Informative Essay: Does Technology Make You More Alone?

Garo Berberian Freshman English Q Instructor: Ryan McGohon Due date: 11/5/2015

Does technology make you more alone?

With the entry of technology, humankind built up the capacity to communicate around the world. However, there were many debates whether technology changed the way of socializing with people. Despite the fact that technology has its positive sides, it ought to be found in a negative light. As technology made people's lives easier, they lost their social skills. The problem is that Nowadays' generation is failing to understand the epidemic of communicating via internet and its side effects.

Social network, also referred to as a virtual community, is a platform that unites individuals to communicate. For instance, using it to email co-workers or instant message friends. Although it makes people's lives easier, it serves as an adverse tool of communication. The individual won't have face to

face interaction with others as the communication will be limited. thus people lose their social skills. Furthermore, The way of socializing with people can be changed due to internet slang terms such as LOL (laugh out loud) which many of us use in real life communication. If we speak to somebody who does not know the term, will have no clue what it implies, so it is the same as talking another dialect. This clearly illustrates how easily minor expressions disturb face to face communication.
A research by the Leeds University team claimed that People who overuse the internet, discover mental illness in which they feel unhappy and anxious.

The experiment was based on 1319 responses to an online questionnaire. People were asked how much they used the internet and for what purposes. The respondents were aged 16 to 51, with an average age of 21. The authors found that a small number of users had developed a compulsive internet habit, replacing real life social interaction with online chat rooms and social networking sites. They classed 18 respondents, 1.2% of the total as Internet addicts. This group spent more time on sex, gambling and online community websites. "This study reinforces the public speculation that over-engaging in websites that serve to replace normal social function might be linked to psychological disorders like depression and addiction."

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Many of us don't understand the measure of time that we are utilizing mechanical items, for example, portable PCs, cellular telephones. Those hours that are spent in innovation, could be spent in a more compelling manner. Will future eras be experiencing lonliness?If we deelpy think about that, overtime, we are choosing screens over individuals.
According to Mary Franke, she believes that the onset of technological development made us more connected via social network sites such as Facebook, Google, where one can share a post or text with just a click. However, if we deeply think about that, having a conversation via internet is different from real communication as we're choosing screens over personal interactions, excluding the use of body language and eye contact, which in fact, effects the way we communicate.
In conclusion, technology makes us isolated from real human interaction. Technology does not involve close contact as the conversation electronically eliminates the use of body language, eye contact. Anxiety takes place when spending many hours in front of computer and consequently, we find difficulty with communicating in real life. Although technology makes us connected internationally, it is not a good option to improve social interaction.