Technology is no longer a novelty; it will be the cause of
the lack of social skills in our society.
From books to phones,
technology has changed so much over the years. In most households you see the 5
year old baby being able to work an IPad better than the older generation can.
Technology has changed our way of thinking and how we react around other
people, is this a bad thing for our future?
Our entertainment is no
longer sitting beside the fire reading a book, or just simply chatting. It is
now sitting down beside the fire with something electronic to keep us
entertained. The lack of socials skills now in our society is ridiculous and
will be a horrific thing in our future if it continues to get worse.
The young people today find
it difficult to talk to a stranger because they are only use to talking behind
the phone were no eye contact is needed. Studies have shown that the average
persons spend 23 days a year looking at their phone screen. That’s 3.9 years of
the average person’s lifetime. This figure will continue to rise and the amount
of social skills for future adults will decline. There usual response to
someone communicating with them is either ignoring it, or one or two word
answers. This worries me for their future as they will find things more
difficult like, going for an interview for a job, giving their own opinion, or
even standing up for themselves. I myself know that technology is a problem for
social skills as I am also a young person in today’s society and notice this is
already a big problem.
This problem is definitely
something we need to fix for the sake of the young people’s future in today’s
society. If this continues to get worse the younger generation of today will
find it very hard to cope with the big bad world when they leave home in the
few years to come.
Sean Kirwan
3rd year
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