NEW TECHNOLOGIES-by Paloma Macazaga

New technologies

The development of technology has completely changed our lives, and what has made a major impact is the Internet. These new technologies have many advantages, but they surely have some disadvantages.

On the one hand, they’ve improved communication all around the World. Nowadays staying in contact with friends who live on the other side of the World isn’t a problem, and it’s not just that you can chat with them, but you can also use apps such as Skype or Facetime to talk and see them at the same time. Also, since the Internet gives us easy and fast access to information, we can use it for many things like doing research for projects and homework, learning new stuff or getting the latest news as there are many news websites that are continuously adding new information. The Internet broadens the way to educate because there are many online courses which are available to everyone and they’re easy to get into as most of them are free. It allows people to acquire new abilities by using the right apps and websites and it lets us have other ways of learning.

On the other hand, it is a huge distraction to everyone, not just teenagers. Having computers, phones, tablets… while working or studying is in my opinion a mistake because you can easily get the desire to use them; and the same problem happens when you work on the computer. It has got its good things, but you only need to click once to open a new tab and start doing other things which are only keeping you from doing your work. The internet may have endless information, but it isn’t always true. For instance, many people use Wikipedia to get info but anyone can upload whatever they want there, so it isn’t very reliable, though people use it anyway. Even though we are able to communicate easily, it isn’t a high quality way of communication so it shouldn’t replace going out and meeting with other people face to face. Last but not least, we are addicted to all these new technologies. We spend a crazy amount of time on the internet which is taking away time that we could use to do productive things, it makes some of us stay in our rooms for what feels like our whole lives and sometimes when we’re with other people we use our phones instead of talking to them which is very disrespectful.