Normally, when people become bored, they either go outside or read an interesting book. However, in this day and age, picking up your phone or computer is the first thought. The development of technology has grown over the years, allowing for new ways to work, travel, and communicate. In today’s world, technology has been redeveloped to cause more attraction, which has resulted in a change in social involvement and negative consequences. The attraction towards technology has triggered a change in the way people live today. Many people are fascinated by technology; some may even say to the point of addiction. This is because everything we will ever need is right at the tip of our fingers. For example, there are more than 500 million active users on the app known as Facebook. According to Document E, the company develops technologies that facilitate the sharing of information through the social graph, the digital mapping of people's real-world social …show more content…
Social media allows you to engage in a greater number of relationships, but will also cause people to not be able to think for themselves. To illustrate this, Document B shows a cartoon that reads, “It’s A No Brainer”, which refers to the man on the table. This cartoon is used to explain how the use of technology essentially wears away a person’s brain. Document C also provides a great example of the change in relationships between people since technology has been introduced. It states, “Through an array of newly emerging technologies, the world of relationships becomes increasingly saturated. We engage in a greater number of relationships, in a greater variety of forms, and with greater intensities than ever before.” To conclude, this quote suggests that social interactions grow when technology grows, meaning that as technology becomes more advanced and improved, social interactions will do the