Writing and Research (COMM1312)
Dr Abu Muhammad Shajaat Ali
Section : 106
Ahmed Alghamdi
201102920
The Objective
Since technology came to the world many things changed in our life. In these days when the
technology has developed, it changed the people attitude and their behavior with each other and
how they contact to each other. When I say technology I mean the things that people use it daily
in their life, but I will be specific about the internet and the smart phones. The internet now is the
most important means of communication between all the worlds. The internet makes the world
like they live in the same town, everyone can contact to anyone he wants to call or text. The
whole world now sharing their news in the internet, and they do their work and all their stuff on
the internet. About the smart phones it is become the most important personal technology in our
days. The people use there smart phones for many things, for example: text each other, browse
the internet, download and send files. In my research the consider will be the advantages and the
disadvantages about the internet and the smart phones, and how they make change on our
society. I am doing this research because in the last few years I saw people start to use the
internet application for contact each other like in Facebook, how they text and sharing picture
with each other. The same things for the smart phones and how it is effect on their users. . The
reason why I did this research is to find the advantages and disadvantages of the social
technology and start to find solutions for the problems that could happen or have already
happened; in contrast I will look at the advantages and find ways to develop the good affection
by encouraging people to use this technology wisely and gain the advantage of it.
Are Smartphones, Droid and the iPhone
Ruining Our Lives?
*Most people want one common thing: Connection. Not via a cell phone
or Internet, but emotional connection with families, friends, partners,
spouses, and children.
* People now have so much access and connection to other interests that
it has become easy to lose sight.
* For those who are in relationships, significant attention and time spent
on social media are distracting from the connection-potential of
relationships.
*The tendency for people to isolate has increased because it's easier to
self-entertain now than having relationships with others.
* The main problem comes when our doses of alternate reality and real
life become out of balance to the point where the alternate reality takes
over.
*Solution 1: using the phone function in smart phones by calling people
who are important in our lives.
*Solution 2: set limits on the amount of time spent in alternate reality.
*Solution 3: schedule your activities rather than scheduling computer
time.
*Solution 4: leave your phone at home sometimes.
Facebook affects happiness, study says
* Facebook can actually make people feel worse about their own lives
* people actually use these kinds of sites to optimize their self-presentation in a positive
way, so when other people only see the bright side of others lives, they will feel bad
about themselves and their lives specially those who have difficulties in their lives.
* There are also positive sociological effects of Facebook, like connecting with friends
and a sense of belonging, but it shouldn't replace face-to-face interaction.
Tech That Has Most Changed Our Life:Skype
*Skype has made our international calling bills significantly cheaper.
*it reduced the huge bills from international calling and texts.
* made the world much smaller.
How Social Network Effects People / Facebook's Effects on
Relationships
*social networking can affect people's families, relationships and jobs negatively.
*using social networking a lot ruins the relationship between kids and parents because of the lack
of communication with each other.
* it also ruins the relationships between lover or friends, it could be by posting pictures or
thoughts that the other person doesn’t like. Or it could be by checking on their accounts a lot
while they are with their friends.
* The work-place has the right to fire workers just because of something bad that they
post online.
*social networking can help bullyers to bully over people by posting hateful and cruel things.
The Facebook Effect: Good or Bad for Your Health?
*Social networking has health benefits and health risks
*social networking builds up self-esteem, strengthen the relationships between friends and
stamps out shyness and loneliness.
*on the other hand, social networking causes depression, eating disorders and splits up
marriages.
Technology is the usage of machines, tools or systems to solve problems, attain goals,
develop new inventions, strengthen communication systems or simply entertain. Over the years,
technology has expanded widely and affected the whole world either positively or negatively,
and from this point I will focus on its significant affection on the society. The affection on the
society means the affection on the people, relationships, communication and so on. As we know,
there are some main types of technology that has affected our social life like the internet, social
networks and smart phones. These social technologies had a strong impact on the education,
environment, health, arts and culture.
As stated before, social technology can affect the society in a good or bad way, and here
comes the purpose of this research. The reason why I did this research is to find the advantages
and disadvantages of the social technology and start to find solutions for the problems that could
happen or have already happened; in contrast I will look at the advantages and find ways to
develop the good affection by encouraging people to use this technology wisely and gain the
advantage of it.
At first, I will mention the advantages of these technologies. Social technologies had
strengthen the relationships by communicating, for example, people are now able to
communicate with their friends or family members who live abroad by using skype, facebook,
twitter, phones ..Etc. It had also made it easier for people to get the cultural knowledge for many
countries by communicating with other people from other countries, and this is really important
and helpful when they travel to other countries or even at their work area. On the other hand,
these technologies had damaged the relationships with the people they live with. Some people
are so obsessed with this new technology that had made them communicate with outside people
more than their family members or friends, and this will result in the end with a massive
depression. Some people also have learned the bad behaviors from other people on the web and
applied it to their parents and friends as well. Also, these technologies had bad health effects on
people. It had made people suffer from eye problems, due to their focusing on screens all day
long. It had also caused body aches and obesity, due to the lack of movement.
In order to avoid these problems, I've looked for some solutions for it. First, since parents are
mostly the heads of every family they must help their children by monitoring them without being
annoying, allowing them to use these technologies for specific periods of time, encouraging them
to have activities outside the house and rewarding them if they have behaved well. Public
journalism can also help to solve these problems by publishing articles that warn people about
the dangers of the obsession of these technologies and advise them with affective and satisfying
solutions.
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