With the Good Comes the Bad - Journal 1
Communication Technology is always growing and there are many modern-day communication technologies that help us in our lives and make it easier. Some very popular pieces of technology would be the cell phone, camera cell phone and Instant Messaging and especially mp3 players such as Ipods. There is always something good about communication technology or else it wouldn’t be developed and made popular. Even though there are good things, there are also bad things and consequences as well!
An example of technology that many people use in their everyday lives is an Ipod or other MP3 players. Almost every teenager today in school has some sort of MP3 player. Everyone knows the advantages of this technology but not many know the disadvantages. Some advantages of MP3 players are that they are entertaining and are extremely portable. On the way to work, MP3 players can be nice to have to keep you entertained in the loud bus or on a walk. Disadvantages to MP3 players are that they can ruin your ear drums and hurt your hearing later on if you listen too much or put the volume up to high. Another big disadvantage to MP3 players is that since it is very inconvenient and confusing to transfer songs from CD’s to the computer and then into the MP3 player, many people download off Gnutella Networks such as Kazaa, Limewire etc. Besides, for people with 80 GB Ipods, are they really going to buy thousands of CD’s? If you use those Downloading softwares to download music illegally, you could easily get fined or in big trouble.
Another example of technology that is commonly seen today is Instant Messaging. The most common used is MSN Messenger and Yahoo Messenger. There are many advantages to this Instant Messaging software and I personally use it very frequently. The advantages to instant messaging are that you can talk to friends over the internet right away without having to call them. You can also talk as long as you want because it is for free. It is an easy way to communicate with friends for homework because there is a file sharing feature and another feature where you can talk with a microphone or even with a web cam! As you know, there are also many disadvantages such as being a distraction from school work. I remember once when writing my English essay and I accidentally put “dat” instead of “that” or even my friend who put ”lol” which in msn means “laugh out loud”. A very sad disadvantage is that people loose their communication skills to talk in front of other people.
So, in conclusion, all technology has a good use to it or it wouldn’t have been made but disadvantages and consequences are also packaged along with it.
posted by Ryan @ 7:23 AM
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