Disruptions: More Connected, Yet More Alone

To start with technology affects people in many different ways. Not only, technology affects people by causing them to be more alone, is harmful, but it affects families negatively, and it should be use less often. Do people ever think people would be addicted to smartphone? Let me explain technology causes you to be more alone, It affects families negatively, and it causes educational problems in children/teens. First of all, technology does causes us to be more alone. For example, when going to eat the majority of the people are on their phones. Childrens play games, watch movies etc. and people do this consistently without knowing they are getting addicted to it. When people find out they are getting addicted, they can’t stop. In the article “Disruptions: More Connected, Yet More Alone,” Nick Bilton writes about a YouTube video that comments on our phones obsessed culture. People feel more comfortable texting someone than talking to them. Adults

In example, television is one mode of technology that can prevent a family from communicating. “Some parents stated that a socially isolated child may become more socially isolated because all of her/him networks are through the computer.” Social interactive online networking such as Facebook and MySpace has changed the way families communicate. In an article written for all ages, Dr. Jim Taylor states that “Technology is creating a family divide” (2). It’s amazing to think that, parents or a guardian can be on their phones while they are driving without thinking about the situation they put themselves and others. “Americans spend looking at their phones instead of the road when they check or send text messages. In that time, a car moving 55 mph can travel, essentially blind, across the length of a football field.” Instead of, technology making us more connected it is making us more apart from our love