The Impact of Technology on Family Time
Title: the impact of technology on family time Do you think technology has changed the way of communication? Is technology slowly taking over people live and affecting their personal relationship? Have we become addicted to the technology that surrounds us everyday and it has sucked us into it?
Technology is a use of scientific knowledge for improving the way to do things. It has been playing an important role in our life. It is common today, many developed countries are using high technology to run their works, as well as many advance technologies, are invented productively to the need of society.
This can be seen, technology has become a part of our life in order to do our works more fast and accurate. As we know, every institution has it own machine which has replaced human physical to produce more output. Technology brings lots of benefits to people unfortunately it also brings negative effect impact to a family. In this essay, I would be discussing about how technology impacts on family. Firstly, let’s begin with how advanced technology has meant that family life has changed.
This is meaning to say that parents and children have lesser interaction to each other because they used to do spend their time with technology like Laptop, PSP, games on the internet, TV and so on. It is because children no longer spend time playing and engaging in activities with their parents or siblings.
For example, when we were young, we did not need any internet games to whereas we had our own game which is traditional games. It can actually build up a positive relationship between parents and children but these traditional games are slowly replaced by the current technology that can bring lots of fun.
This example makes it clear that, advanced technology has replaced the traditional games which could create more interaction among family and friends. Unfortunately, children today are likely to play with technology instead of traditional games. “During the evening, when parents used to sit and talk together or amuse their children, they now sit in front of a computer. It would seem that technology may have helped family life to deteriorate” (Johnston 2010). It is obvious that, the impact of technology could deteriorate a family because they are addicted to the current technology.
Secondly, technology is slowly changing the way we communicate with others and affecting our personal relationship. It has left us with the chance to meet people in a much easier ways. Most people, both children and adults spend quite a lot of time in texting friends and relatives, wasting money and using text- speak as a way to communicate.
Take Facebook as example, making a friend is now on a finger click, to gain a new friend you simply click on “ add as friend” and the other person accepts or denies you. We are in the next wave of technology, where communicating with parents or friends is all on the internet and instantly done.
New social networking sites are popping up everyday and people are taking advantage of them. You can see their away messages online and see what children are doing at that very instant. ” (Gupta 2011) When looking at this example, there is no doubt that it has led us to our hypothesis.
If a child is heavy users of social networking sites then it will have a negative impact on their personal relationships. Thus, parents and children seem to spend less time in each other’s company and the time they do spend together often involves playing computer games or watching television.
Most children are not getting enough exercise in today’s society, generally because parents can’t be bothered to take their children to the park, while being afraid of letting their children play outside by themselves. For many parents, being able to get in contact with their children by phone isn’t enough.
Children will therefore spend most of their time hidden away in their bedroom, watching DVDs or playing computer games, while their parents sit around the house doing nothing particularly constructive with their time. Technology is supposed to make life easier and give people more free time, but it seems that technology has undermined family life, actually eating into people’s time and affecting family relationships in a negative way. ” (Wilkinson 2011)
In conclusion, technology brings many benefits to people today, without technology people can’t do work more productively and efficiency. However, it has negative impact to human either. Interaction between family and friends are getting lesser and lesser.
Although there are also advantages to having so much technology at your fingertips families may want to weigh up pros and cons to make sure that they achieve an even balance between a quality family lives. In my opinion, I would use technology to go my works but I will not let technology to influence my family and friends’ relationship. 0104896 (Jonathan Kuek SzeGuan) Title: the impact of technology on family time Do you think technology has changed the way of communication? Is technology slowly taking over people live and affecting their personal relationship?
Have we become addicted to the technology that surrounds us everyday and it has sucked us into it? Technology is a use of scientific knowledge for improving the way to do things. It has been playing an important role in our life. It is common today, many developed countries are using high technology to run their works, as well as many advanced technologies, are invented productively to the need of society.
This can be seen, technology has become a part of our life in order to do our works more fast and accurate. As we know, every institution has it own machine which has replaced human physical to produce more output.
Technology brings lots of benefits to people unfortunately it also brings negative effect impact to a family. In this essay, I would be discussing about how technology impacts on family. Firstly, let’s begin with how advanced technology has meant that family life has changed. This is meaning to say that parents and children have lesser interaction to each other because they used to do spend their time with technology like Laptop, PSP, games on the internet, TV and so on. It is because children no longer spend time playing and engaging in activities with their parents or siblings.
For example, when we were young, we did not need any internet games to whereas we had our own game which is traditional games. It can actually build up a positive relationship between parents and children but these traditional games are slowly replaced by the current technology that can bring lots of fun.
This example makes it clear that, advanced technology has replaced the traditional games which could create more interaction among family and friends. Unfortunately, children today are likely to play with technology instead of traditional games. During the evening, when parents used to sit and talk together or amuse their children, they now sit in front of a computer. It would seem that technology may have helped family life to deteriorate” (Johnston 2010).
It is obvious that, the impact of technology could deteriorate a family because they are addicted to the current technology. Secondly, technology is slowly changing the way we communicate with others and affecting our personal relationship. It has left us with the chance to meet people in a much easier ways.
Most people, both children and adults spend quite a lot of time in texting friends and relatives, wasting money and using text- speak as a way to communicate. Take Facebook as example, making a friend is now on a finger click, to gain a new friend you simply click on “ add as friend” and the other person accepts or denies you.
We are in the next wave of technology, where communicating with parents or friends is all on the internet and instantly done. “New social networking sites are popping up everyday and people are taking advantage of them. You can see their away messages online and see what children are doing at that very instant. (Gupta 2011)
When looking at this example, there is no doubt that it has led us to our hypothesis. If a child is heavy users of social networking sites then it will have a negative impact on their personal relationships. Thus, parents and children seem to spend less time in each other’s company and the time they do spend together often involves playing computer games or watching television.
Most children are not getting enough exercise in today’s society, generally because parents can’t be bothered to take their children to the park, while being afraid of letting their children play outside by themselves.
For many parents, being able to get in contact with their children by phone isn’t enough. Children will therefore spend most of their time hidden away in their bedroom, watching DVDs or playing computer games, while their parents sit around the house doing nothing particularly constructive with their time. “Technology is supposed to make life easier and give people more free time, but it seems that technology has undermined family life, actually eating into people’s time and affecting family relationships in a negative way. ” (Wilkinson 2011)
In conclusion, technology brings many benefits to people today, without technology people can’t do work more productively and efficiency. However, it has negative impact to human either. Interaction between family and friends are getting lesser and lesser. Although there are also advantages to having so much technology at your fingertips families may want to weigh up pros and cons to make sure that they achieve an even balance between a quality family lives. In my opinion, I would use technology to go my works but I will not let technology to influence my family and friends’ relationship.
