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.

Technologies, relationships and ourselves by Daniel Felipe Cartagena Perez

In this text I would like to answer the question about how technologies affect and influence in our relationships.

To begin I am going to describe the main two concepts in this essay, they are technology and relationships, in order to clarify the purpose in this written task. There are a lot of kinds of relationships most of which are related with given social structures. It means we accept external rules when we accept the current social relationships.

The definition of technology has a close meaning with the Latin concept of what ‘natura’ is (Natura such as a synonym of the physical laws). For instance, a monogamous society or our moral mechanisms are as technological as a cellphone. Therefore, technology does not just mean a device made with chips, electronic circuits and touch screens; technology is a wider concept.

With these two references we can build a better knowledge about the main question that we asked in the first lines. If we wanted to understand most complex relationships: friendship, family and love, we should simplify the question and the purpose of that. In order to get it, I am going to rewrite the question in a new and similar way: How do technologies affect and influence the relationship with ourselves? Furthermore, what is the relationship with oneself in the technical age? In my opinion, those are the actual question and the most simple too.

However, if we made seriously those questions, we would have to forget a piece of our given moral and customs because they could create a hard surface around what things we can question.

It is evident that time is one of the key words in this discussion. Technological devices make us waste in a lonely way our days. We spend more time watching videos in youtube or twitter than thinking about our daily routine. Our lives seem written before we were born and the way to implement the ‘life project’ is by restricting with technologies. One example of this is the TV which could be useful if we watched to entertain us but we have found there the main source of truth.

To conclude, we need more time to share with others. Actually, time is one of the most important elements in any relationship but we mainly need time to share with ourselves. Perhaps, the relationship with oneself is the most simple and useful, too. 

Final Project Juliana Naranjo Gómez

How technology affect and influence your relationships? 

They say that technology is a negative element for relationships and it makes of this human progress an enemy. Most of those people are afraid of the social changes that in the last decide, is becoming faster. Actually human relationships are changing but we have to analyze the arguments against and for the technology to make take an accurate position.

First, let’s take a look to the disadvantages of technology to human relationships. The social network, especially Facebook and Twitter let many people know other’s lives in a way that privacy is being lost for users. There are many examples of this situation because people publish their pictures, videos, status, feelings, new friends, events, likes, hobbies, gossips and many of them are seen by strangers. Another disadvantage is the face to face communications loss. Many social networks users prefer chatting and communicating with their web-friends than their family. Even in presence of loved persons, many users are building a wall with them interrupting talking and eye contact for checking their mail, Facebook, Twitter, even games.

The disadvantages said before can make a bad image of technology but we have to confront it with the benefits technology gives to our modern societies. First of all, the continuous improvement of element of electronic devices and software are making day by day an easier way to talk see, sent letters, share pictures, videos, have appointments and do many things with less special and temporal restrictions. Not only makes distances shorter but also gives more possibilities to communicate with foreigners and displaced people.

I conclude that the problem with technology in human relationships is the same with most of the objects that humans use: positive or negative is not caused by the things, technology in this case, themselves, but the way they are used by the people. Then of course human relationships have to change with technology but it depends on the education and the intentions, how it makes a better or a worse society.

Digital interactions have changed the social dynamics by Alexandra Sánchez M

Technological advances have changed radically the way we interact with others in short time since lasts years. Now, It is possible to get a conversation without a face to face interaction with people who are in whatever place in cheap and immediately way. So, digital technology have given us many benefits, but we need to learn how to use it and how to not be addicted to it. 

 Digital interactions can be a “efficient bridge” to keep in touch. Some people establish strong relationships which were impossible without technology. They can be more outgoing and spontaneous with their virtual friends, and sometimes it can enhance the relationships and rise the likelihood to interact in a real way.

 However, changes in the social dynamics trigger different impacts. For example, friendships that have been build in real situations, have great effect in our lives, because Friends use to share intimacy, difficults and happy moments. Real interactions present the real sense of to be with others. Digital interactions are more superflual and less worthy because these are less demanding and more common. That is why people is getting more and more interested in vitual friendships. These behaviors have allowed the decrease of the importance of humanity values like listen the people who are around or share moments in family. Some people have gotten addictions too, and prefer virtual than social interactions. 

 Technology is an important tool that can enhance relationships, but it is necessary to keep the balance between plugging on and plugging off. It´s important to keep in touch with Friends and classmates vitually, but real moments may be more essential in our lives. Probably it is kind of complicated to adapt to all these new humanity changes, but we should have concordance in our real purposes in life and figure out how to use all these tools in an accurate way.

Relationships and Technology by Sneider Hernandez

Relationships and Technology

In my opinion. Technology is giving its part in both points, as bad things and good things. We just can’t say that technology is bad because it is giving a lot of really good things.

Some of the good things: We have the possibility to stay connected and to find people where ever they are. We don’t need to spend a lot of money in calls and videos to talk with our family in other country.

But, the problem is that the human kind takes things and makes something bad with these, the main idea of technology is to help humanity to solve a specific problem or to satisfy a need. Technology has not been thought to have fun. Fun is something that born in consequence of technology.

For example. The automobile were designed to solve the transportation problem, but not to run illegal races on the cities’ streets.

And, that kind of things are the reason of why some people think that technology is bad for the relationships of the human kind. If in a friend meeting all of guys are looking and doing something in their cell phones. There is a problem. If my children are more interested in their laptop and they don’t care about their families. There is a problem. But, if in my enterprise, I’m looking for a solution using technology. If my workers are searching some interesting experiments to try improving their results in the company. There is not a problem because we are finding in technology the help that we need, and that is the reason of technology.

In conclusion and in my opinion. Technology is here in a lot of cases to help human kind, but depends of us if we use that to do good or bad things, so as all the things of our life, that is our decision.

How technology can affect relationships? By Beatriz Flórez Monsalve

How technology can affect  relationships?  

Technology advance goes getting increasingly in our daily life. The internet, the social netwoks, the connectivity, and the mobile devices take to us a world increasingly connected, which it has generated an important change in our way of relating and communicating.On the one hand, the internet use and video games from the infancy  it has done that the new generations take to themselves every time better with technology, which they handle a wide technological knowledge to early age.Technology can be a good help in the education both for the adults and for the children. In these days, the Internet allows to accede to the information of an immediate and unlimited way. This comfort has removed to the personal relations, so  it’s possible to come to have more relation with someone who lives in other country, that with the neighbor of to the side. In addition it’s easier to tell to the others what happens by chat that to say it face to face.On the other hand, if technology is not used adequately it can cause isolation, and therefore is absent of communication, this due to the excessive use of the computer, television, radio, cellular, etc. Nowadays, the parents are very worry about it, because the problem is greatest for children and young people: They only have “virtual friends”, they don’t relate even to their parents.  If the parents were passing more time with their children, the parents wouldn’t have problems of communication with them.According to the specialists, this addiction can lead the persons to suffering depression, edginess, irritability, panic and a little interest to coexist with other persons. Nevertheless, if technology is not used well, it can cause serious problems of isolation and communication with the others.Today, several clinics of rehabilitation exist for the addicts to internet in some countries as China, USA and England.I surprise those days when it was necessary to write letters to keep contact with friends or relatives, or a meeting or reunion in a parks or squares with friends for telling on the event of the week. Today, on the other hand, the networks exist and with them we connect with persons that we don’t even know. That is regrettable, because if you don’t spend a lot of time with  people, you wouldn’t learn to treat them.I would definitely get more free time and I wouldn’t hang out my free time on devices. If I had more free time, I’d probably spend more time with my friends and I would go out for dinner or movies more frequently.
Finally, if there is something to keep in mind is that technology  used adequately  can have a lot of utilities, both educational and communicative, and even approach our friends or relatives who are in another place.

How technology affects human relationships by Alejandro Cardona Arango.

How technology affects human relationships.

With the increase of technology, the human relationships has had many changes, nowadays is possible meet people all around the world. With just a cellphone you could meet a person in an away country with a different culture.

One of the most important ways with people has their relationships are social networks, that are used for communicate, and meet with other people, also help, and maintain strengthen relationships. Many people are involved in a lot of relationships through internet.

But sometimes the quality of these relationships is wear because in it doesn´t exist the real connection, and it can break easily. Another problem with the relationships on internet is the information management, people distort their information and you could be speaking with people that you really don´t know, for this reason people is less confident and have problems with making good relationships

Technology has had a profound impact on human relationships; the physical limits to speak with people don’t exist now; but is very important that people think about how technology affects their social skills. The relations are less strong increasingly, people doesn´t have strong feelings, the relations are very superficial and these can be changed easily. Nowadays people spend more time in their devices than with people around them.

As conclusion, the technology is the most powerful tool to better the human relationships, this revolutionized the communication way and connected all the world, but we need remember use the technology properly, that this help in growing the human relationships stronger. But the technology only will be a way to understand each if we understand that it´s only a tool, and what is really important is to remain united because our quality of life depend of our quality of relationships.

Technology and human relationships By Catalina Zea

Technology and human relationships

We can not live without technologies: Internet, cell phones and laptops. Our lives depend on technology. However, technology has advantages and disadvantages.

The advantages of technology: Technology supports our lives, jobs and education. Currently, technology is more essential because it is neccesary for students all the time. The advantages are simple. The cell phones and laptops are convenient because every time you want to connect with somebody, you can feel near to somebody who lives in another city or country. You can use your satellite mobile phone map and you can find your way. Technology can help you with your job. You can work at home, you can have a videoconference with you cooworkers. Technology helps the people with disability, they can use different gadgets to communicate with other people.

Disadvantages of technology: you can create your own world including your virtual friends from Instagram, Facebook, or twitter. You forget your real friends and your relationships. Technology can be an obsession and can affect your health. Currently some families don’t have communicate because all members are involved in different gadgets, children don´t talk with their parents about their problems. New technology is more impersonal. People can not talk in public.  People used to be shier. Children are rude because they learn all about video games.

Currently, some restaurants invite the people to use a special place to keep their cell phones, while they enjoy a delicious food. Restaurants want people to give a good use to technologies.

I think that it is imposible to live without technology. New technologies increase a lot and if we learn to use them correctly, we can be big people. Using to much technology all the time, our brain abilities will reduce. Our brain is a more powerful machine than any technology.