K.+SAT+Essay

Do changes that make our lives easier not necessarily make them better?

Changes that make our life easier do not necessarily make them better. Technology improves way too fast, and actually makes things a lot harder. Technology makes people feel like they can skip steps in order to get things done the right way. Some of the ways that technology does not make life easier are that it brings school grades down, messes up relationships, and it could lower people’s self-esteem. Technology also makes people feel rushed.

Technology makes school grades different, because students don’t take the time to plan out an assignment before actually doing it, they just start doing the homework and getting a bad grade. School grades are also different because now that we have all this technology out in the world; most teachers will assume that everyone has a computer. Then they will give you an assignment and the due-dates are closer to when you got the assignment. So the people who don’t have computers at home have to make plans to go somewhere to be able to use a computer. Also, doing assignments on the computer can also make people feel rushed to get the assignment done. Computers don’t really “think” before doing what you need them to. Some people think that if they just do the assignment, that they will get a better grade, where as if they were to sit down, plan it out, //then // use the computer, they would probably get a better grade.

Technology can also mess up relationships such as dating, family relationships, and your friend relationships. Technology could mess up dating relationships by texting. People could text their significant other and have a typing error, and it could say something that it was totally not meant to say. Technology could also mess up friend relationships because people can’t always tell what the emotion is through texting are. People can put the different types of smiley faces all they want but that still does not mean that the person who reads it is going to interpret it the same way you do. Technology could also mess up friend relationships by texts. Some people would not be able to make plans as much as if we had to do everything by mail. Also if teens did not have cell phones, they wouldn’t remember anyone’s number. Technology could mess up family relationships, because teens are always texting. For example; when teens are in the car with their parents or grandparents, they don’t really have conversations, because the teen is always texting. Technology could also make relationships not be as “close” as some may want them to be.

Technology could also lower people’s self-esteem if they don’t know how to use certain programs, or if they have to talk to someone in person rather than using technology, or even if they are talking with people from a different generation. When people don’t know how to use a computer program, they usually want to get help. Well, it is a little different for teens, when they don’t know how to use a certain program; they don’t want to ask their peers, because sometimes their peers might say something mean, like “you’re dumb if you don’t know how to use that program.” Technology could also lower someone’s esteem when they have to talk to someone face to face. Most boys and girls have this problem. For example; a teen girl might be able to text a boy and have full drawn out conversations, but when they are hanging out with one another, they girl might not know what to talk about or might not know what to talk about. Technology can also make the older people feel even older, and the younger feel smarter than the older. This could happen because the elderly did not grow up with a lot of technology, so now that it’s becoming very popular, they don’t know how to use it. Teens have grown up with it all their lives, so they are very educated with all the technology. In most situations, the elderly people rely on the younger people to help them get things done on the computer, or their cell phone. When the elderly need assistance or they want you to teach them how to use the program, you might get very frustrated, because they keep doing it wrong or your tired of trying to show them how to work the program.

Technology has started to take over everyone. People have gotten lazier, people get more stressed, and we rely on technology too much. Technology has made people lazier, because people don’t want to go shopping for a long time, so they place their order online, and then go to pick it up and come home. Another way technology has made people lazier is because some people will call someone that is one room away, instead of getting up and going to talk to them. Technology also stresses people out more, because a lot of people just assume that everyone has a computer, so when teachers give assignment, the due date is a lot closer. The students that do not have a computer have to change their schedule, in order to get the assignment done the right way. Technology does so much for people that we rely on it way too much. Some ways that we rely on technology too much are the fact that we don’t remember people’s numbers, students spelling is worse to spell check, and without GPS or Google maps, most people wouldn’t be able to go somewhere, because they can’t read a map. In other words, technology does not make our lives better!