Name Emily Oben Time 11 00am 11 50am Date 12 05 14 I D number 10977984 Technology Causes More Harm than Good Name Emily Oben Time 11 00am 11 50am Date 12 05 14 I D number 10977984 Author Sherry Turkle argues that technology is seductive when what it offers meets our human vulnerabilities and as it turns out we are vulnerable indeed Nevertheless according to the Instrumentalist view technology is viewed simply as an instrument by which to procure certain social values which arise independent of it Technology is value neutral Turkle believes the technology causes us not to socialize as we did before most people would rather text than talk which makes socializing somewhat impossible Even when we claim to be socializing and spending time with friends majority of the time we are on our phones either checking Facebook Instagram or twitter This is what Turkle terms Connected but alone we are physically present yet mentally absent because our minds are not focused on the ongoing activities around us Technology is a body of knowledge used to create tools develop skills and extract or collect materials It is also the application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes the combination of the scientific method and material to meet an objective or solve a problem It has only caused more harm than good to our society The more advanced technology becomes the more problems we face There is little or no communication between individuals nowadays Almost everything can be done online be it shopping working or even playing If people can play online then what is the point of going to the park or playground Yes some may argue that going to the playground may be a little risky sometimes as we never know what can happen when our children play with other children but how would they learn how to meet and interact with new people if their parents are too busy buying them video games Like it or not children would eventually have to meet new people be it in schools or daycares Others may equally argue that they are too busy with work so they cannot take their children to the park Very well it is true that most parents are usually busy with work and or other house chores but taking your Name Emily Oben Time 11 00am 11 50am Date 12 05 14 I D number 10977984 children to the playground or park on your off day is not too difficult Video games are not real people even though they might be very entertaining and look real they can never take the place of a human being Also technology has made many children teenagers and also adults very lazy Personally I have heard many students make this statement We have google so why bother ourselves to read the text book before doing the homework this is the number one cause of most students failing examinations Since they know they can google everything and get the right answers they do not read their books anymore For example in my chemistry class almost everyone made an A on the homework but when a quiz was given barely ten people out of seventy five students made a B or C There was no one I mean absolutely no one person with an A on the quiz What does this tell us Students did the homework quite alright but how did they do it Did they actually do it or they just copied google answers It is sad to say that almost every student in that class made use of google answers which is not good because their quiz grades never reflected their homework grades This therefore means that most students are vulnerable and dependent on google for their success Furthermore although we can be grateful for all the good things technology has brought we should not moreover fail to notice the negative effects it has had on us They supply the stuff of thought but they also shape the process of thought and the net seems to be doing is chipping away at my capacity for concentration and contemplation says Friedman what does this tell us Many people do not even have the ability to think clearly and or control their own thoughts anymore The media portrays a whole lot of things that influences our ways of thinking For example the media makes us believe that in order to be considered pretty we need to look like the girls on the magazine covers That is we need to be skinny light skinned and wear Name Emily Oben Time 11 00am 11 50am Date 12 05 14 I D number 10977984 make up In fact we need to be perfect This is really funny because there absolutely no perfect human being on earth Each and every person is born with a flaw yet since we are so obsessed by what we see we blindly strive for perfection This striving for perfection is very detrimental to a lot of us so much so that naturally dark skinned girls would go as far as bleaching because they believe there is an increase in beauty by so doing which is definitely not true Others would even go to extremes like having plastic surgeries What is the point of destroying your body for no tangible reason People need to learn how to accept themselves for who they really are If you cannot accept your own self then who else is going to accept you The answer is very simple no one It all starts with self esteem yes we obviously need to have more self esteem in order for all these lack of contemplation and concentration to stop In addition technology has greatly disrupted our grammar and punctuation rules Let us use texting for example Instead of people spelling words completely people abbreviate Abbreviation has become the order of the day so much that most people cannot even spell most words correctly They hide under the fact that it is just a text message but later on they make the same mistakes in class or during an examination Instead of saying good morning they would say gmornx girlfriend becomes gf and the word school is now skul Then we say we are in the 21st century In what kind of 21st century do people not spell words correctly If we claim that we are advancing why don t we advance in all aspects Yes according to Wales professor David Crystal English has had abbreviated words ever since it began to be written down But those were standardized abbreviations known internationally to almost everyone People were able to understand the meaning of the abbreviated words unlike now when each person has his own form of short hand Name Emily Oben Time 11 00am 11 50am Date 12 05 14 I D number 10977984 Finally it has become obvious that technology has exceeded our humanity We hardly have time to socialize When I talk of socializing I mean meeting people face to