How much quality time have you spent with your friends or family this week? Not much, right? Most of your time is “spent”, or should I say, wasted, on technology. Technology has been extremely overused since it’s so reliable. If you need anything it is there to help. However the over usage of it prevents us from having intimate relationships with people and can cause us to get injured. “Screen Free Week” is an event in which people all around the world try to give up their devices for a week. We too should participate in the “Shut Down Your Screen Week” because during that week it will have a positive effect in our daily lives.
The use of technology has severed our ties with people we cherish. Whenever we’re spending time in front of a screen, it distracts us from the fact that we could be using that same time with our family and friends. In the article “Social Media as Community,” it states that studies have shown that Americans today have fewer close relationships that they did twenty years ago. Our technology could have caused our personal relationships to be more distant and less …show more content…
It prevents us from concentrating, and can eventually lead you to a life-threatening scenario. In article 1, under the sub-headed passage “Homework Takes Too Long,” it states that our phones are constantly calling for our attention while we’re supposed to do other things. For instance, you’re walking down the street, but only paying half attention to the road. The other half is focused on that text message your friend sent you, and you aren’t as aware of your surroundings. There’s a high chance to get hit by a car. “This is because our brains can only process one stream of information,” stated in article 2 sub-headed “Always On.” Thus, we need to partake in this “Screen Down Your Screen Week” to decrease the number of injures devices may