In this day and age, technology is essential to our everyday lives. Or so it seems. It is like we cannot go a day without using some electronic device. It could be a computer, phone, tablet, television, gaming system, etc. Why, though, is it so important that we HAVE to have these devices in our lives? To "survive" day to day? They are quite literally taking over our lives.
Technology has seemed to have changed the way we think about certain topics and how we see the world. Social media is a huge impact on this factor. With apps that can edit pictures in a matter of minutes and then posted just as quick, society then thinks that is how the world, other people, and even individual events look or seem to look. In reality, that is not what happened or how something/someone looks.
Another example, memes are everywhere now. They can be hilarious, serious, or just dumb for the fun of it. Some of them, people re-post because they think that the meme has special abilities like money in the near future, it doesn’t have that ability. Others think because they are true statements, they usually aren’t true. Others have gifs or videos embedded in them and they are just for laughs and usually they are quite funny. Society lives for these things, it seems. Now let’s take YouTube. Young people are becoming instantly famous and rich by either being discovered or just by being employed to make videos. This, I think, is a great thing but doesn’t technology ever get to be too much?
I admit, I do get on social media and use technology, a lot. The thing is, is it gets boring. There is only so much that can be done with technology. I will, also, admit that technology has helped us advance. In some manners, technology has not helped in the greatest ways but in other ways it has. Technology is a doubled edge sword, in that way. We are way too connected to the need of having an electronic device on us. If you lost your phone, you would panic. If you can’t check social media, a game, or email, you panic. As many have heard before, it has connected us but disconnected us, at the same time.
We, as a society, have the ability to talk to anyone, play a game, and watch anything at our fingertips but that has diminished our abilities to connect to one another, in person. Communication skills that are essential seem to diminish on the most basic level. There needs to be a balance between advancement in technology and basic humanistic reality. Society has only cared about the next great technological advancement without realizing that maybe we need to slow down and look around us a little bit more. Not everything has to be posted online. Life can be lived without the rest of the world knowing. Life can be enjoyed with a little less electronic interaction and a bit more face to face interaction. Go and enjoy life.
