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.