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.