Personal Narrative: Enslaved By Technology

Enslaved by Technology Four years ago I got kidnapped in Haiti, because I put too much personal information online, where everyone could see. I never thought that people could be so cruel. Naïve teenager that I was, I trusted everyone. I had just turn sixteen and just had my first phone. All my friends had their phones two years before me, they were on social medias before me, had plenty of friends and not me. All I wanted was to be like them. After my parents paid the ransom, I was finally free, and they brought me to the United States (U.S.). When I first came to the U.S, I didn’t know that technology was so advance, they even used it in education. I had to adapt and learn fast, I became one of them a “technology freak”, in less than two years. A CNN article stated that: “At the age of five more than 50% interact with a computer or tablet device”. Most of my friends and I are on our laptops or phones every day. Kids don’t have time for other things. Technology is hurting us and we don’t

Technology is becoming the new “Global Popular Drug” to human beings, a “Brainwashed Machine”. “Over the past few years I’ve had uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neutral circuitry, reprogramming the memory”(Gladstone and Neufeld p334).Technology is reducing our involvement in social and physical activities. ”Study after study has found strong links between excessive TV exposure and childhood obesity, smoking, and sexual activity” (Gladstone and Neufeld p335).Almost every year, scientists invent a new type of device or someone creates a new media such as snapchat or instagram. The use of social media has become a matter of life or death for people now days, mostly teens. Little do they know that social media is destroying the outside of the world they had created for themselves and their