iWrite - Kate Sommer

Technology is everywhere in our society. Everywhere we look someone is on their phone, listening to music, on a laptop; whatever they're doing, technology is unavoidable. I feel like people our age or older had the opportunity to grow up, at least partially, without as much technology. Now and days there are 6 year olds with iPhones when I didn't even get my 1st phone until 6th grade, and it was nowhere close to an iPhone. I feel like kids now don't play outside or use their imagination as much as we did when we were little. My whole childhood was basically spent outside but now when I see kids outside, half the time they have phones with them.


I feel like technology has had a negative effect on our society in the respect that people are dependent on technology for entertainment and they don't use their imagination as much.


There have been multiple times that I've been to distracted by technology while trying to finish school work and have had to turn it off or put it in another room so I could get my work done. That shouldn't be necessary. We, as a society, have an addiction to technology that is hindering our ability to be productive. I'm even listening to music on my phone as I write this. There have also been numerous times when I meant to go to bed early and I got distracted by laptop or my phone and ended up staying up hours later then I meant to.