Technology has become a vital resource in our everyday lives. We use our phones for phone calls and send messages, and now we use Artificial Intelligence for work. I practically grew up with technology, with the first iPhone coming out in 2007. As the growth of technology continues, some positives and negatives go with it.
Technology, for the most part, is exciting if you think about it. You can search something up on Google and find a million answers to your question in 3 seconds or less. You can post something on social media on your phone within 5 seconds. You can do anything you can imagine on your phone. In the video "FUTURAMA," they attempt to show the accuracy of what the future would look like, though some to most of it was inaccurate, you can hear the excitement in their voices for what the future holds with technology. Though the future looks different than they expected, it is still a growing future. My relationship with technology is like that of a typical teenager; I use Snapchat, Instagram, and TikTok daily, which can lead to the death scroll, which can be unhealthy. Using social media for hours on end can lead to social anxiety and depression. Social media is a big part of a teenager's life and then can lead to cyberbullying.
It is important to me to keep in touch with friends, which leads me to use my phone constantly to keep up with their updates and stay in contact with them. I will admit technology can take up most of my days here and there, not allowing me to do work. Being in college, we tend to have two days to a week to do homework, study for tests, or complete projects. But with technology, I tend to do them last minute because I get sucked into social media. Another negative with my phone is that I tend to stay up late as well. This is common for people, as the light coming from our phones tricks our brains into not feeling tired.
With the growth of technology, you tend to learn more information. But some of that information may be misleading and wrong, making you believe the wrong information. You just need to double-check with the source the information is coming from. We watched a second video, "Mad World Remix of Moby Video," and it showed how technology can be a negative thing to be a part of. Many people are glued to their phones and not paying attention to what is going around them.
Technology has definitely affected my friends and family around me. Family dinners can not be finished without going on our phones, and hanging out with friends equals going on our phones for hours and not talking to each other. It is something that needs to be changed. But being the only one to move far away from home to get an education, I can see updates being posted, and I feel like I am at home again.
When looking up my name online, it was surprising to see my name is common. It was hard to find anything about myself, only my LinkedIn. In my opinion, I believe that is good due to my professional presence online. Yes, people have personal lives, but in a professional setting, it is good that it is not the first thing that pops up.
Technology is all around us, we need to be aware of how it affects us.