Technology Surrounds Everyone

Since the beginning of the world, there has been technology surrounding those individuals in that society. The first societies developed fire and even an irrigation system to make sure all of their crops were well watered and taken care of to make sure the village was well fed. In the present, technology is everywhere. This sudden burst of growth, in the technological sense, has skyrocketed beyond belief in these past years. Before, people got along just fine without cell phones, mp3 players, iPods, and personal computer. Nowadays, take someone's cell phone away from them and they are lost. Most people would agree that technology is an immense help, but sometimes what is so useful and handy, hinders the society as a whole in advancing communication with others around them.
With the formation of E-mail, there has been a definite loss in hand written letters as well as phone calls. Getting in contact with people on a personal level is no more. The hand written letters to friends or family has almost become extinct. What was once endeared and looked forward to has become unappealing for the younger generation to take the extra couple minutes to address the envelope. Typing a few sentences and then clicking one's mouse a couple of times, takes a minimum of a couple seconds. The sincerity of it all is lost.
When wanting to get in contact with people, dropping an email has somehow made its way to being an acceptable way to handle things, even though it was thought at one point as being too impolite. Often time people think that an email is a quicker way to respond or gain information when really picking up a phone and dialing a number is easier and can be faster.
This one example as left this world in a hold up. When some of the younger generations come in contact with older ones, they do not know how to communicate effectively and efficiently with each other. There is a communication gap within society. Most of those coming into high school can not even process speech to older individuals and do not even know what a hand written letter is. There is too much typing and computer processing being exposed and not enough thought provoking tasks, like a good old fashioned note. Nothing is personal and heart warming anymore. The words typed by a computer are seen as hard and cold with no meaning behind them.
Everyone whisked up in this whirlwind also is a speed demon. Most of the people with these newer technologies, because they are so immediate in their processing, are impatient and unruly. If something is not immediately done, they start snapping and become irritable.
Many of these technologies, like the personal computer or cell phone have also caused a rise in ADD, or attention deficit disorder. Many of the children and even adults have too much going on, that they can no longer focus on one thing for a long amount of time.
Family time is also slipping a way in many ways. The children are either on the computer, talking to their friends or in their room listening to music and what not, off their mp3 players. The parents are off doing their things that they need to accomplish as well. That leaves the members of the family on their own, with no human interaction. The days of the board games and family get-togethers are almost non-existent.
There are, of course, good things to this rise in technology. Information can be sent quicker, one can file share pictures, etc., with family at a more rapid pace. If a grandparent lives 600 miles away and their grandchild is born they can immediately see the baby if they both have web cam, unlike waiting for the mail for pictures and what not weeks later. That is just a short example; there are, of course, millions more.
Yes, there are good things that have come from the new wave of technological advances; however, there is more harm being done. Families are seeing less and less of each other and not spending any real, quality time with one another. Personal connections are also almost eradicated from the new culture. People are now, more than ever, impatient and want everything done yesterday. Unfortunately, one must take the good with the bad, however, sometimes the hindrances outweigh the advances.
Nicole Gawel. Reporter for The Metro Group and Metrowny.com. The Metro Group publishes 28 weekly papers in the Buffalo, NY area. You can read more articles by Nicole and our other reporters at http://www.metrowny.com
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