Question

Discuss one or more criticisms of the way(s) technology has negatively affected society, families, schools, or the workplace. Share your recommendations of any formal or informal rules that can be implemented in society, families, schools, or the workplace to compensate for the detrimental effects. Your initial post should include a minimum of two references other than the books. Review two of your classmates’ posts. Discuss whether you feel that their solution is viable. If not, explain what you would change to make it more realistic. If so, how would you implement their plan to the greatest effect?

Answer 1

Negative Effects of Technology:

Technology has been a boon to the society in many ways but it also has affected the society in a negative way. It is normal everything in the world has an uglier side to it. But, we as humans must always stick to positive sides and make use of them to help the world evolve into a better one.

1. Technology has majorly affected the social life of humans. It claims to increase the social life of humans by giving us websites like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc. but are they actually increasing our social presence. The answer to it is "No" as in these websites we talk to people whom we don't know from face-to-face relations.
2. There are been claims that 23% of people on social media are fake or are having different identities from which they claim to be on social media. Are we growing social in such kind of conditions and this is not fair to society? Yes, it helps us to know news faster than anything but 37% of the news on social media is also fake.
3. Now, talking about the family after social media no one is connecting as they were connecting on the individual level. The use of video-calls, phone-calls, social media has increased due to which the concept of the nuclear family has been on fire. There are very few joint families living together. According to a study, there are only 7% of families that are currently living as joint families.
4. Use of technologies in schools has also made children dumb as they are spoon-fed everything there. The whole point of research and development has been spooked out as everything now is just a few clicks away. The use of laptops, mobile phones, etc. has also made individuals dumb.
5. There are individuals who earn from websites like Youtube, Tik-Tok, etc. Some of them make educational videos that are useful. But half of the youth is pranking, giving entertainment more space, etc. People have lost faith in pursuing higher studies as they are earning from it a lot.

Hence, these are some of the negative impacts of the technology that needs to be given a thing by everyone and we must not misuse the technology as it will only leave destruction in our way.