Conclusion

In conclusion of my research of, “Does technology make more alone?”, I found out that technology has a lot of benefits, like communication with family and friends that are not close to us, meeting people from other countries, working or taking classes from your home. Having the personal experience of meeting people online, I thought a lot about if technology makes us alone. I met my husband online and I remember my friends asking me to go out with them but I always had an excuse. I was so into the internet that I did not want to spend any time with my friends. I spent hours chatting with my future husband (although he did visit me many times) and after months of ignoring my friends for the sake of communicating with my boyfriend, we got married. I did not see anything wrong with that at the time, and even though I meet a great guy, I know that I was ignoring my friends and isolating myself.

 With my research I learned that technology has a bad side too. We need to learn how to control technology for our benefit and be careful to not become addicted to it. It’s good to used technology as a part of communication with friends and family but not as the only way to communicate. I learned as well, that we need to make boundaries to help us and our family to control the uses of our phone. For my family I will use some of the rules that I summarized from Dr. Choopra, because I do not want my kids to suffer the consequences of technology abuse.

For my initial questions it was a little difficult to find concrete answer. I found a few psychologists’ studies that did many years of analysis to prove and back up their opinion, which it make their points very creditable. I do not think those are enough though. There should be more information for parents about how to prevent your children from becoming isolated by their phone, or any other type of technology. The affect that technology has on our memory is so important that I think people are taking it for granted. Moreover, I do not think we yet know the real consequence of e-mail and texting abuse in our new generation. At a minimum we are already noticing that youth are having more difficulty communicating face to face with other people or in some cases verbally when it’s a difficult situation. While some people are better at this than others, technology definitely doesn’t help them learn this skill. The obsession that we have with social media on our phones is relatively new and normally those studies take years. So because of this we will not know some the real consequences for quite some time and it will already be too late for some people.    

                       

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