How New Technology Has Changed Our Lives

What do new technologies have changed our daily lives? In recent years, new technologies like smart phones, the Internet, the iPod, and online communities have become part of our daily lives, especially with the new generation who can’t live without their gadgets. In fact, new technologies have improved our quality of life; for example, we have new ways to make friends through Facebook, twitter and MySpace. New technologies also change the way we communicate with others. Although new technologies have advantages that make life easier, it impacts our life in an opposite way that takes some negative influences in our life and we also need to think of ways to overcome them. The Internet makes people live in their own world with less communication with their friends. I am not particularly interested in video games, but some of my friends are crazy about them and they spend several hours a day on them. They always concentrate on playing for rank. Once, I quarreled with my mother and felt depressed, so I wanted to complain about it to my friend to make me feel better. However, he looked impatient and didn’t respond what I was talking about. After that, I knew I disturbed him. According to Sherry Turkle “ The Flight from Conversation,” she states, “ A businessman laments that he no longer has colleagues at work. He doesn’t stop by to talk; he doesn’t call. He says that he doesn’t want to interrupt them. He says they are ‘ too busy to their e-mail.”(334). I have same experience that my friends are too busy to interrupt them, so an ideal way I can share my emotion is through the Internet. I posted a message in the Facebook about how depressed I was and I needed friends to comfort me. What made me excited, there were a lot virtual friends commented my message and consoled me by sharing same experience. Finally, Facebook becomes best way for me to share my experiences and gets answers for what problems I meet. No matter why Turkle claims in the article “The Fight from