Technology affects our society significantly. It has become an integral part in our life by bringing so much benefits to us. Technology improves the efficiency in education, medicine, transportation, entertainment and more. When mentioning of how technology impacts our society, people will think of its positive influence. However, according to Newton’s third law of motion, “For every action, there is an opposite reaction”. Indeed, technology is beneficial to us, however at the same time it brings negative consequences. Although the rise of new technology has improved our daily lives by bringing many conveniences, it increases the rate of obesity and the isolation in our society is more isolated. It significantly impacts our social interaction. One might think that social network brings people together. For example, you can easily find your long lost friends on a social network
The internet is an amazing tool. But even as it shrunk the world and brought us closer together, it's threatened to push us further apart. Like any useful to make technology serve us well requires the exercise of good judgement. For whatever reason, the restraints that stop most of us from blurting out things
The modern technology is a complex tool where people get access for multiple use in the modern society. Tho, it helps people in distant places brought closer, it then threatened to push close people farther. As of what's presented in the piece, the overuse of this technology have resulted to lack of communication to families which are supposed to have a stronger connection. The loss of connection may result to weaker relationship bond. Weaker relationship may result to family distress and conflicts. It is very essential as millenials and so as to every parents to comprehend and obtain knowledge with regards to the real life scenario on how technology affects relationship as well as communication of a family. It is as well to change and prevent the malpractice of how a family should act and should be. This should be an an eye-opener to the every people that technology can destroy a healthy relationship. It's time to change perspective on how a family should be and provide limits in the use of modern technology especially phones and other gadgets to prevent unnecessary distress.
Another negative consequence of technology is the development of the surveillance state.