Technology has been a huge part of our lives since we consider using technology a lot in our day-to-day activities from health to communication and from education to entertainment. Technology has a very helpful impact on our lives as well as the ones that are threatening our health and well-being.
Technology has a huge variety of content and data. The sea of content can be very helpful and entertaining when you want to find out about a new topic and you want to find one that interests you because it has every kind of information about various topics that you can access. But it might cause misconceptions because of the access to too much data, valid and wrong ones. When you have to do research for a project or something else, you must not trust every source without checking whether if it is valid or not. If you do not then you might face some unnecessary challenges which will make you lose time. This situation can be referred to as abundance of data.
A few years ago, by the time coronavirus was still hunting for people’s lives outside while we were at our homes as students during the shutdown. There were many ways to continue our education from our houses by using technology. Also during the shutdown, it would be nearly impossible for people to communicate between very long distances if technology was not always available for us. Technology helped people to overcome the distance barrier in front of them and helped them to socialize faster and easier. While doing this it also lowered people’s attention span since people had to spend much more time than they normally did. With the popularization of online communication applications such as Zoom, people’s screen time kept increasing day by day and nowadays many people cannot even watch a movie because of their short attention span.
Our computers and phones provide many kinds of entertainment ways to us such as games, social media, streaming video, and so on. These entertainment platforms usually want us to create accounts to use them. To create an account you need to create a password which must be strong enough to save your account from strangers, otherwise, they might access your personal information and could use it without your consent in ways you might not be okay with, such as your bank information.
Technology is an irrefutable fact in our lives. It keeps improving every single day and makes our lives easier and easier. We can’t deny the fact that it is also dangerous in various ways and at some point, can cause addictions. These addictions, if not defeated can threaten your health and well-being. Therefore the best way is always to always search for balance in your usage and screen time. Also don’t forget to create strong passwords!
