It’s meant to connect people closer together, but it technology actually making us lonelier? Technology is a big tool used throughout the world by man people. Brought upon to make people connect to each other; technology is really distancing people away from things. Technology is distancing people away, making people feel lonely, and interrupting the way people connect with others. Technology is constantly been distancing people away. In Alone in the Crowd Mr. Price states “Young men talk about how only a few years ago, their dads used to watch Sunday sports with them and during the station breaks or between plays, they used to chat. Now their fathers are too often checking their email during games. The young men I interview sometimes call it “the BlackBerry zone” when they speak of their fathers’ unavailability.” This goes to show that young men were used to interacting with their fathers’ during the Sunday sports but since technology is frequently being used their “fathers’” don’t have the availability to be hold attention to their sons. Mr. Price also …show more content…
Margie Warrell states in Text or Talk “ more people feel more alone than ever. Surprisingly, those who report feeling most alone, are those you’d expect it from least: young people under 35 who are the most prolific social networkers of all. [...] , more and more people find themselves feeling distant and never touching. Or at least not enough to avoid us feeling increasingly alone. [...] But whether loneliness leads people to the Internet, or the internet to loneliness, it seems that many of us turn to the internet to avoid simply being with ourselves.[...] until we learn how to be okay with solitude, we are not going to be able to connect deeply with others” People who we are least expecting to be lonely are alone. What people on the internet are doing is just finding another way to lose contact with people and make themselves more