Has Technology Been a Problem in our Society?
During the school year, I feel like one of my biggest weaknesses that are stopping me from staying on task is technology. And let me tell you that it takes 6 hours to finish about 2 hours worth of homework. So has recent advances in social media made it harder for students to stay focus?
Personally, I think it has. I think that in this generation, technology and social media has made people have less focus and lack of attention in general. But the focus and productivity have not been the only problems in our society. Texting and driving have been taking the lives of many. This also has to do with people not being able to put down their phones in any situation. I think now more than ever people are being too addicted to their phones and are making society dangerous to live in. And if this technology problem doesn’t decrease our society will be forever in danger. That’s why I think people should be educated in how they can balance their phones and social media while not letting it get out of hand in their lives.
One solution to this recent problem to monitor screen time. This will let you be cut off from your phone when you have reached a certain limit of screen time. This could help prevent you from grabbing your phone that often because every minute is so valuable. Another solution could be to teach delayed gratification which is to delay things in your life to make you be more patient in life. Since most people in our generation have been focused on fast satisfaction than being patient. This will overall increase your attention span and make focusing on different things easier. And everyone has grabbed their phone just to open it every couple minutes for no reason. Also, I know for a fact that everyone has been mad at things not loading when searching something up.
All in all, I think that technology is a problem in our society and will keep becoming a problem if people don’t do anything about it. But this is something that no government can control because these are fascinating inventions that have been changed our society for better and in this case for worse.