Technology: Are we really moving forward?
By: Nicolle Cabret
 Is technology really an advance in society? Is it really enhancing communications? Well, we have to admit that technology has contributed immensely in the field of medicine and science in general. With its progress professionals have been able to found different cures to deadly diseases before, and have developed numerous vaccines that protect children practically since birth. But, what happens with technology in terms of relationships? Ever wondered how technology has affected your relationships? How it has affected interpersonal relationships around you? How do you relate with new friends? Do you spend the same amount of time physically with your acquaintances as you used to? And what about the activities or pass times of children today? Is it in some way similar to your childhood? The stark reality is that it is not. With time, thanks to the great progress of technology, interpersonal relationships, human relations occur between families, friends, acquaintances, have been gradually deteriorating. In the beginning, with the creation of the well-known online chats, people began to decrease the time spent physically with their acquaintances. | Everything was about the chats. Then with the latest advances in phones with text messages, the Internet, chat, face time, and all kinds of facilitators of communication, the need for people to meet and share quality time together, passed to second place. What technology has really brought upon us is isolation, individualism, and the deterioration of socializing skills. People tend to get so involved with technology, that they develop some kind of dependence. Rather than a hobby, something so simply like surfing through the internet has become an addiction. Many people could spend all day on the web. Others can’t go anywhere without their mobile. Have you had a doctor’s appointment recently? Just for the fun of it go to a doctor’s office and analyze people’s behavior. Nobody talks anymore, not even to say hello. What about a pediatrician’s office? Kids don’t interact with each other anymore; they rather play individually with their parent’s smartphones all day or at least for a prolonged time. That is what technology is doing to us. We promote individualism and that is what we are teaching our children too. People, families, | couples, friends, nobody sits together at a table without ONCE checking their phone. Nowadays you can see couples having dinner together but BOTH, at the same time, texting or posting something on Facebook. I mean, come on, what is wrong with you people. Technology has also helped us become lazy. When students have to do a research project, do they go to libraries? Uh, no, since everything is in the internet, no need to touch a book. When a mother has dinner ready does she go upstairs to call her kids? Don’t think so, there are text messages to do that. The point is technology represents progress in many fields of study and in some social events too. However, the sudden and massive development of technology is bringing people apart. People don’t seem to have limits and have a tendency to become obsessed with the use of gadgets. As a consequence, the quality of human interaction is deteriorating more and more every time. The Bottom Line Psychology Today |
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