How long can you live without your phone? Can you even go one hour without it? Nowadays all people depend on technology. 91% of adults have their phones in arm reach every hour. Everything a person does now has to do with technology, it takes the old school ways out and cheats its way into making everything easy. The more technology is used, the more lazy people become. People can get up and go to the movies with  friend but instead they fire up Netflix and stay home by themselves.

Statistics show 82% of teens check their phones hourly and 50% of teens are addicted to phones. Raj Hill, a employee at Apple, gave me his expert opinion about technology. “Technology helps better someone,” Raj says. “Technology is part of your daily life and it’s never something bad, it’s there to help people.” According to Raj, technology is just getting better and it does not affect people in a bad way. Most people would agree with this statement, but I disagree because if you actually think about it, technology does not affect people in a bad way now but it will in the long run.

People say that there is too much technology, like Zahra Hassan, a middle school journalist at Unis Middle School. “There is too much technology but it’s not necessarily a bad thing,” Zahra said. “Everything we do now revolves around our phones and technology.” Zahra said that advancing technology can make people more vulnerable to being hacked. Some people use technology in ways they shouldn’t use it. “Technology is being taken too far, it’s developing more and more every year,” she said.

Only 38% of people in the U.S still read newspapers, people just watch the news on the television or just read the news on their phones. Sarah Makki, a 15 year old sophomore at Fordson High School says, “It’s a huge part of everyone’s life and we rely on it too much to do simple things.” She says that people do depend on technology way too much. “People get too distracted, technology is being taken too far because it does everything for us when we can do it without technology,” Sarah says. “Technology has its advantages and disadvantages, like it can affect a person in a bad way but it also helps people.” Many people with agree with Sarah. People just use it to make it easier on their lives.

What do you think about technology? Does it help people in a bad or good way? Technology is developing. Every new thing it brings up is more interesting and surprising. The technological advancements they make every year grabs everyone’s attention because in one year, the advancements makes every simple thing so easy when you can just do it without technology. Some kids do not know about writing letters are because they can just text message a person. Also, some people can’t read maps to take them places because the GPS does the job for them. In conclusion, would we be able to survive without technology.

Zeinab Jouni

Middle School Journalist