Are We Overly Dependent on Technology

455 Words2 Pages
Are we overly dependent on technology? In the 21th century, the society we lived in is so mechanization. Every industry nearly needs technologies to provide helps. Although the release of a new technology can better improve human living, a lot of disadvantages will be appeared in our lives when we overuse technology to help. Do you think that we can do our own things without technologies’ helps? My answer is we can’t, because we are already overly dependent on technology. We can prove this phenomenon in our real lives in twofold. First, nowadays every citizen must have a variety of new technologies at home such as computers, televisions, tablet PC, Smartphone etc. These all of the latest technologies may influence our health and lifestyle. For example, people at home always use electronic products for entertainment like playing virtual games, for instance, WII, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 etc. These games always need them to focus on the monitor of the television or computer a long period of time, it is not a good entertainment because it may hurts their eyes directly. The next one is about the computer usage at home. Do you know which thing will a large variety of citizens do when they were backed home? The answer is to turn on the computer. They have different purposes in using computer such as communicating with friends, playing online games, working, doing a research etc. However, their sitting postures are usually crooked. It is bad for their spine and they will suffer from back pain when their sitting postures are not improved by them. Moreover, they may lose their ability to read body language because they are too dependent on the online communicating software to chat with people. Smartphone also affects human health. Citizens like playing some Smartphone applications all the time, it is so dangerous since it will cause the serious illness on the joints.
Open Document