Technology can be extremely hurtful and have a completely negative effect on today's society. Dont get me wrong, technology help in many ways, but I am going to focus on the negatives.
First of all, the Internet is a HUGE database with all kinds of people interacting with one another. The bad thing about this is that many people tend to either lie about who they are and this leads to sexual crimes. Or even on Facebook, some people are "cyber-bullied." This means that they are being bullied on the Internet where you can't even use physical violence to sort things out (just kidding)! But, truly suicide is the number two cause of death among today's teenagers and cyber-bullying, many times, causes kids to become depressed. That is a horrible thing for today's society. The other thing is that people today are COMPLETELY OBSESSED with their electronic devices (cell phones, computers, televisions, ipods, etc.). This causes people not to interact with others in person as much, which truly creates better relationships. Teenagers are always staring at their electronic screens all day long, and this is horrible for your brain and body. We are becoming an extremely overweight population partly because of what we eat, but a lot of it is the fact that people do not get as much exercise as they should to be healthy. This leads to heart attacks and obesity and other problems and diseases that will kill us. We will be lucky if America's average life span stays where it is, because right now, if people continue to live like this, it will diminish at an alarming rate- and soon!
All in all, technology is a great thing when used to be effective and only when necessary, but when we spend countless hours staring at screens, that is when technology becomes problematic for our nation, through stalkers, cyber-bullying, and our exercise and physical health.
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