Article Complications And Negative Effects Of Technology On Society

There are plenty of articles where authors are discussing either positive or negative sides of using the technology. One of the articles that was written about the impact of technology is “Negative Effects of Technology on Society “ by Nables Reynoldsburg. The author generally discusses negative sides of technology and how it affects society as it captures too much time of our daily life. However,writer fails to persuade the audience in some parts of the article,because some claims are solely based on personal opinion. Reynoldsburg states that recent developments in technology leads to social isolation. People lose the ability to communicate with one another. Moreover, the internet disturbs person's way of living and

For example, when I read the title of the article I supposed that I was going to read about the technology itself but not about the Internet. Apparently the concept of technology is too big, and the Internet is only one small part of the technology. It would be wrong to write down about the Internet and name it as a whole technology. Since the author mainly talks about the Internet through the paper it is confusing for the reader to see the title as “negative sides of technology”. Another point is that Nables jumps from one idea to another, causing abrupt transition. For instance, he talks about society’s social and personal behavior affected by the Internet then ,suddenly without any smooth transition, he changes the topic to gadgets and evaluation of the new function regarding safety of mobile

Then he provides the audience with a few examples such as two decades ago, we had to write a letter in order to communicate with others far away or we had to wait for a very long period of time for missed TV shows and so on. Indeed, in some parts Reynoldsburg’s arguments look more like personal opinion rather than well stated arguments gained through research. Another key point of the article is that the writer is sure that communication via social networks or messages negatively affects on relationship between people. He states that there should be more face-to-face communication rather than communication through the devices. On the whole, Internet connects not only friends with each other but the different societies as well. Individuals from various societies of the world meet in the Internet. Could we make friends from South Korea two decades ago? It is obvious, that the answer is no. What is important to realize is that in some cases using devices is much more useful for the society than writing