As many people would agree and would say is obvious is that technology is a double edged sword. I can remember computers and cell phones being in my life since... well since I coud first remember anything. So technology has been ever present and rapidly growing especially through our generation. Almost everyday I am amazed by some new gadget or app and its capabilities to do the most unthinkable things. Who would have thought that one day robots would perform surgery or that music would go from playing out of a device almost as big as a tuba to something around the size of a quarter. Technology does so much good for us today whetheer it be educating, entertaining, or saving lives, but so often technology has a negative impact on our lives. One of the most common negative impacts primarily on teenagers is technologies ability to distract and cause procrastination to the extreme. Facebook, Twitter, other social networks, cell phones, and even simple T.V. are all great but I can almost bet there is not one teenager who begins their homework out side of school without first checking at least one social networking site, and usually once on them we will read posts and view photos for up to an hour or more, then we will see a link someone posted of a youtube video, and before we know it we are watching funny videos of cats on youtube and its 10:00 p.m. and we still haven't started homework. Although we were probably entertained for a while we get so distracted by technology we slack on homework and our grades aren't as good as they could be. Technology is not only sometimes disttracting and bad for us in terms of getting good grades but also there is so much evil through technology. On the internet people are able to say things they wouldn't say to someones face degrading people so much and going so far as to cause peole to commit suicide. There are many other things that are to many morally wrong through technology but thats a long story and I'm kind of getting offf topic here. Yes, technology tends to get in our way a lot failed e-mails, messed up computers and phones often cause missed assignments and miscommunication. It's sometimes seasier to just write a paper by hand, but nowadats everything must be typed and digital just as this blog is. I'm sure most of us don't bother to get onto this blog and do these posts, but often, especially to those who don't have direct acces to a computer doing a post like this could be a hassle. Overall technology is awesome and so great but often, distracting, degrading, and quite a hassle.
Saturday, September 8, 2012
technolgy good and bad
As many people would agree and would say is obvious is that technology is a double edged sword. I can remember computers and cell phones being in my life since... well since I coud first remember anything. So technology has been ever present and rapidly growing especially through our generation. Almost everyday I am amazed by some new gadget or app and its capabilities to do the most unthinkable things. Who would have thought that one day robots would perform surgery or that music would go from playing out of a device almost as big as a tuba to something around the size of a quarter. Technology does so much good for us today whetheer it be educating, entertaining, or saving lives, but so often technology has a negative impact on our lives. One of the most common negative impacts primarily on teenagers is technologies ability to distract and cause procrastination to the extreme. Facebook, Twitter, other social networks, cell phones, and even simple T.V. are all great but I can almost bet there is not one teenager who begins their homework out side of school without first checking at least one social networking site, and usually once on them we will read posts and view photos for up to an hour or more, then we will see a link someone posted of a youtube video, and before we know it we are watching funny videos of cats on youtube and its 10:00 p.m. and we still haven't started homework. Although we were probably entertained for a while we get so distracted by technology we slack on homework and our grades aren't as good as they could be. Technology is not only sometimes disttracting and bad for us in terms of getting good grades but also there is so much evil through technology. On the internet people are able to say things they wouldn't say to someones face degrading people so much and going so far as to cause peole to commit suicide. There are many other things that are to many morally wrong through technology but thats a long story and I'm kind of getting offf topic here. Yes, technology tends to get in our way a lot failed e-mails, messed up computers and phones often cause missed assignments and miscommunication. It's sometimes seasier to just write a paper by hand, but nowadats everything must be typed and digital just as this blog is. I'm sure most of us don't bother to get onto this blog and do these posts, but often, especially to those who don't have direct acces to a computer doing a post like this could be a hassle. Overall technology is awesome and so great but often, distracting, degrading, and quite a hassle.
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