Communication Technology Impact

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Communications technology has greatly changed the lifestyle of people, including people in our country. if the one in the old days, mobile phones are one of the symbols of affluence or exclusive items. But at the present time, mobile phones have become very important for daily needs. Apart from that, the website is also very important to the community in this era. The famous example is the website Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Myspace. All the website has been part of human life. All walks of life both leaders, professionals up to the level of a child can be told the majority has its own social networking site. Therefore, the impact of social websites is the community that can provide people's dependency on technology has affected the creativity …show more content…

Nicholas Carr, a prominent evaluator of the internet and its impact, believes our reliance on researching others opinions and ideas on the internet is put in danger our originality and higher order thinking. “We are evolving from cultivators of personal knowledge into hunters and gathers in the electronic forest. dazzled by the Net’s treasures, we are blind to the damage we may be doing to our intellectual lives and even our culture”. We are becoming too apt to share what others think rather than personally developing and formulating our own unique ideas. This has negatively impacted our academic and educational institutions worldwide. Ingram Neil, a critic of the internet’s impact on society, fittingly observes that “We have become more insular, unadventurous, and less curious because of …show more content…

As a result, it is essential to understand how to use the internet in an effective and advantageous way which will enhance both our smartness and intelligence. The best solution would be moderation of our internet usage. We should turn to the internet as a resource and tool when it is absolutely needed in order to give us the information necessary to formulate an answer or explanation. We should not turn to the internet for other’s ideas and answers without trying to generate our own ideas, solutions, and work first. The internet can help us substantiate our ideas and support them with data and statistics and should be used primarily for this reason. Our current customary utilization of the internet prior to creating our own ideas and thoughts is ruining originality and critical thinking. A reduction in our internet usage will reduce our chances of developing short attention spans as well and many of the negative insinuations the internet is posing on our society. “We can and must do things to stay proactively "smart." We must exercise our brains as the learning machines that they are, and we must do this continuously through life. We must work hard to maintain our skills and abilities as accurate receivers and users of information from aural language, vision, body senses, movement control, and others. Thinking and originality as a society. The best way to

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