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Topic: Technology in our life
Today's technology has good and bad effects but distraction is, in my
opinion, the major result. Todays’ technology has its good effects and bad
effects on society. But distraction has a really bad effect on society. Yes,
technology is good, better communication between people and major
advancements. But little things such as cellphones, GPS and much more are
major distractions in everyday life. These distractions could happen while
you’re in school, at your job and even when you are driving. In school, in my
high school experience at least 99% of the students have cellphones.
I always saw them text-messaging non-stop without paying a bit of attention
to the class that was going on. Most of the time I was one of them, and I regret
it because most of the time I didn’t pay attention to what the teacher was saying.
Cellphones are not the only distraction computers are as well. I used to see a lot
of students fight for a computer at school just so they could go on their favorite
social networking site, all these distractions due to technology. Technology is
also a huge distraction in the workplace.
I haven’t had a lot of experiences in a workplace environment but I’ve seen
a lot of misfortunes just because of a cell phone. My friend recently got fired
from his job because he couldn’t leave his phone alone, his boss was right you
either do the job or keep texting outside of the workplace. Last but not least,
distractions while you are driving. This is the most common one and the most
dangerous one. A lot of people love texting while on the road they rather answer
a text message rather than worrying about their own life or even worse, other
human beings life. Not only cellphones influence people while driving, GPS as
well.
People start laying with their GPS while driving without noticing what is in
front of them, I’ve seen a couple of accidents that happened because of someone
using a GPS. Also, music and music players distract you a lot, this has
happened to me a couple of times. People get so into songs that they start