My Relationship With Technology
TECHNOLOGY and IMPACT Image property of American Sociological Association Examining My Relationship with Technology I have a love-and-hate relationship with my phone and with the different applications and search engines lodged in there including YouTube, Google, WhatsApp, Mapping apps, Amazon, etc…. Don't get me wrong! I do appreciate that we live in a century in which you can easily communicate with people who are far away, and this can be done instantly. As a foreigner who still has family ties in other countries and other continents and a mother to a college student, I am very grateful for the technological advances that we enjoy in this century. However, I also quickly realized the many conflicting effects that instant communication can have on relationships and on the way we use our time. In terms of communication, the rapidity with which we have access to people through WhatsApp and instant messaging seems to put me constantly on the edge. This is good ...