Technology is Destroying our abilities to communicate

One of our world’s most powerful and advanced technologies is destroying the ways that people live. This technology is for communication. That’s right, the one thing that we constantly use to communicate is actually hindering our abilities to communicate. This paradox is quite understandable if you realize that we use communication technology to push ideas to one another more often than we actually speak. A fact sheet published the UnitedStates Department of Commerce states that a whopping 96 percent of working Americans use new communication technologies as a part of their daily life. That overwhelming percentage of users means that people are starting to communicate through a screen more than through personal means at an increasing rate.

 Through their massive use communication technologies pass information more efficiently and faster than through word-of-mouth. Although Technology seems to help connect people together, it has many negative effects including a loss of social skills, a lack of emotional engagement to a conversation, and a creation of detachment between conversers.