, author of the article “Does Technology Make Us More Alone?” informs us about how teems never look up from their phones. Madalyn, one of the subjects being interviewed informs us that even her mom is guilty of this, “My mom is always staring down at her smartphone, never listening” We are so attached to seeing what’s on the internet that we don’t even notice
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Not only does it harm you mentally, but physically. Psychologist Gene Block, at UCLA, informed us that the most dramatic effect of technology is the reduction in sleep. It used to be that the average amount of sleep a person would get was eight hours, now it has decreased to seven and below. People would rather stay up late spending too much time on their phones or other forms of technology rather than getting a rightful amount of sleep. Psychologist carl Jung believed that there was an imbalance between our use of technology. Jung believed the effect of technology depends on how we use it. If we have a balance of our usage of technology than, than maybe our social skills would be different, the way we interpret things would different, our sense of rationalism would be greater.Author Sherry Turkle informs us that with our increasing usage of technology we begin to depend on it drastically. It’s a way for us to have a sense of control. The problem with this though, is that It takes away our sense of reality. We May be around other people but we never really connect, “ We begin to hide from each other, even as we’re constantly connected to each other”. When we use use technology our social skills are disrupted. We end up hating having a conversation face-to-face because it’s to
Not only does it harm you mentally, but physically. Psychologist Gene Block, at UCLA, informed us that the most dramatic effect of technology is the reduction in sleep. It used to be that the average amount of sleep a person would get was eight hours, now it has decreased to seven and below. People would rather stay up late spending too much time on their phones or other forms of technology rather than getting a rightful amount of sleep. Psychologist carl Jung believed that there was an imbalance between our use of technology. Jung believed the effect of technology depends on how we use it. If we have a balance of our usage of technology than, than maybe our social skills would be different, the way we interpret things would different, our sense of rationalism would be greater.Author Sherry Turkle informs us that with our increasing usage of technology we begin to depend on it drastically. It’s a way for us to have a sense of control. The problem with this though, is that It takes away our sense of reality. We May be around other people but we never really connect, “ We begin to hide from each other, even as we’re constantly connected to each other”. When we use use technology our social skills are disrupted. We end up hating having a conversation face-to-face because it’s to