"The Myth of Technology"
Think back to your great-great-grandparents. Think back to the years they lived and how different life was for them. Things seem so different these days to even compare. Almost everyone was slim, enjoying family quality time, working at reasonable hours and mainly they weren't stuck to a television or computer screen. As much as I love being able to communicate easier with friends through texts, messages on facebook and watch my favourite shows, it leaves us dry of real-life communication skills.
When texting, you lose sense of the body-language, which can really make it hard to understand exactly how a person is saying what they are. An exclamation point can come across as anger, but maybe the person is really just excited. It's also hard to get eye-contact, which is a main thing when it comes to finding out if someone's telling you the truth or not. Technology has left us to do nothing but talk electronically to each other, almost like robots. To top off texting, there's facebook, one of today's most addicted websites for not just teens anymore, but adult's as well. It's really taking over today's reality. My mother, who hardly even knows how to use a computer, is now on facebook and owns a cell phone. Even my grandparents have cell phones. Things have changed so much since the early days.
Everyone is getting obsessive over electronics. It's causing us to put off school work, and when we do do our work, especially on the computer, we easily get sidetracked onto something we shouldn't be on. I know so many people that will freak out because they can get on to facebook to check their Farmville (a new electronic farm life on facebook.) It's ridiculous to me. You look back and see that everyone used to be thin and energetic, now nobody will get up and do something because they are too busy with the computer causing them to literally eat in-front of the screen and gain weight. I've witnessed people hold off chores, homework and family time, just to sit online, not even for just a little amount of time, but twelve hours on the computer at a time. Not only is that bad for you physically, the amount of electricity being used will really add up.
Electronics are causing people to be more lazy, but some of them, are causing people to work harder. There are new appliances out in restaurants to help cooks out, but they have to learn how to use it and work non-stop to actually use it and clean every machine up. Mechanics also have to work really hard as well, due to the constant new upgrade on a machine. It's insane how many times they can change a simple machine.
I-pods and Blackberries are also things I could never understand, or really want to invest in. Yes, I love music and would love to carry it around with me everywhere I went, but there are constantly upgrades to them, it's almost a waste to buy it. Everytime Apple comes out and says that they have just invented the best I-pod yet, you automatically want it and could care-less about the one you just bought last week. Blackberries aswell, I've never been so confused as to what the name of a phone is. Blackberry Curve, Blackberry Bold, Blackberry Storm, etc. It's getting to be too much at this point. The constant upgrades, is a pitch they use to make more money. The only thing they really ever change is the size of the phone and the name, while I-pods will change the amount of space it can hold. Everyone needs to stop buying into these electronics and realize that what they have is fine, especially if it still works.
Overall, I think that electronics are messing us up. It's physically hurting us, mentally draining us and making us less perceptive of how to hold real conversations and confrontations. I think that if we didn't have so many different versions of Windows and so many different phones and music devices, we would be able to get out more often and actually do something with our lives. Yes, computers are great for school work and checking up on your profiles once-in-a-while, like a normal person should, but over doing it by spending twelve or more hours a day infront of an electronic, is definitely the electronics controlling us, not us controlling the electronics.
When texting, you lose sense of the body-language, which can really make it hard to understand exactly how a person is saying what they are. An exclamation point can come across as anger, but maybe the person is really just excited. It's also hard to get eye-contact, which is a main thing when it comes to finding out if someone's telling you the truth or not. Technology has left us to do nothing but talk electronically to each other, almost like robots. To top off texting, there's facebook, one of today's most addicted websites for not just teens anymore, but adult's as well. It's really taking over today's reality. My mother, who hardly even knows how to use a computer, is now on facebook and owns a cell phone. Even my grandparents have cell phones. Things have changed so much since the early days.
Everyone is getting obsessive over electronics. It's causing us to put off school work, and when we do do our work, especially on the computer, we easily get sidetracked onto something we shouldn't be on. I know so many people that will freak out because they can get on to facebook to check their Farmville (a new electronic farm life on facebook.) It's ridiculous to me. You look back and see that everyone used to be thin and energetic, now nobody will get up and do something because they are too busy with the computer causing them to literally eat in-front of the screen and gain weight. I've witnessed people hold off chores, homework and family time, just to sit online, not even for just a little amount of time, but twelve hours on the computer at a time. Not only is that bad for you physically, the amount of electricity being used will really add up.
Electronics are causing people to be more lazy, but some of them, are causing people to work harder. There are new appliances out in restaurants to help cooks out, but they have to learn how to use it and work non-stop to actually use it and clean every machine up. Mechanics also have to work really hard as well, due to the constant new upgrade on a machine. It's insane how many times they can change a simple machine.
I-pods and Blackberries are also things I could never understand, or really want to invest in. Yes, I love music and would love to carry it around with me everywhere I went, but there are constantly upgrades to them, it's almost a waste to buy it. Everytime Apple comes out and says that they have just invented the best I-pod yet, you automatically want it and could care-less about the one you just bought last week. Blackberries aswell, I've never been so confused as to what the name of a phone is. Blackberry Curve, Blackberry Bold, Blackberry Storm, etc. It's getting to be too much at this point. The constant upgrades, is a pitch they use to make more money. The only thing they really ever change is the size of the phone and the name, while I-pods will change the amount of space it can hold. Everyone needs to stop buying into these electronics and realize that what they have is fine, especially if it still works.
Overall, I think that electronics are messing us up. It's physically hurting us, mentally draining us and making us less perceptive of how to hold real conversations and confrontations. I think that if we didn't have so many different versions of Windows and so many different phones and music devices, we would be able to get out more often and actually do something with our lives. Yes, computers are great for school work and checking up on your profiles once-in-a-while, like a normal person should, but over doing it by spending twelve or more hours a day infront of an electronic, is definitely the electronics controlling us, not us controlling the electronics.
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