Society is isolating of from humanity and making us lazy!

I believe technology makes our society lazy by keeping us isolated from humanity. Technology has caused growing children to refuse social skills; as a psychological study shows that for the past decade, children have been increasingly less inclined to play outside as they have become accustomed to do everything through technology from playing video games to interacting with other people through social media. Children are losing the ability to communicate, bringing about a generation unable to socialize and interact effectively. Our society is customizing the coming generation into a world constantly affected by technology. We cannot deny the dependency that everyone has to technology, how many of us can say that we are willingly able to go about our lives without a cell phone? We rely on it to communicate with our employers, family members, and friends, but it is not only to call and text; we use our cell phones for so much more that we are less inclined to even step foot out of our doors.


Not to mention family reunions nowadays. The house used to be filled with laughter, children running around the backyard, the older ones were enjoying a family movie and conversating with the other and parents made sure the food was made and everyone was being safe and having a good time. But now if we look at the families; children are being over saturated with violent action games, teens are staring at the screen on their phones twitting and taking selfies, and parents have premade food because it's "more convenient and time efficient." Soon enough we will be so lazy that someone is going to invent a robot to take care of our household responsibilities. We even already have apps that allow us to not have to text anymore; we can just press a button and say: "call Mom" or "tell Sister 'mom never answers her phone!," or even "google how to cook pumpkin pie." For all these examples there are other ways that we could've gotten information. We could've actually dialed mom's number, we could've gone to Sister's room and asked her if she knew where mom was, and we could've had mom showed us how to make that delicious pumpkin pie! But we have replaced that simple yet fundamental human interaction for laziness disguised as efficiency.


When we are born, the amount of quality time we have with our parents is essential in our personality development and having a role model in our lives helps us solidify our morals and values. But what are children getting now? Screen lessons on colors, shapes and animals. No more story-telling at night with mom or dad (or big brother or sister). The brain develops from birth throughout adolescence from both genetics as well as our environment and experiences that mold our core from a very young age in the environment we live and grow up in. The more we throw ourselves into technology and succumb to the latest device that makes life more efficient in even the slightest way, the less humane we are becoming. Our brains’ ongoing growth depends upon us and the experiences that as children we've learn for ourselves, and with technology teaching us these things through adolescence,and for this younger generation, there is a misguided thought that we no longer need to physically and emotionally experience things. The whole concept of making mistakes and learning from them is very true, and inevitably applies to brain development and growth. Our brains attempt to understand the world around us and fashion our interactions with the world in a way that promotes our survival and growth. Without the true experience, we, as individuals in society will never reach the peak of our intelligence. and all of this because we are refusing to see what our most tresured need is: our connection to one another.


There is a recent comment that says: "if trees gave out WiFi instead of oxygen, people would be planting so many trees that we could clean our environment. Oh well! Too bad it only provides us with the air we need to survive!"  Have you ever thought about what we are truly leaving for future generations? Everyone is more obsessed with the latest version of IPhone and Samsung Galaxy,  and not as many people are concerned that they are slowly killing our environment by leaving their lights on all day and taking hours in the shower. Are we going to have to live in space after we deteriorate our world to the point of inhabilation? Are we going to try to find some mysterious planet that provides with a natural resource that will allow us more "tech advancements and money." When will we have enough? When will we open our eyes and see that we are growing apart from mother nature in such a way that we are forgetting our connection to her.