Technology
Christian Solis P.2
The Negatives of Techonoly When social networking involed face to face conversations, twitter was the noise a bird made. Apple was a fruit, cookies were snacks, and a mouse was only an animal. About 200 years ago the only way poeple could commuicate was face to face. Cellphones, video calling, texting, none of these exsited. Nowadays teenagers are relying more and more on technolgy when it comes to social interactions, relationships, and most importantly school work. Thats why i feel technolgy is affeting teenagers negativley. One of the enormous down falls on teenagers and the use of technolgy is instant messaging. Weather it is on a social network site or texting someone, technology has taken away personal and intimate conversations. Meeting someone online rather then running into them at a park or a store take away the opportunity to know the person on a personal level. It may also effect the way you speak. For example if you're texting someone with text terms or social networking terms, When you get face to face with someone you might mess up on your words. Or you may mess up on a essay that you're writing for one of your classes. Another downfall of techonlogy is that it is extremely distracting the teenage population (Growing Up Digital Wired for Distraction, Matt Richtel, page 1) An example of this would be if you have twitter or facebook downloaded on your phone, or have an extra tab pulled up on your computer. It could easily distract you everytime you get a notification, because you would be so tempted to look at the notification. Another big affect that technology is having on teens is that it is not making them think as much as they should have to. (Is Google Making Us Stupid, Nicholas Carr, Pg.6) Espically with school work or homework if kids cant figure out the answer they can just type it in on goolge and find the answer. Which in my eyes is kind of pathetic because thats what school is for, to think and learn,
The Negatives of Techonoly When social networking involed face to face conversations, twitter was the noise a bird made. Apple was a fruit, cookies were snacks, and a mouse was only an animal. About 200 years ago the only way poeple could commuicate was face to face. Cellphones, video calling, texting, none of these exsited. Nowadays teenagers are relying more and more on technolgy when it comes to social interactions, relationships, and most importantly school work. Thats why i feel technolgy is affeting teenagers negativley. One of the enormous down falls on teenagers and the use of technolgy is instant messaging. Weather it is on a social network site or texting someone, technology has taken away personal and intimate conversations. Meeting someone online rather then running into them at a park or a store take away the opportunity to know the person on a personal level. It may also effect the way you speak. For example if you're texting someone with text terms or social networking terms, When you get face to face with someone you might mess up on your words. Or you may mess up on a essay that you're writing for one of your classes. Another downfall of techonlogy is that it is extremely distracting the teenage population (Growing Up Digital Wired for Distraction, Matt Richtel, page 1) An example of this would be if you have twitter or facebook downloaded on your phone, or have an extra tab pulled up on your computer. It could easily distract you everytime you get a notification, because you would be so tempted to look at the notification. Another big affect that technology is having on teens is that it is not making them think as much as they should have to. (Is Google Making Us Stupid, Nicholas Carr, Pg.6) Espically with school work or homework if kids cant figure out the answer they can just type it in on goolge and find the answer. Which in my eyes is kind of pathetic because thats what school is for, to think and learn,