The main topic is relationships and technology with our society/ generation of teens. My thesis is how technology delays the daily interactions with family,friends, acquaintances, and society. I hypothesize that technology is diminishing personal in direct confrontation with one another human beings because teenagers currently rely on their phones, tablets, computers, or ipad’s to connect with each other. Simply, technology is lowering the confrontations between any one with an electronic device.
Technology and relationships are causing more and more day by day the decreasing of personal human interactions. Ira Hyman states in his article ,“Cell phones are Changing Social Interaction”,“that young people are constantly using their cell phones - texting, checking emails, searching the web, taking pictures, and tweeting.” Hyman insists, “Supposedly, older people …show more content…
Jim Taylor in his his article ¨Is Technology Creating a Family Divide?¨ states, ¨First, children’s absorption in technology, from texting to playing video games, does by their very nature limit their availability to communicate with their parents”. Taylor himself writes,“ In previous generations, if children wanted to be in touch with a friend, they had to call them on the home phone which might be answered by a parent. Thus, parents had the opportunity to monitor and act as gatekeepers for their children’s social lives. In previous generations, if children wanted to be in touch with a friend, they had to call them on the home phone which might be answered by a parent. Thus, parents had the opportunity to monitor and act as gatekeepers for their children’s social lives”. My personal experience was being distracted and committing errors myself due to the intoxicating evil that is called the internet or better known as social