Technology Online Connection

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Technology and Online Connections “In some cases, people like to come off as bullies or tough on social, media but in person, they are shy and quiet. We hide behind computer screens and cell phones so nobody knows what goes on in our real lives. We don't have to post the bad things that happen, all we have to do is post the better things and everyone thinks we are all put together.” People like to show off on technology because it's easy to and you're not face to face with others that could tell that you were lying and it's easier to be judged in a good way other than a negative way. Technology has its flaws but it is also very useful online is made for the people to communicate, but the main targets is the way people are online, the way …show more content…

“The good news is that, nowadays, the Oji-Cree no longer faces the threat of winter starvation, which regularly killed people in earlier times. They can more easily import and store the food they need, and they enjoy pleasures like sweets and alcohol. Life has become more comfortable. The constant labor of canoeing or Snowshoeing has been eliminated by outboard engines and snowmobiles. Television made it north in the nineteen-eighties, and it has proved enormously popular.But, in the main, the Oji-Cree story is not a happy one. Since the arrival of new technologies, the population has suffered a massive increase in morbid obesity, heart disease, and Type 2 diabetes. Social problems are rampant: idleness, alcoholism, drug addiction, and suicide have reached some of the highest levels on earth. Diabetes, in particular, has become so common (affecting forty per cent of the population) that researchers think that many children, after exposure in the womb, are born with an increased predisposition to the disease. Childhood obesity is widespread, and ten-year-olds sometimes appear middle-aged. Recently, the Chief of a small Oji-Cree community estimated that half of his adult population was addicted to OxyContin or other painkillers.”(Tim Wu) Ever since Technology has advanced I has positively affected billions, but it has also been some of the leading causes to laziness, …show more content…

The new technology that is coming into people’s possessions are opening the door to drugs, pornography, catfishing, etc. If we can can find ways to open the doors that are more useful than the world and future societies will be better off. Even though most people don't realise how much technology is an impact on each other, it can really develop us into the kind of person we can turn out to

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