Ameliaso's List: Argument Writing- The effects of technology

• I was pitied mostly. Considered economically disadvantaged even, because I was lacking this particular material thing.
• I didn't have a phone to cradle in my hands and in exchange offer me a false sense of comfort; but comfort nonetheless. I had to rely on my memory which felt outdated sadly. I had to remember phone numbers, addresses and directions even. I couldn't call someone up to keep me company so that I didn't appear 'alone' while waiting on the train. I was forced to be. And as anxious as it made me feel initially, just being eventually became enough. I began to notice the faintest things like how the breeze blew my clothes or how the sun felt on my skin. I started to revel in all the little things, whose appreciation went previously unnoticed when I had a phone.

• By constantly being cut off from personal interactions and new experiences because of a technological device, a generation with substandard social abilities is being groomed. If we do not have to face reality by experiencing new things, making personal relationships, and problem solving, then we will never be able to function as adults.
  
• Data shows that those who use the Internet frequently spend over 100 minutes less time with friends and family than non-Internet users, according to Norman H. Nie and D. Sunshine Hillygus in their paper “The Impact of Internet Use on Sociability.”
• Society must be able to utilize technology while not allowing it to impede social interactions,

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• When we’re constantly distracted and interrupted, as we tend to be when   looking at the screens of our computers and mobile phones, our brains can’t   to forge the strong and expansive neural connections that give   distinctiveness and depth to our thinking. Our thoughts become disjointed,   our memories weak. The Roman philosopher Seneca may have put it best 2,000   years ago: “To be everywhere is to be nowhere.”

• They say our ability to focus is being undermined by bursts of information.

• once you made it to your desk there wasn't much to distract you.