Does Technology Make People Feel Lonely

It is a quite debatable topic because nowadays technology and internet become like a oxygen. One cannot imagine life without technology as it is making today’s busy life simple according to the needs of different human beings. It helps children, youngsters, professionals, aged people through different modes like games, entertainment, business works, paying bills, and many more with the use of desktops, laptops, smartphones.

Technology can no longer go without Internet. The Internet has been made for making life better but as a saying EXCESS OF ANYTHING IS BAD. With the use of technology, people are being connected to people that are far from them through social media. People use smartphones and tablets for chatting online but they get irritated to talk to people face to face, this develops the feeling of loneliness in them. Youngsters upload their status and pictures to get likes and appreciation from online friends and they get habitual of checking their account in every 10-20 minutes. One person can be at one place at one time so by using smartphones and laptops they can’t communicate locally.

Children don’t talk to their parents and grandparents as they are busy on their Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat accounts. This is making a gap in their relations and age groups. One worst thing about technology is that it makes a person so irritated that he/she doesn’t want any disturbance between their use of technology. He/she start screaming on others if anybody wants to say anything and yes afterward no one wants to interact with that irritated person letting him feel alone. In initial use of technology it doesn’t make feel alone but overtime with over usage it works like a drug that will spoil a person’s life. It is an unhealthy practice to overuse the technology. People get stuck in the web of technology, there are many individuals who got stuck in the web but all are trapped individually, no one cares for anyone else. Technology is promoting fake identities. People use fake names and identities on social media and play different role online as compared to offline. They portray them as a different person by putting fake masks by which one get confused about the identities and get frustrated. This is against the ethics. For social media, they lose their actual personality and this results in them off from the society. It lacks people with communication skills like people who are good in online chatting are worse in personal interaction they don’t know how to speak to other people with different age groups like their children, to their parents or other friends. They become abusive.

On an average, children spent 9 Hrs daily on technology and the internet. From 24 hrs if they spent 9 hrs on the internet what will be left with them for family, for sleep, for food, for play. Technology has become “compulsion evil”. But people can control the technology according to their needs rather they are getting controlled by technology.

Socially active people don’t participate in festive activities or the social activities that are happening around them. They feel boring in these rituals as they find fun only on the internet. And if they attend these functions that will also be get connected to social media like to do check-ins of various places, to upload pictures for showing off between their online circles. In meets also, there will be smartphones in every hand clicking pictures for decorating their accounts and profiles to make other people jealous, by this, they get happiness and satisfaction which is slowly cutting them off from social ethics and ideals. Thus Social media is making our generation “UNSOCIAL”.

Technology is becoming like WHITE ANT or TERMITE which is hollowing our society. Few approaches should be made to limit the use of technology so that our society can grow in an ideal approach. By limiting the use of technology people will start communicating with each other personally that will increase love, Respect, and peace in the society. People should limit the use of smartphones and tablets while with friends and families, that will give actual happiness for the long term. Parents should keep watch on their children for the usage time of technology. Parents should also control themselves by using the internet, laptops, smartphones in front of their children so that children can interact with their parents freely.