The Youth on Technology

The Youth on Technology

        Everywhere during every day we see different types of media for different purposes of daily interactions.  The growing popularity of different forms of digital media in every part of life have turned media from something that would be a nice thing to have to make something easier, to being something essential to academic and social survival.  Every day different commercials are showing us the hottest phone or the next best computer to come out.  Without access to a computer college students would be hopeless for trying to write papers.  Considering this, should we really be relying so much on technology for almost everything we do?

            There was a time when grade school students were taught how to write in cursive and print as a designated class. Some people were taught to even use a step up from that and work with typewriters.  However, this has now all moved towards the computer.  Students are now being taught to type faster and the different ways that you can access information from computers rather than writing and researching from books.  With this more and more people are relying on computers for daily tasks.  Nearly every college student needs a laptop unless they plan on spending countless hours in a school computer lab, which likely many do.

            Aside from our heavy reliance on computers as a medium, we are relying very heavily on the cell phone.  The environment for interaction is changed dramatically.  Instead of placing a call now people rely on the text message just to tell you they are at the door instead of knocking.  We are expected essentially to be available all day every day no matter where we may be.  If you don’t respond to a text quickly enough people may be wondering what could have possibly happened that you took 30 minutes to respond. 

            Our reliance on these technologies is something I would like to personally try to make less of.  However, I don’t have the option for not using a computer every day for different class activities or homework to be completed.  I cannot even leave my house without my phone or friends wouldn’t even know what happened to me.  Instead of being a means of making things easier we are becoming more and more essentially required to have our media networks everywhere to continuously interact.