Too Much technology has ruined our lives
Roy Miller
2019-04-25
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Human Beings have convinced ourselves that catching up online with family and friends on social media is a very easy alternative rather than socialize in-person which is not true.
Research has shown us that social media may well be making many of us unhappy, jealous and even antisocial. Even Facebook knows about it. In an academic study mentioned by Facebook in a blog post it was revealed that when people spend a lot of time passively on Facebook consuming information, they end up feeling worse. Just spending only 10 minutes on Facebook is enough to depress someone
Apple explored the Do Not Disturb (DND) function, which would stop all the messages and calls from waking us from sleep unless there is a certain emergency.
Perhaps we should go back to our smartphones and instead of spending too much time online and on social media use the phone for its core function. Call our family and friends and have a chat or if possible arrange to meet them.
Getting out in the real world and having proper conversations with other people would provide a powerful remedy.
Even we can think of an idea about having a Focus Mode which will turn off all the notifications on the phone and hide all the apps from our home screen which will ease the temptation to use our phones when we should be concentrating on our work or while talking to spouse, family, and friends.
Former Google design ethicist Tristan Harris noted in an essay about how technology captures our minds and in fact, it is designed in such a way that it actually provides us with very few choices instead of providing more options.
When you search for anything on a Google, for example, say a restaurant, then you are presented with a limited set of options with advertisements appearing at the top. We rarely browse or go through the second page of search results.
The technology industry also uses another technique to keep us busy by feeding us an infinite amount of information.
While reading nice and comfortable stories about others and checking manipulated images about their love and social lives often lead to poor comparisons with one’s own existence.
We spend too much time in front of the television and yet we don’t get bored at any time. When social media websites such as Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter switch on their scrolling pages and update their news feeds regularly, causing each article to roll into the next, the effect shows itself again
Research has shown us that social media may well be making many of us unhappy, jealous and even antisocial. Even Facebook knows about it. In an academic study mentioned by Facebook in a blog post it was revealed that when people spend a lot of time passively on Facebook consuming information, they end up feeling worse. Just spending only 10 minutes on Facebook is enough to depress someone
Apple explored the Do Not Disturb (DND) function, which would stop all the messages and calls from waking us from sleep unless there is a certain emergency.
Perhaps we should go back to our smartphones and instead of spending too much time online and on social media use the phone for its core function. Call our family and friends and have a chat or if possible arrange to meet them.
Getting out in the real world and having proper conversations with other people would provide a powerful remedy.
Even we can think of an idea about having a Focus Mode which will turn off all the notifications on the phone and hide all the apps from our home screen which will ease the temptation to use our phones when we should be concentrating on our work or while talking to spouse, family, and friends.
Former Google design ethicist Tristan Harris noted in an essay about how technology captures our minds and in fact, it is designed in such a way that it actually provides us with very few choices instead of providing more options.
When you search for anything on a Google, for example, say a restaurant, then you are presented with a limited set of options with advertisements appearing at the top. We rarely browse or go through the second page of search results.
The technology industry also uses another technique to keep us busy by feeding us an infinite amount of information.
While reading nice and comfortable stories about others and checking manipulated images about their love and social lives often lead to poor comparisons with one’s own existence.
We spend too much time in front of the television and yet we don’t get bored at any time. When social media websites such as Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter switch on their scrolling pages and update their news feeds regularly, causing each article to roll into the next, the effect shows itself again
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