Being Plugged In Research Paper

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With the fast development of the Internet and digital space, a person can easily addict to being “plugged in” in this modern society. There are many electronic devices around us so people at first learn how to use and gradually get addicted with them. Addiction to being “plugged in” is a serious problem because of the negative effect from it such as health, the danger side of the Internet. Myself, as a millennial, who was born in a developing generation, can also easily get addicted to being “plugged in” but I know when and where to control my use in electronic devices. According to the website MentalHealth.net, addiction is when “a person compulsive dependent upon a particular kind of stimulation to the point where obtaining a steady supply …show more content…

When the class get bored, I usually just take out my phone to play around with it. It is the habit that I should not do in class. Not having my phone in class that day made me realize that I can focus more in class without my electronic devices. There is the time that I feel I am not the only one who addict of electronic devices. When I was in discussion with my friends, they kept checking their phone and did not completely focus on our conservation. It made me think about how electronic devices affect the communication between me and my friends. I can understand the lack of communication clearly on the day of the experiment since I did not have my electronic device. When I look back to the experiment, the reason that my experiment failed is not that I cannot stay unplug for twenty-four hours but I need my laptop for my school work. I realized that there are things that I have to depend on my electronic devices without other solutions. Times had changed and everybody changes. Electronic devices become important part of our lives. This also applies to myself. My notes and homework are all online and I need to access to those work through Internet by using my laptop. No matter how hard I try to unplug myself, I still need to use my electronic devices for my …show more content…

The private information can be shared online. People, who are addicted to being “plugged in” mostly spend their time online, can be shared their own personal information with other people around the world. The advertising industry can take advantage of this in order to promote for their product. “Websites, advertisers, and a panoply of other companies are continuously assessing the activities, intentions, and backgrounds of virtually everyone online; even our social relationships and comments are being carefully and continuously analyzed.” (396) With people constantly on the Internet, our private information can be found easily by other people and be analyzed without our notice. In my experience, I had seen that when I go on a website and I found out that the advertisements are usually the website that I do online shopping. This makes me wonder why the advertisements are like that. I understand that it is impossible to hide everything from the Internet. Our information can be found easily for other’s advertising purpose. Because we do not understand that how the information is shared and who is using our information, it is dangerous because we do not know what would happen. Beside how our personal information can be analyzed, there is still another danger of the Internet. “Malicious threats that are going from the inside out, a global disease with many symptoms that is buttressed by

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