Technology Helping or Hindering

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Imagine getting a text saying, “I’m sorry; it’s not working for me anymore.” You just got dumped over text message. You get a horrible feeling in your chest; you never got to see their face. There is some satisfactory to seeing if they had some remorse for it, but that never happened. People take advantage of the fact that you can avoid confrontation by using technology so they may not have to feel just as bad as that person you sent the text to. We love using technology now days, but it could be hindering more than it’s helping. It takes away so much human contact that so many desperately need. But it’s not really the bad guy in this whole thing. Children and teenagers love their technology obviously. They get on Facebook, they get to text, it’s fun. However, this takes away communication with their parents and takes up family time. “It is that day and age. Just because we are all under the same roof, doesn’t mean we are together.” (Huntley) If we can’t communicate with our families, who can we really communicate with? It takes away a very important social skill that all of us need to thrive in this society. If we don’t have this skill it will make it harder for us to talk in person, and will have less friends are people to talk to. Face to face contact is an essential for building any relationship. Relationships don’t only require just talking to each other. There are so many other components to it than that. Body language tells many things about a person. Paying attention to body language is useful to know how that person reacts to a certain situation; sure you don’t know exactly what they’re thinking, but you can get a good idea. Over text this process of looking and hearing a person’s tone doesn’t happen. It could make a si... ... middle of paper ... ...hnology isn’t necessarily the bad guy in all of this. It’s the people that use it. Saying technology hurts people doesn’t make sense; that would be saying that a pencil can write a paper for me if I tell it to. It’s the person behind that screen that is doing the hurting, because it is their choice to do what they do on it. Sure, technology makes it easier for them to make a decision to not show their face, and they are still the one using it for that purpose. Works Cited Huntley, Amy.”Tips for Familes and Technology.” NP, September 27, 2013. Web. 16 March 2014. “Is Technology Ruining Your Relationship?” EliteDaily,2014.Web.14 March 2014 Nilles, Melissa.”Technology is Destroying the Quality of Human Interaction.” UCSB’s Weekly Student-Run Newspaper, 2012.Web. 7 March 2014. “Relationships and Technology.” Is Texting Ruining Romance?”.Huff Post, Web. 16 March 2014.

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