Does technology affect or improve interpersonal relationships in different fields such as family, friendship and job? Mention advantages and disadvantages.
Abstract
This speech is going to be about technology,
its advantages and disadvantages in our society and our relationships as well.
We are also going to talk about the fundamental things in relationships that
many people are not aware of, those that could change the interactions with our
families, couples, or coworkers, and it can make us see things in a different
way.
Does technology affect or improve interpersonal relationships in different fields such as family, friendship and job? Mention advantages and disadvantages.
First, we wanna start talking about
technology, what is it? According to the Oxford dictionary is the scientific
knowledge used in practical ways in industry, for example in designing new
machines. So in work fields it’s really useful, it makes the job easier in a
way and it can help building machines and programs that help society. For
example the one created by John Kellett that is a river cleaning machine in
which trash is taken out of them making a cleaner ecosystem and a better world,
in which less animals are affected for our pollution.
Like in this case,
technology can help us in many ways it makes more opportunities for us and it
also help us to be really efficient at what we do. With technology we are
always everything, creating, and thinking of the things that we could do, or
could use in our daily lives. Due to technology we have phones, and after them
it came social media, which is everything nowadays: we communicate, make
friends, and maintain ourselves inform through it.
There are some people that
claim not to be able of living without social media, internet, or a phone, and
some others that wish those things were never created. Social media for us is a
way of communicating, sharing and defending our beliefs. For example, when the
Amazone started burning nobody knew, nobody was informed because the media
didn’t care for saying anything or making a report on the lung of the world, so
we knew about the fire like 2 weeks after it started.
Even though, we didn’t
know about the fire at the exact moment, people heard about it they started
posting pictures until the whole world knew, and the created funds that were
for helping to shot down the fire. And like this, many other times people help
causes through social media making of the world a better one in which all of us
can contribute to something.
So
due to technology we’re more communicated, we can reach one another easily
through our phones, by a call or a message, but, are we really connected?
We think we’re not, we can be well
communicated but we’re less connected with social media. This is a serious
issue, often we tend to think that communication is the most important thing in
relationships, but for us it isn’t like that, for us communication it’s really
crucial, but not the most critical thing in a relationship. For us the basis,
the fundamental thing in a relationship is connection, ‘the way in which two or
more people or things are connected, or the state of being connected.’ (Oxford Dictionary)
that’s the definition of relationship there and as we can see a relationship is
a connection, but if there’s no connection there is no relationship.
We humans need that connection to have the
desire of communication with others. Technology, phones, calls, messages, they
often give us the illusion of connection, when all they help us do is to
communicate, and they decrease our connection, nowadays when we are with our
family, we are stuck in our phones, communicating with someone, while losing
connection with our family. This has mostly changed, so if we need more
connection, and real life communication, then in that way we can have better
relationships.
In conclusion, technology affects
relationships in good ways, but also in bad ones. It is a weapon that we can
decide how to use, if for good or wrong means, a weapon to end relationships or
to create awareness in many aspects, to evolve, and help people be more
communicated.