Rachel Money
English 1320
Essay One

The human mind is constantly advancing and creating new ways to discover the mysteries of the universe. It has conquered deadly diseases by creating vaccines to protect the human body, found ways to launch humans into space, and is still developing new means of technology. The human mind is still developing and has not even reached full capacity and will continue to invent and discover. However, is social technology doing more harm than good to the new generations? Is Facebook becoming a hobby that is on the same level as exercising, reading, and painting? The new generations are developing a nation where laziness is accepted, isolation is preferred, and narcissism is the most common mindset.
Humans have been creating more efficient ways of doing things since they have been on this planet. Technology is not a bad concept. The discovery of fire, for example, created light and heat, and introduced cooked meat and other edibles into man’s diet. Medical technology, like the development of x-ray machines and life saving vaccines are important to the entire population’s health and safety. Cars were made to get around at a quicker rate and are still advancing and becoming more and more efficient in every sense of the word. However, the way that we each decide to use these efficient innovations can be seen as wasteful and just plain lazy. Families use their cars to drive right down the street to the park when it could have easily been walking distance away; but they just did not want to exert any physical energy. If a student doesn’t know the answer to a homework question, they will just pull up a search engine on the Internet and type in the question to find the exact answer instead of reading the texts that the teacher assigns them. This is not being efficient in any way. It is just plain laziness. It’s the thought that they can