Does Technology Make Us Feel More Lonely ?

Technology is an innovation created by humans to make life get easier in daily life . there are so many kinds of technology.  One of them is technology to communicate, for example such as telephone, social media, and etc . nowadays technology can not be separated from humans. technology that is growing very fast and became  modern technology , it makes life easier and always accompanies human life. There are so many benefits that we get like we can get information from all parts of the world, Adding knowledge, Facilitating all  our affairs, we can searching  many friends  through several social media, so many types of social media and they’re  offering attractive features and very easy to access, and there are many other benefits that we can get from technology , but on the other hand there are also many disadvantage. likes make us feel lonely, does technology make us feel more lonely? I will answer yes it is . there are several reasons why technology makes us more lonely.

First, technology makes us isolated from the real world that is why we feel lonely. Many people choose to make friends through social media. According Dr. Ramani said that “A person can think they’re interacting with other people, but in fact, [they] really aren’t. They really aren’t leaving their house or interacting with real human beings, so they may wonder why they may be feeling so alienated or so isolated” (qtd.  Moriarty, 2016). People rarely meet with people ,  not look face to face only talk through social media and less interact with each other. When we  less interact directly with others, the more difficult it will be to socialize with real-life people. We only spend time in front of computers or gadgets rather than going out with friends and even gathering with friends or family, they will focus more on gadgets than talking. There is even someone who makes a proverb that the gadget draws near and away from the near. it makes us feel lonely because of our busy life or someone on the gadget and prefers cyberspace to the real world. The more time spent online, the less time is left to interact in the real world. We prefer to talk to people who are far away from us than with people beside us. We have a lot online friend than in real life. It makes feel more lonenly

Second, we depend on technology. Every second, every minute, every hour, even every day we always use gadgets. Like when  we want to buy something, we just sit at home and buy things through gadgets, even though we can go to the store and it can make us meet new people and maybe by walking out of the house we can visit places around us. “Technology makes you more alone because we are always depending on our phones and other technology; when you start to get too attached to your technology, you start to compare your life with the lives of others, and you just yourself with the amount likes and followers someone else has” ( Benny, 2017). It makes us anti-social and only spends time with our gadgets. Even children now have to have gadgets to play, this makes it difficult for children to access and socialize. We are too technology based. We are too difficult to talk about what we are feeling and how we talk about something that has happened.

We can conclude thattechnology gives us many benefits and our life feels easier. but behind these benefits technology makes us lonely. we become people who only focus on cyberspace rather than real life. we become antisocial , we are addicted to technology. maybe in the future technology will be more sophisticated. we feel lonely because in real life we cannot tell someone because we have no friends in real life or are not accustomed to telling directly because they are used to telling only through social media . we hard to express our feeling . It makes us feel more lonely