The way i think technology has its effects during different generations-Unessay

The way technology has its effects

 Throughout the whole semester we have come across different ideas and forms of Technology, whether its from Pygmalion or the way we deal with everything in class by using our cell phones and computers to do projects or read books. I feel that over different generations, technology has changed a lot; this may not have much to do with anything, but it plays a huge role in our lives. So this is just how everything is viewed from my perspective among other things I have no mentioned.

Technology has changed the way we communicate; all of the new developments have changed the way we talk and connect with our friends, our family, and everybody else we want to come in contact with. It has changed the way we see or look at each other, and the way we choose not to. The News and Magazines are full of reports debating whether all of the technology we are using is good or bad. New technologies are introduced at record speed, and most of us think that it a good thing. However there are those who believe that communication has become a lost art, and that all that is being done now is called rushing, communication without using the caring, understanding, and body language that comes with real communication. I don't agree, because I am communicating all the time by text messaging and/or posting on a social network. Now days, all over the world, most young people are communicating and interacting with each other twenty-for seven on one device or another, it is just on a different level than some are use to, and the key is to learn to adapt to this new and exciting technology.

Perhaps what is happening is that one type of communication is a few miles apart from another kind? There is the type of communication that the dictionary defines as: To impart knowledge of; to make known; to communicate information: As in: To communicate one's happiness. Then there is another definition: To give or interchange thoughts, feelings, information, or the like, by writing, speaking, etc. As in: They communicate with each other every day. I believe that whatever definition one chooses it is still communicating; only technology has given us the power to communicate with more people, all over the world, faster than ever before, through technological developments, which have changed the way we connect to others. We have adapted, we have changed the rules of etiquette in communication, so that they work with these new devices, or forms of communication.

There is a generation gap in the way youth communicates, and the way our parents do/did. The thing I like the best about all our new technology is that one can get a hold of anyone we want, anytime we want, or leave them a Text to be read at their leisure. My second favorite thing is that I can ignore someone, if I don't feel like connecting right then there. Of course, this brings me to my least favorite things about our new technology; the ability anyone has to also ignore me when ever they want. Second dislike, is that I can be rejected whenever someone wants; this can happen by landline phone, Cell phone or Internet. Technology has changed the rules of etiquette and a Text is acceptable; some things don't change as fast as our new technology. 

I remember reading in an Art class how Ancient people use to write and draw on stone, which was cumbersome, or remained on cave walls. Also how the invention of paper changed the way of communication and the printing press created mass media and forever changed the way we communicated with the entire country and the rest of the word. Ever since the dawn of civilization, technology and communication have gone hand-in-hand; it has evolved with every invention.  After the printing press came speaking and hearing technology, also known as the radio and the telephone; then in the late forties the Television came along, a technology that transformed the way people saw each other, and the way they communicated. The invention of the personal computer, the pager and the mobile phone made communication faster and more accessible to many. The Internet started this latest technological revolution and it has extended it to cell phones and Text messaging. Like the printing press, the Internet services opened up the world to a different type of technology and communication: the cell phone: Smart Phone; Galaxy: Android, etc., revolutionized the way we communicate on a daily basis. The influence of modern technology on communication has been so powerful that it has shaped a society and country that can communicate beyond boards and paper and ink restraints. 

Society is exposed to all types and sources of communication. Everyday we are on the computer, the Internet floods us with all types of advertisements and communication wanted or not. The television, magazines and newspapers communicate all the local and world news, and we are in turn communicating everything we learn to others, either on a personal level or educational or professional level. The news now travels faster than it ever did before because of new technologies. Some of the new technology becomes old in less than a year and the way we communicate changes and gets old also. Ten years ago, it used to be that I exchanged Email address with everybody, and joined My Space (MS). Anything we did not want on MS was still discussed by phone or became an Email. Then times changed and fewer of my friends had Email address, we all discovered cell phones, and MS became Facebook. Before everyone had cell phones there was a technology called, Pagers. Times have changed and technology has also changed the way we communicate and everybody should adapt.