Jenevieve Limqueco C37

Information Technology Everywhere

Thesis Statement: Although information technology is beneficial in our

lives, we must lessen the use of it because it contributes to laziness, it

violates ones privacy, it invents dangerous things, it consumes a lot of energy,

and it shortens our lives.

I. Introduction

A. Definition of information technology

B. Benefits of information technology

C. Thesis statement

II. Body

A. Good effects

1. Makes life comfortable

2. Communicates to everyone easily

3. Invents new things

4. Creates products faster

5. Discovers new medicines

B. Bad effects

1. Contributes to laziness

2. Violates ones privacy

3. Invents dangerous things

4. Consumes a lot of energy

 5. Shortens our lives

III. Conclusion

A. Summary

B. Restatement of thesis statement

 Information Technology Everywhere

Information technology is the technology involving the development,

maintenance, and the use of computer systems, software and networks for

the processing and distribution of data. Information technology has many

benefits in our lives like it prevents error; it decreases the amount of paper

works, it creates products faster, it helps us save more time, it helps us

access more information easily, it helps us communicate faster, cheaper and

more efficient, and many more. Although information technology is beneficial

in our lives, we must lessen its use because it contributes to laziness, it

violates ones privacy, it invents dangerous things, it consumes a lot of energy,

and it shortens our lives.

Information technology has made our life more comfortable because

we can access information easily and it can help us save more time, but it

contributes to our laziness. One example of this is that when a student has a

research in school, all hes going to do is type the word in the internet and

hell copy-paste the information and prints it, rather than hell borrow books

from the library and reads it one by one. Moreover this could be a harder way

than typing the word in the internet and print it. Thats one of the reasons why

we must reduce the use of information technology, as a result of were getting

lazy and the importance of books in our lives is slowly fading away.

Information technology also helps us in communicating with our friends

and relatives who are far from us. Despite the fact that it helped us in getting

in touch with our friends and family easily, it doesnt mean that we have

privacy in our lives and it is safe for us. Considering that we posted something
in a social networking site, it would be seen or read by a lot of people and we

cant say that all of these people are good, for sure one person from those

people is a bad person. And this bad person would tend to do something bad

to you, if they saw some important information from your social networking

sites that may result to something good for him/her. This is another factor why

we should minimize the use of information technology for the reason that the

privacy of a person is being violated.

Information technology also helped us in discovering new medicines to

cure different sicknesses like different kinds of cancer, diabetes, allergies,

kidney stones, and many more. Yet information technology also shortens our

life span due to the radiation it emits. According to Merriam-Webster, radiation

is the combined process of emission, transmission and absorption of radiant

energy. Radiation is dangerous because it has bad effects in our body. For

example if we are exposed to so much radiation, our nerve cells and small

blood vessels will slowly die. And it could cause seizures and immediate

death. This is just an example and there are many more examples of the bad

effects of radiation (Effects of radiation on the Human Body). So, I say that we

need to stop using information technology to lessen the people getting sick

and dying because of radiation being emitted by information technology.

Information technology helped us again to invent new things, and these

new inventions that we have are robots that can act like a human, more high-

tech computers, tablets, medical mirror, point and print, silicon saver, and

many more. However, some people use information technology to invent

things that are destructive like different kind of bombs, nuclear, weapons, and

many more. These dangerous inventions can be a cause of peoples death if it

was used improperly. This is another reason why we need to reduce the

usage of information technology, so that the inventions of dangerous things

would be lessened.

Information technology helped us to produce products in a short time.

However it consumes a lot of energy and makes a lot of pollution in our

environment. For example, factories emit smoke. These smokes contain

gases that affect the air, especially the ozone layer. As a result, people would

suffer from sickness like cancers. Another disadvantage is that information

technology is one of the factors why people are losing their jobs. The main

reason is that technology can produce products faster and in a shorter time

than any other human being. Thats why we need to minimize the use of

information technology to lessen the usage of energy, to lessen the pollution

in our environment and to decrease the number of unemployment around the

world (Some advantages and disadvantages of information technology).

In conclusion, I believe that information technology is not just

favourable to us in our daily lives but also unrewarding. Unrewarding since it

contributes to laziness, it violates ones privacy, it shortens our lives, it invents

dangerous things, and it consumes a lot of energy. These are just some

reasons why information technology is unrewarding. So, we need to limit the

usage of information technology to avoid the unrewarding effects of it.

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