Black Hole Of Technology Essay

Have you ever been on a website that gave you false information? This is not improving our lives at all or making us smarter because we believe the information is true until someone tells us it’s not. Then you have to forget what you been thinking the whole time and relearn it all over. This is why I believe that electronic and online access doesn’t improve our lives. Social networking usually can lead to anxiety, low self-confidence, and loneliness in teens according to page 230 in the textbook. There are two different stories that I will talk about called “Feathered Friends” (pg 195) and “The Black Hole of Technology” (pg 215) and these two stories showed how this technology fails us a lot. In this essay I will give you many examples and

The girl in the story named Leena Khan and her friend’s used their phones and tech a lot. As her friend states “Did you guys see what Miley Cyrus posted.”(pg 215) This shows that their friends are always on their phones which means they are on top of every post she has. They are relying on tech to give them every post and look at every instagram post. What if their phones broke and they weren’t able to look at any post? They would be desperate and would not know what to do. This is an example from the story how they rely on technology very much. Leena finally realizes that you don’t need a phone to catch up on your favorite celebrity or anything else. She notices at the Cambodian Temple where everyone was happy, these people were happy without tech! As said in the story “Then I noticed something I hadn’t before: no one had a cellphone on them.”(pg 216) She was missing out on all this liveness because she was in the black hole of technology. When they first arrived at the Cambodian Temple, Leena tried to sneak her phone out of her pocket, but her dad snatched it out of her hands. He wanted her to look around her to see one of the most ancient wonders in the world. This is why in “The Black Hole of technology Leena and her friends rely on tech too much or get distracted by