About Television,Internet,Mobile phones

Essay

Television, Internet and Mobile Phones: positives and negatives, Internet compared to newspapers and books.

New technology and new inventions have changed millions of people’s lives. Some people say that they have affected the way we live positively, whereas others claim that the technology and inventions have a lot of negative impacts. In this essay, the pros and cons of the technology in our lives will be discussed.

New technology has made many impossible things possible. In the early days, families, relatives and friends who lived far away had to wait weeks and months to get in touch with each other. People used to send letters and telegrams; and it took a long time to get the answer back. One can say that in the past there were landline phones. However, only few people could afford the landline telephones, so it was too hard to contact the person who did not have such kind of telephone. In contrast, nowadays almost everybody has a mobile phone; that is why it has become so easy to talk, chat and even see overseas relatives and friends through the screen of our mobile phones, thanks to Internet. Talking about the internet, it has obviously a huge contribution on the quality of education and broadcasting. Internet gave an excellent opportunity to the journalists to share with the news and discoveries over the world using various websites and social media. Furthermore, the distance learning system through internet made many students’ dreams about getting education come true.

Although the positive impact of technology was mentioned above, it still has the negative sides as well. Apart from the fact that technology and internet made possible to contact the people whenever and wherever we want, it also made us to live in a virtual life of social media rather than spending time with our families and real friends. In fact, people are getting more and more addicted to their mobile phones, which has negative consequences. As a result of spending too much time watching TV and using mobile phones, many people have blurred vision. What is more, because of the new technology and internet, people stopped moving and exercising much, which leads to obesity. Another disadvantage of the internet is that it replaced the newspaper and real paperback books. As internet has millions of functions and applications, young people are not interested in reading books or newspapers and journals any more. Instead of these activities, teenagers and young adults or even adults prefer playing online games or watching films, clips, reading popular celebrities’ blogs.

To sum up, taking into account all the positive and negative effects of the new technology and internet mentioned above, one should control the time spend using them, otherwise the technology will control the people’s lives.