Technology in Our World

Today, adolescent are very familiar with technologies such as mobile phone, television, computer, internet, music player, etc. In their life technology becomes an important things that cannot be rejected or be left especially mobile phone. In this modern century, everything is developing. Technology as the main part of our life has been thriving and taking part in our cultures. It is growing very fast that make people have more complicated and various activities today.

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Technology give many benefits to us include in or daily life, in our family, work place, school, social life and almost everything. Undoubtedly, technology increases our skills and creativity. In the school, in learning activities, technology provides us a very large information and knowledge from all over the world. Internet make us could connect and search huge information. And technology also widens our network and makes us easier to communicate with our relations. World is felt very small because we can talk and meet face to face with other peoples even though they are located in distance place, in other countries or in other continent. We can communicate with everyone in our earth. In work place, technology boosts us to be more creative and skilled. We will not feel bored in the presence of technology as our work friend. And many more benefit that we can get from technology. Obviously, technology changes our life to become more productive and innovative.

However, we should pay attention to the bad effects of the usage of technology. Now, population of student who has sight health problem is increasing, vandalism and criminalities appear in urban area, etc. One of the factors of those problems is technology. In our country, “West Culture” comes to our culture and breaks it partially. People behave impatiently and hurt the society, it’s because they watch and copy what they see from television and internet. For the children that have been contaminated by technology like games and hand phone, they will have problem in social activity because they spend almost their time for playing in front of screen and lack of socialization. Technology is their “new best friend” but make them lose their friend in the real life.

In conclusion, we need to maintain technology that comes to our life. We can control it through several ways like:

- Parents guide and limit their children in using computer, handphone and other technology

- Teachers give advises and ask the students to use technology wisely

- Government prevent bad effect to our culture by filtering information that can be accessed from other countries

- Use earphone and screen-filter to avoid us from health problems

- Teach and lead our children to prefer doing social activities, etc.

Actually, we cannot judge technology as the main cause of our depreciation. Technology will give positive or negative effect, its depend to our decision. Like a knife that can be used for cooking in chef’s hand or the knife is used by rubber to kill and suffer other people. Once more, it depends to us.