The Effects Of Technology On People's Unplugged Lives

If someone you love lives far away you can easily communicate with them. If you want to check up on people you can on Twitter, Facebook, really any social media site. You see technology everywhere in the world today, it's insane how far we've gone with it, but it's also sad seeing how technology is used for almost everything these days. You scroll through your Instagram feed in silence while you're in the car with your family. There's a man trying to propose to his girlfriend while he has his phone in his hand trying to record the whole thing. You're simply happy alone in bed watching Netflix and your hand glued to your phone. We really have to have technology every point of the day in 2015, we can't just live in the moment like they used to

It's getting in the way of real socializing, face to face conversations. You're walking down the streets of New York surrounded by people who are staring at their screens, no real interactions amongst each other. "People today are more connected to one another than ever before in human history, thanks to Internet-based social networking sites and text messaging. But they’re also more lonely and distant from one another in their unplugged lives, says Massachusetts Institute of Technology social psychologist Sherry Turkle, PhD." Technology is really ruining how we talk with people in real life, they're so used to texting & talking over the phone that they can't even hold a normal conversation face to face. It's messing with our brains since now we think communicating over electronic devices is more normal now than communicating to one another outside of

Another recent study found that 48% of respondents only had one confidant compared to a similar study done 25 years ago, when people said they had about three people they could really trust. A study by Harvard Business Review found that team performance went up 50% when teams socialized more and limited email for “operational-only” issues." If you haven't noticed there's a pattern going on here. We as humans are not getting more lonely just because, the real reason is the technology. People repetitively are picking screens over interacting with real people. The New York Time opened up an online forum in September 2013 to students 13 and older to answer the question: Does technology make us more alone? Below are some