Technology and Human Connection: A Double-Edged Sword

Technology was created to provide simpler methods for us to accomplish our task. With the help of technology we are able to provide faster and efficient services. With affect of faster connection, it can be said that communicating with others has become more efficient and simple. Thus we begin to question ourselves, it the simpler method really the best methods. Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, are some of the major social networking system that most people in the world know of. These networks are said to promote to help faster connection between people, but in some cases the faster connection is what keeps two people away from each other. With fast acting speed of the information being passed around in the World Wide Web, it is understandable

In this YouTube video he describes how our current generation is so caught up in the current technology or current style and it is our communication skill that is declining. The way we communicate through our twits and online chats has become a barrier that separates us from reality; it creates a new image. He describes the technology as an illusion and when we look up from our screens we are full of confusion, thus describing that with our focus on the fantasy of the internet that it clouds our judgment on what is reality. Mr.Turk argues that with the growing technology we tend focus more on our self appearance and thus become self-conscious about everything, with information being spread so vastly to the wide public it is no wonder that we look at ourselves and compare them to some unknown stranger. He also brings up the idea of online chatting, in our current world we tend to talk through a screen instead of face-to-face talk. By talking through a screen the same emotions expressed through emoji is not the same as the expression of the actual person. These internet and online social network may bring the community together easier but through that we lose something much more important; much more important than efficiency or even simplicity, it is the emotions shared between people that we lose. The connection that helps bring people closer to each other, the feelings and sympathy we gain as the talking begins, the emotions of sadness when chaos strikes, the feeling of happiness as your friend is getting married, these emotions that we tend to leave behind for the sake of progress, for the sake of improvement. Which in the end we ask ourselves is it really worth it? To lose all those emotions that deem us as humane, when in the end of all these “progress” what is left inside is nothing