Often too frequently, teenagers are
blamed for always being into their phones, texting away, and getting
too carried away with their social life, but the reality is that not just teens
do this, many adults do the same. Technology has run the daily
lives of humans today. It seems that the lives of humans have been perhaps
too influenced by technology. We are ignoring the obvious question
around us: is too much technology bad? Yes, technology has positively influenced
and taken over the world in which we live in today, but it is the negative
effects of this life-changing event that we try to hide and constantly avoid.
One of the negative sides of
technology is that there are so many accidents today that are caused by texting
while driving (6 Bad Habits). The highly advanced technology which we are
confronted with each day of our lives is so powerful that it is a distraction
to us even in occasions that require the best of our attention. The temptation
that overpowers one to take their focus off the road and hands off the steering
wheel to reply to a quick text jeopardizes the lives of not only the driver,
but also those around them. Eventually, this chain reaction leads to a tragic
car accident. Some people claim that they take their focus off the road for
just a few seconds. Those few seconds can make a great chaos in just a split of
those seconds.
Meanwhile having a conversation, it
is not rare for one, if not all, members of the conversation to be on their
phones texting away (6 Bad Habits). Too much technology can and has been proven
to be negatively effective on society. Humans were born with the ability to
communicate as the main characteristic of what makes them human. Conversations
today are no longer face to face conversations or communication by mailing
letters. Instead, the modern-day society in which we live in has changed our
way of communication by adopting technology as a way to speak for us. Sending
letters by mail for communication is no longer popular the way it was in the
1800s. Now typed words are slowly replacing the hand written, and most importantly
the verbal words of which we use for communication. Text conversations through
texting or social media, are now the "new way to have a
conversation," with the person next to you.
Furthermore, the English language is
now being replaced by phonetic spelling and random string of letters (6 Bad
Habits). The improper use of spelling and grammar used when texting or
communicating via the internet has changed the usage of the English language.
Too often people are mistakenly spelling words wrong on their messages. These
simple mistakes have influenced the way of writing, because we are
progressively becoming used to this new and exciting way of using personally
customized spelling in our messages, as a habit. Without knowing we start using
our texting language as an everyday language, as if it were completely normal.
The common use of English grammar is slowly changing, because as technology
progressively develops, the formal and intended use of the language has been
modified to the language we use today. Society has accepted the usage of
acronyms as a way of saving time. Acronyms, which are faster to type than spell
out the actual word, are now replacing many words. What is there for the
future, some may ask one another? Soon words will no longer exist and could
possibly be replaced by codes used to communicate messages from one another,
who knows.
In conclusion, all of these habits
have been adjusted to the preferences of society. It is no longer the meaning
of the message that is important, it seems today that the matter of time it
takes to send the message whether clear or not, is what's most important. The
amount of time we spend on our phones is not enough to satisfy society. If it
were up to us, it can be assured that the majority of people would dedicate
their time and energy to their technological devices. Is too much technology a
bad thing? Is your social life more important than spending quality time with
your family, or taking the time to just sit back and enjoy your day? Perhaps
too much technology may not be as bad as it sounds, or so we tend to see it
that way. After all, it's only the beginning of technology and there's much
more to explore as it develops. Perhaps
one day we will wake up to a whole new world from which we went to sleep knowing,
a whole new atmosphere run by computerized objects.
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