Although technology can benefit the everyday lives of people everywhere, it has its' negative effects as well. Technology provokes excitement and without it, people tend to start feeling bored. It also interrupts work and family life (with cell phones, and smart devices). It has transformed life as people once knew it. People can no longer focus on tasks at hand. Multitasking has been proved inefficient and unproductive. It also can cause great amounts of stress. People are failing to pay attention to society around them because it limits how much people engage with others. People can not resist technology but need to limit the amount the use.
It's true that technology can be good. It's used all the time to make life a little easier. We can now communicate with others quicker and faster. It also makes finding information a lot easier. Although technology is fun and exciting, the negative effects have to be taken into consideration. Focus on school work and other work is so much harder when Facebook is just a click away. Effort to finish school work at a satisfactory level declines because people just want to get it done so they can play video games or engage themselves into other technological activities. With a distraction so easy to gain, attention is so easily diverted to other things.
Family, friends and society in general feel the negative effects as well. While talking to people in the same room, they are texting someone in a different house. People just don’t want to engage with one another in person anymore. People love to be able to connect with people through their technology. People can even play scrabble virtually without having to be in the same room. It allows people to distract themselves from important conversations or discussions. Technology is not necessarily bad, it just needs to be limited before everyone is consumed by it completely.
According to Carr, the more people use the internet, the harder it is for them to focus on longer pieces of writing like a novel. Just as Richtel said that technology is making us find it harder and harder to focus. Our focus is dwindling and soon it will be nothing. Soon, we will have to look to technology to do the things we can no longer focus on. Carr also stated that we are in the midst of a sea of change in the way we read and write, meaning our brains are changing. Richtel also found this out, he knew that are brains are being rewired by technology. Richtel could tell that people can not resist technology. Just as Carr found that while checking e-mails, reading blogs, and watching videos can lead you to trip from link to link because they just propel you towards them.
Haylee, I see that we had the same reaction to how other folks are nowadays. It annoys me how people I am spending time with will completely ignore me by texting a billion other people. I want to yell like "hey, you are spending time with me!" But it seems as if people can't just focus long enough on one-to-one interaction, which is why they have to play games, text, etc. while being with others.
ReplyDeleteIt doesn't seem to have a summary of the article. Where the summary should be I'm seeing another part of the reflection. or maybe I'm just not looking at it the right way. I think I disagree with Carr. I spend a lot of time on the internet, but don't have any trouble focusing when I'm actually reading something I want to read.
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