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| Francis Dumais |
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Social interactions with technology |
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Canada |
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The world humans live in depends too much on technology, and it affects the individual’s sociability. For example, fifteen years ago, cellphones weren’t invented; now, in a college class, almost every student has a cellphone. The problem is that this gadget, created in a purpose of communication, often stops the interaction : when an individual is looking to his cellphone while another person is talking to him, there’s no more communication. This kind of behavior (looking at a cellhpone when someone’s talking) is very impolite. However, very few students seem to be aware of it, because this behavior is repeated over and over again. If the humans don’t take this situation seriously, how will respect be taugh to the next generation?
Technology doesn’t only replaces conversations; teamwork is also affected. For example, when students have a teamwork to do, instead of fixing a meeting and work face-to-face, the work is often separated by students, who do it on their own. The problem isn’t the sharing of work; it’s that after each student has finished his work, everybody sends its part to everybody and interacts on the Internet. So, if the work of one person isn’t okay, another person has to write tons of e-mails and text-messages in order to join the first person. Then a complicated conversation based on dozens of e-mail is happening, and dozens of e-mails are sent to respond to the other dozens of e-mail. Students seem to have forgotten that when they want to speak to somebody, nothing is better than a face-to-face conversation.
Finally, technology is so deeply installed in human’s life that it seems to have developped the fear of loneliness. Often, on Facebook, somebody writes : ‘I have nothing to do, text me if you’re free’. Is loneliness so uncomfortable? Is it so terrifying that people write to others not reaaly to talk, but to escape a disturbing feeling of solitude? Being alone isn’t a bad thing, if humans choose to be this way. However (and this is such a paradox), technology leads humans to communicate, but isolates humans and gives them the illusion of being sociable. If, one day, technologies all stop at the same time, humans will haveto get back to the basis : a face-to-face conversation. The more they wait to get back to this point, the harder i twill be to do it in the future. A face-to-face conversation is quite easy, isn’t it?
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