Technology is a way of life for all people today. It is hard to think back to a time when some type of technology was in my life. My generation was at that awkward point in time where we would go play outside and have fun but we also had iPads to play on when we came back inside. You then look at the newer generations and all they know is some type of electronic. What will this mean for the far future generations? Will they still be able to form relationships the same way we do today, face to face, or will it all be online?
My relationship with technology has definitely evolved from childhood to now. I got my first phone in the 4th grade (an iPhone 4) and I never used it. Now I am a freshman in college and I fully rely on technology for almost all my school work, I am currently on my laptop just to write this. I wouldn’t say my relationship with technology is unhealthy but I wouldn’t say it is healthy either; there have been plenty of times when I have been on my phone rather than doing something more productive, but on the other hand, there have been times where I know I need to put my phone down and I am more than capable to do that… at times. Technology does take up a lot of my time though, but it is for more than one reason. As I stated before the majority of my classwork is online so I would have to use technology a lot of the time already, but including my usage in my free time, I may go over the appropriate amount of time. Technology is making me smarter; knowing how to use technology in the first place is making me smarter because it is such a huge part of society today, there is also the fact that if I don’t know how to do something there is a 99.99% chance that there is a step by step plan on the internet that will show me how to accomplish it. There is the idea though that the information put online is not always 100% correct and that does worry me because I rely so much on the things I look up online to be factual when researching certain topics, at the end of the day I have to accept that is something that will not change anytime soon.
My family doesn’t use technology compared to as much as I do; I am also one of the youngest in my family so technology took up a greater part of my life than it does to them. My friends on the other hand, who are all around my age, use just about the same about of technology as me if not more. Technology has helped our relationships because due to technology it is much easier to communicate with all of them especially since we all live in different places.
If someone was to Google me they would find me on just about every social media platform. Both my Instagram and Twitter are public so anyone could view them but I still have complete control of what people can see because I have control of what I post.
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