Technology Good or Bad?

Technology seems to have a lot of influence on the 21 century. The influences that technology is both positive and negative but I think there are more negative influences when using technology than positive.

Technologies positive influence on society is to make finding information easier for people. Before technology, people would have to search a lot of books to find what they needed and that would sometimes take days,weeks and/or months. Now while using technology in the modern era (21st century),technology is at our fingertips which helps to find multiple things quicker. Also technology  can give us new ways to communicate with distant family members and friends.

When doing a survey to see if technology has a more positive influence/impact on us I found that more people said that technology does have a more impact on us then a negative impact. The people said that technology has a more positive influence/impact on us because it can make us more smarter and mindful of things around us. To add-on people who took the survey also say that it’s good for communicating with distant relatives and such.

Technologies negative influence on society is that its making people lazy. With technology nobody wants to get up and go do anything because they feel as if their life is on their electronic equipment. Also with technology people don’t  have good communication skills because in this era we communicate by texting using abbreviations rather than actually spelling the word out. We also communicate while using technology we use emojis rather than actually expressing ourselves and showing our true emotions and how we really feel. Nobody looks in the dictionary anymore they look on the internet and they don’t go outside because technology is constantly at their fingertips so they feel they don’t need to go outside.

When doing the  survey I found that the people who did say that technology has a negative influence on us they mainly said that because it makes us more blinded to the real world because we live on our phones. To add-on the people who were taking the survey said that technology has a negative influence on us because it can cause harm to us. Technology can cause harm to us because when we are on our electronic devices we become unaware of our surroundings and what we are getting ourselves into when we are on the internet.

       I believe technology has a bad influence on because we can do things that aren’t necessarily good. With technology being so popular in this century we are losing values and things that are important such as actually having a conversation,making friends, and learning to express feelings that can’t be expressed through a phone  because technology is overriding and overpowering everything.