Enc 1102
Prof. Cynthia Watkins
Spring 2012
The positives and negatives of technology
The internet is perhaps the greatest technological advancement of our lifetime. It allows us to more easily share, organize, and plan our lives with one another in a busy, fast-paced, moving at the speed-of- life, world. However, as we become more immersed in this technological wave, our real-life connections with one another are drying out-- often times even to the detriment of our very own mental and physical well-being. In a time when computerized interactions are replacing social opportunities, it is positively critical that we learn to find a balance between our cyber and real lives, for this technology will only continue to impact and evolve itself in our world. MySpace, Facebook, Twitter—these are just a few of the social networks that many argue have almost completely done away with the social experience. The internet has forced us to revolutionize the way we connect with the world. It helps us to bridge the literal distance between friends, meet new people and even create a new persona. The internet allows us to obtain information at the touch of a button. Information that in the past would have taken hours maybe even days to collect now take us the minutes for someone to respond to an e-mail. It has given traditional and non-traditional students the opportunity to obtain college degrees from schools miles away. There is no question that the internet has enriched our lives in so many ways. The one question that remains; has the internet affected our lives more for the negative than the positive.
As there are a number of positives for the internet there are also a number of negatives. In this day and age you hear more about people becoming more publicly introverted. There are a good amount of people that are now not able to function properly in public but be fully