HOW DOES TECHNOLOGY AFFECT OUR RELATIONSHIPS? BY HELMER DE JESÙS CANO CORTES

HOW DOES TECHNOLOGY AFFECT OUR RELATIONSHIPS?

I want to speak about internet addiction. I´ve just know there are a lot of researches and studies about this topic but I want to give my point of view about this problem.

Currently internet is like a drug; in fact it is yanking us away from the physical reality and we don´t feel the effect. First of all, people say internet let close people, in fact one of the most important think of the internet facilities is distance doesn´t exist but this  situation have had a different mean among the people because they prefer talk with each other through their devices and relationships result affected by this situation. Is true than we can create relationships through internet using social networks like facebook or twitter but it is a virtual relationship, so the worst thing is we are losing our interactions with people in the physical world.

For example, most of people in this moment prefer a dialogue through their devices, because in many cases they feel safer about they said, people think that electronic devises soften the relationships.

Internet and electronic devises create fake relationships because people usually lie through them, for example it is so easy to say a lie in a chatting because the other person in many cases doesn´t see the other one, and it is possible to have several relationships on internet or through our devices, in fact is hard to know how many people have someone like contacts.

Internet and electronic devises are excellent to send information but they aren´t so good to send feelings, because of internet and devises aren´t the best way to fix problems or to deal with personal situations, the best way is face to face.

Finally internet has separated our friends and families because we want to speak only through internet even if we are remaining in the same place or in the same house. It is necessary to get back to our face to face relationships where we can use the dialogue to interact with the other.

The Internet is an amazing tool. But we need give it a special use taking care about our behavior on it.

A great talk while drinking coffee it’s better than a facebook’s like By: Mónica Grisales

Technology has become an essential part of most people, because not only young people and adults use that for communication; now children and old people are experiencing this type of inventions.

There is a phrase that says "technology bring us together to those who are far away, but moves us away from people we have close". And in many cases it’s maybe true, because if one person in our family is far away or if we have a friend who lives in another country, thanks to new technologies, video calls and social networks we can easily communicate with them, long hours at low costs.

But in the opposite case, often it’s difficult to interact with people close to us because many people don’t pay attention to conversations every day for being attentive to their cellphones, chatting with their friends or their girlfriend or boyfriend. It’s very common that a meeting of friends, rarely talk because everyone is checking their social networks, the last tweet that published their favorite singer or a photo published on instagram for a famous model.

I think about having a balanced life. I know that is interesting to learn to use new technologies and social networks that helps us to communicate easily with our friends, but I think it’s more important to have a good conversation with an old friend looking their eyes while we drink a coffee and enjoyed a beautiful sunset or a play, but sadly today is more important facebook o whatsapp.

Our social relations shouldn’t be conditioned by a chat or a social network. It’s more important a call or a visit. 

Evaluation criteria By: Yesica Gonzalez Tabares

RELATIONSHIP

I am going to talk about relationship over the internet.

 

First of all, we have to thank technology for everything. We can do things like, communicate with others in long distances, we can chat, we can see them, and even more, we can call them for free, if we use Skype or Line.

 

ADVANTAGES:

 

Many people are very lonely nowadays. They don't have a couple, or are divorced. There are many websites that are free and available for these persons. So, this is a good option for a person who wants to get a couple.

Many people have succeeded and they have found great couples, even rich people in many cases are  of long-term and short-term relationship.

Many people have succeeded and they have found great couples, even rich people in many cases of long-term relationship and of short-term relationship.

Many men and women have found their soulmates or their ideal couples and they are very, very happy.

I know of a friend who usually chats on internet and there was a guy who constantly asked her to accept him. she didn't want to, because she was scared for all the horrible stories she heard before. Finally she accepted him.

She began a nice conversation with this guy and finally when they met each other, she discovered that this guy was a famous player. She is so excited with him. Even, they are a very happy couple.

 

DISAVANTAGES:

 

On the other hand , many people haven´t been so lucky, and they have found very bad people over internet and even murders, or people who are simply scammers that want to take advantages of them and steal their money or other things.

One day a girl, who liked to chat so much  on internet, met a guy called Jake. He was from the U.S. Everything was so nice  at the beginning. that she ended up accepting to travel to U.S and marry him. well, she got her visa, but before, she sold her house  and quit her job in colombia.

When she traveled there, she discovered that he didn´t have a very good job and he was waiting for her with her money. She lived the nightmare of her life. The guy is in jail and she feels so unhappy for what she did.

So, many people like this girl, become victims of scammers or dishonest people who just to play with the feelings of other people.

 

How technology can affect and influence your relationship? Carolina Martinez

Carolina Martinez

How technology can affect and influence your relationship?

Technology is extremely important in this time and it has a great importance in the world because thanks to its advances mankind has been benefited not only to acquire knowledge but also this tool has become essential to our daily lives because it gives us a way to interact with other people.  Sometimes, technology has been used irresponsibly causing problems in relationships such us breakups, separations, dislikes, etc., And for this reason the technology can affect and influence your relationship.

Positively

Technology can affect  relationships positively: for example when your boyfriend, girlfriend or your friends  live outside the country and you need to talk with them you just have to turn on your computer or your cellphone to communicate by whatsapp, Facebook, Skype or other means as it is a useful tool to shorten distance. Technology can improve relationships from distance because by this way you can send photos, e-mails, chats, etc. Technology is also useful to find people you haven`t seen for a long time.

Negatively

Technology can affect relationships negatively in many things: They may be problems like the way how we manage of network for example: the photo that is published on social networks or any comments about it and the consequence can lead to a breakup of a relationship whether friendship or dating.

It can also impact relationship because every hour you can be in contact with other so taking away their personal space. Technology also affects relationships and private lives when people upload photos to your social networks and people start to comment about the lives of people and this can lead to dislikes.

Technology also affects the relationship when it is used to destroy the lives of people through bad actions and montages and this may end up not only with their relationships but also their personal life.

Personally I think that technology is a great tool if you give an appropriated use.   I think it could have positive or negative impact depending on the use that each person do for example: it is given a good use of the technology when it is used to maintain a long distance relationship either friendship or dating

I think technology is a great tool, but there are people who do not know how to use properly and it can not only end their relationship butt also his life, such as when these people raise their intimate photos to your social networks and through this Can generate misunderstandings. So I recommend you give a good use to the technology as it is an excellent tool or device that can facilitate our life and communication.

 

 

The way technology affect the relationships.

Day to day, technology advances faster, and with this advance human efforts to communication are lesser. But while the called information and communication technologies (ICTS) continue advancing it seems the communications between people is every time more deficient.

30 years ago the communication between people from different places was very difficult, for example the messages were sent by telegraph or by postman and it could take days to arrive.

Today people send messages by cell phone or by computer and even it can take just a few seconds to cross continents. This is a technology advantage.

Also, 30 years ago the families had a better communication or at least they shared more time together. The parents spent their nights with their children and all the family watched television or listened radio stations together.

Today, the parents don't share their time with their children because they are always busy chatting with their friends by cell phone or doing "more important things" in their computers. This is a way that technology affects the relationships between parents and children.

Occupationally technology is very important, if technology wouldn't exist, everything would be slower because it does a lot of things easy. Things like create plans to projects using programs.

But also technology has taken an important humans paper. Thousands people have lost their works because they have been replaced by machines that do the same work in least time.

What would happen if technology continue advancing? Humans should think about it. Probably if we continue using bad technology, in the next forty (40) or fifty (50) years humans will be handled by robots or look for a job will be so difficult that most people will be extremely poor.

Technology advance will continue through times, our work will be learn how to handle technology adequately and that it doesn't handle us.

By: Sergio Echeverry Perez, course 11

Final Project: How technology affect our relationships. by Daniela Villa

HOW TECHNOLOGY AFFECT OUR RELATIONSHIPS
Daniela Alejandra Villa.

Last ten years society has changed a lot. The way we live today is very different of the way past societies lived. The most important factor fot this chage is technology which has progressed very fast sicne 2000.Technology has affected and changed the lives of people. Relationships for example are very different now.

The way like the people be in contatc is not only face to face. Social Networks chaged this forever. Now you can be in contatc with someone and don't see him. This is good but also is bad. Is cool for example be so far away of someone wich you really love,and talk him or her constantly, and don't feel the distance. Before comunicate when you was so far was very difficult. Also when you don't have money, be sick, it's rainy, or you just don't want to go out. You can stay at home and talk with friends, and do many things. Stay at home now is not too boring.

But is happening some very bad. The people has forgotten that the real world is what we see, the trees, the sky. The real friends are the people around us, and we are confused about this.All in our lives are depending of techonology. It has the control of this world, and is a very big mistake because this is a tool for be easier our life. Is not for be our life. Maybe if we learned how to use correctly this awesome invention of humanity it would help us, and really become everything better.

How technologies change our relationships? Diego Alejandro Henao Salazar

I think that technology can changes many things about ourselves but the most important change is in relationships, in good or bad things, for example in the past, when you traveled or visited your relatives, your  friends didn´t know until you came back and they asked you, what did you do in vacation? Where did you go?  Now they don´t ask because they can see it on Facebook, instagram or other social network and they can know all that you do in any moment, also in past, people visited their relatives and friend for talk about their lives, now we only turn on the computer or cell phone and you can talk with many people at the same time.

But technology has brought us many problems and bad things like addictions, health problems, extorting, and sometimes people could know where you´re only looking at the cellphone.

I heard old people say “young people can´t have a conversation for a long time, but, in social networks they can talk or write for many hours”, when I was a child I remember that I played with my brother and many friends that lived near from my house. We played in the park or outside the house or we played with toys and went to the soccer field. Now they only play video games, watch TV and use the computer, but, they don´t go out like in another times, which also change with technology.

But not everything about this is bad, we can do many things in less time, for example: we can learn about study on internet or find our homework faster, or our parents can do their work faster in the job. I think that security is better, transports are more efficient. Many people when go to other country looking for a better life or a better future for their children, they communicate by social networks with their relatives.