Persuasive Essay On Taking Away Technology
WRT 102
Technology Taking Away
The average teenager spends about 2 hours a day on social networking systems, such as Facebook (Halfner 1). Even more time is devoted to texting with an average of eighty messages a day (Hafner 1). Cell phones and Facebook have been great inventions but they also have some serious downfalls. These modern forms of communication in essence have taken over the old fashion face to face interaction. People have become accustomed to expressing themselves in written form due to the ease and rapid control of texting and Facebooking. “Lots of people feel more connected to writing as a form of expression,”(Puente 4) not necessarily a bad thing but to have such a vapid source to express your emotion is unhealthy. As the advancement of telecommunication has increased the quality and depth of interacting has decreased (Pack 1). Lots of people treat Facebook as a personal journal to vent on. Not only does this spread your personal life to any “friends” on facebook but it gets rid of that personal connection that could have been made telling someone in person. These inventions have taken away face-to-face confrontations. It is essentially causing a shift in the way adolescents are …show more content…
These sources, especially Facebook, have caused people to focus almost exclusively on themselves. It causes teens to be mostly concerned with expressing their own likes and dislikes. People lose track of helping others. These systems have hindered communication because they start to eliminate the act of listening. It is in fact much more beneficial and better to follow God’s word and be “swift to hear and slow to speak”(Pack 3). Listening causes a bond and the ability to learn new things about a person. This however cannot be done if we are constantly focused on what we did today, what will make us happy,
Technology Taking Away
The average teenager spends about 2 hours a day on social networking systems, such as Facebook (Halfner 1). Even more time is devoted to texting with an average of eighty messages a day (Hafner 1). Cell phones and Facebook have been great inventions but they also have some serious downfalls. These modern forms of communication in essence have taken over the old fashion face to face interaction. People have become accustomed to expressing themselves in written form due to the ease and rapid control of texting and Facebooking. “Lots of people feel more connected to writing as a form of expression,”(Puente 4) not necessarily a bad thing but to have such a vapid source to express your emotion is unhealthy. As the advancement of telecommunication has increased the quality and depth of interacting has decreased (Pack 1). Lots of people treat Facebook as a personal journal to vent on. Not only does this spread your personal life to any “friends” on facebook but it gets rid of that personal connection that could have been made telling someone in person. These inventions have taken away face-to-face confrontations. It is essentially causing a shift in the way adolescents are …show more content…
These sources, especially Facebook, have caused people to focus almost exclusively on themselves. It causes teens to be mostly concerned with expressing their own likes and dislikes. People lose track of helping others. These systems have hindered communication because they start to eliminate the act of listening. It is in fact much more beneficial and better to follow God’s word and be “swift to hear and slow to speak”(Pack 3). Listening causes a bond and the ability to learn new things about a person. This however cannot be done if we are constantly focused on what we did today, what will make us happy,