Exploritory Essay

Joe Costa

English II – Block 4

Ms. Mckoy

10 September 2013

                                                Technology Affecting Our Lives

            Technology has a harmful effect on our health, approximately 26% of children between the ages of 2-17 are considered overweight or obese.  As you can see technology has been impacting or affecting our society in a negative way. People get addicted to video games, phones, and tablets, and do not want to go outside and throw a football or hangout with friends. A lot of people don’t know that technology can ruin there social skills and jobs. Even though technology has its positives it has its negatives too. Another example is that a lot of people use the social network sites like facebook and twitter. It kind of takes away peoples social skills. I’m not trying to that technology is a bad thing and people shouldn’t use it, but I’m telling the negative impacts of it. Technology has an impact on Americans social life, health, and our jobs.

              Today’s technology is having an impact on our social life and health. This is because author Alice Martin states in her article that “in the past 25 years obesity rates in children have almost tripled.” (Martin pg.4) Another reason why it impacts our social lives is because technology has made an inactive lifestyle for us. Also social interaction is one of the needs us Americans need in life. A lot of social talking is done online now because of technology and is changing the way people use their social skills. Technology has made a lifestyle for people that we have fallen into a trance of just working, eating, watching TV or playing video games, and sleeping. From this people have started getting depression and low self esteem symptoms.

            Technology has impacted Americans jobs in many ways. One way is that computerized technology is taking the jobs of workers in the manufacturing factories. Technology has also taken over the car manufacturing unit machines which has been taken over most of the job. Global unemployment has now reached its highest level since the great depression. Martin states “it has found that corporations are eliminating more than 2 million jobs annually.” (Martin pg.3) Technology has changed over the past few years and is taking peoples jobs. Even though technology has helped people’s jobs it is still taking their jobs as well.

            This topic is how technology impacts Americans social lives, their health, and their jobs. I would like to explore this topic into more detail because technology is important to people’s lives and they need to know about the negative impacts of it. Also people need to know how it affects there lives, health, and there jobs. I think that my topic is an important topic because in today’s society it revolves around technology, and it is a part of our lives.

 

 

 

 

                                                Works Cited

Martin, Alice. “Technology Affecting Americans Lives” www.Google Scholars.com.  Mon. 2 Sept. 2013.