Technology can be a good thing just as it can be bad. Technology has lead to amazing developments within our society. Growing up as a child in the 2000s is when technology was at its peak. My first phone ever was an LG Cosmo. It was not touch screen and it had a sliding out keyboard for texting. The games the phone included was poker, pac-man, and tetris. There was no social media besides myspace and only adults used that at the time. When I was little I thought myspace was a homework app where you're supposed to write so I never touched it. Technology started to advance more after the IPhone and other touch screen phones came out. As well as when Mark Zuckerberg created the first social media app, FaceBook. Soon after, many other social media apps came to be such as Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, Vine, Music-ly (now TikTok). I was in the age range of ending elementary school and going into middle school when I first got instagram and that is where it all started.
When it comes to a "healthy" relationship with technology, if I have to be honest I would say no I wouldn't be considered a person with a healthy relationship with technology for a numerous amount of reasons. Personally I believe the time where I grew up was the last group of kids from a young age would be fine with living with no technology. It started to advance at a crucial part of my life which was leaving childhood and becoming a teen. My parents gifted me with a phone at a young age for safety and because it seemed like every other parent was doing it at the time. Ever since gaining a phone, it has become my main source of communication and without my phone I feel very disconnected from my friends, family, and even the world. The other day I was doing a homework assignment, one of my friends texted me and I picked up my phone to answer, it died. Immediately ran to my room and sat there feeling so disconnected and sort of antsy until it turned back on.
With the advances in technology there comes social media. In my own personal opinion I feel that is what takes up a lot of my time. I procrastinate a lot with homework or personal things I need to do because I'd rather sit there on my phone watching TikTok for hours and worry about it later. With technology and social media, I believe it has made me aware of a lot of things that I wouldn't hear or see on a daily basis without it, yet there is so many sources and people out there spreading false media and information that changes a lot of peoples opinions on things without knowing the truth. Personally I like to do my research on things that I hear before just believing it.
My friends relationships with technology are a lot like mine, I'm not suggesting everyone and every situation, yet very similar worries or things we care about. Such as how many likes I'll get on a post on Instagram or being extra insecure because of photoshop and bad body images. My families relationship with social media and technology on the other hand is completely different. My parents don't worry about the things I worry about, they tell me how it is minuscule, which is probably right but I can't help to care. I have a brother and he's about two years older than me, I feel that him being a straight male makes him not care about what he posts or how many likes he gets because most boys I know couldn't care less about something like that.
When looking at someones online footprint, that can determine a lot about who they are from what they post or say. Looking at my online footprint, is surprisingly low. Yes, I have basically every social media and post a lot, but I keep my account on private because I don't want just anyone be able to access that. I know what you're thinking and that there is always a way around the privacy setting and you're right. When I post something, I post to the standard of my morals and values that I was taught from my parents. When googling myself the only thing that pops up is my Instagram handle and there is not one picture of me, rather there is Linkedin pictures of some of my family members. Technology has created some amazing things and one of those things that I talked about was social media. There is good and bad in everything, it is up to us how to prevent the good from going away.
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