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“The advance of technology makes people more individualist”

Reach Achievements In The Virtual World: Living For Yourself

 

Technology can’t be separated from human's life. Everything that facilitates human survival can be called technology. Advancement of technology, which was originally to facilitate human, and the current affairs it increasingly becomes easy, then arises "loneliness'' and new alienation, namely the degadration of solidarity, togetherness, and silaturrahmi. Especially in the modern era, all the things have become technology. And what human use mostly is a device or gadget. Almost all people in the world, use a technology called this gadget, both children, adolescents, and adults grow old. All circles, set the gadget as their loyal friend, maybe even can not live without the gadget.

Since the beginning of the 19th century, the community began to carry out some activities that are privacy. In historical films which are related with education, I often encountered reading a book in the past,by read it loudly, until the whole class heared it. But now, reading becomes a silent activity, which is reading silently by each student. As technology developed, and more, so that it is easy to obtain, more individual activities are carried out. In the past, television was still very rarely located in homes, so that only a few people had it, and because of that, a crowd of peoples was gather to watch television together. And this time, television can be enjoyed on mobile phones or gadgets, which of course are owned by each individual. And they feel uncomfortable if it's used together.

In this digital era, parents mostly make gadgets as adistraction when children are fussy, and hard too calm. Initially, it may be someparentsdirect their child to watch YouTube kids, or just play a game of snake, for example. However, over time the child will get bored and tried to find some new features or other applications that are more inviting curiosity. This is the beginning of the child that will be more focused on the gadget, and forget the world of their play. Then, over time, they will become more individual and less sensitive to the surrounding environment, even greeting people in the real world face-to-face feels reluctant. Changes in emotions are also inevitable, if children are addicted to gadgets, they usually tend to be more emotional because fast-paced technology, requires humans to balance themselves with it. Of course, fast-paced things will erode the patient attitude of the human conscience. In a sense, humans will become impatient and easily to angry. If that occurs to children, it is not uncommon they will be rebellious and worse again, children forget the need of eat and relaxed.

Teenagers or young people or also known as millennials. Nowadays, they areprefer to spend almost all of their time in the room, fiddling with gadgets or devices. Almost very hard to find, the teenagers joined the community service, mostly just the parents who dropped the action. Self-interest comes first in this age of rapid technology. Ease of access to anything, make the individual sink and enjoy their own world. Technology certainly influences the psychology of individuals. Technology causes real interaction becomes limited. Community norms are often set aside only for personal gain, things that were previously deemed inappropriate, but those are done repeatedly, continuously, then it will become something natural. Everything that is continually said or done can become a general truth. Because of this, humanities were also eroded, almost all activities and individual behavior were influenced by the media, such as films, hoaxes everywhere, and the lack of filters to filter them all. Not too rare humans become addicted to anything "virtual", and can also cause serious mental health problems, to suicide just because they feel less satisfied with the feedback that they got from the virtual world.

 

Unconsciously, living hinged on technology requires human social relationships in the virtual. A living hinged on technology requires humans to build their social relations in the virtual world, electronic mailing technology such as sending short messages, making a video call, and so on, is a phenomenon which made all people have to be able to exist in the virtual world. If they do not do it, they are deemed old-fashioned and get difficult connections to other peoples. Then, it formed a society in cyberspace or the digital world, or more familiarly referred to as netizens. 

 

All-digital, digital stores, or even can be called a virtual market, now more preferred by the community because of it’s various advantages. To make humans very rarely leave the house, except for urgent interests. Maybe in the future, everything will eventually become virtual or digital, until the streets become quiet, because humans just sit in a chair, and all their wants and needs can be fulfilled. All of human’s activities today are moved through a series of technology digital. Interactions between humans are also driven by completely digital technology: the internet, computers, phones, gadgets, mobile banking, and so forth, all of them driven by digital. Technology also affects education, such as the use of computers as teaching, and learning activities in the classroom. Computers assist teachers and students in a variety of ways that they need, including typing, find references and research. Teachers also use a computer to track the value, typing instruction for their students, involve the students in the classes, and keep in touch with the parents as well as co-working. As a result, students are increasingly less interested in reading it against a real book and prefer to copy, and then attach articles internet to work on a task.

 

But with technology, it makes individuals become free than before, and have their own space to move more freely. Each individual is responsible for himself. All activities in the digital world can also influence activities in the real world. In the virtual or virtual world, individuals can wear masks to be anyone. Not infrequently it creates new problems, such as cases of fraud, kidnapping, to murder . Activities that are too frequent in the virtual world, which means communicating indirectly with other individuals, cause young people, in particular, to be quite difficult if they have to communicate directly or face to face in the real world.

 

Technology can’t be separated from human’s life. Technology affects every human activity, action, and behavior. The advacement of technology with increasingly sophisticated tools in the field of information and communication, forming a digital society. Technology advances are taking place so fast, that sometimes humans have not had time to adapt to these advances. As a result, people are easily affected, because they don’t have a clear grip on life. It provides many positive benefits for humans to facilitate humans in meeting their needs. On the other hand, technological progress has several negative effects, especially relates to human life patterns in the sociocultural dimension. One of them is the information of more individual society. What should be done is to consider our needs for technology, the good and bad of technology, and using ethics and not excessive so that we are not addicted and become slaves to technology.

 

 

 

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