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Priscilla Ceja, Jennah Chu

English 3H, Block 5

Mrs. Storer

22 October 2019

Technology; More Connected, Yet More Alone

Picture yourself as a freshman in a new classroom where there are many new students.

No one is willing to start a conversation because they are all scared. Eventually, a student picks

up their phone and all the other students follow suit. Taylor, a student who uses technology says,

“I think if one person is staring at their phone, everyone else tends to do it, whether it be self-

consciously or just in order to avoid an awkward situation.” Undeniably, most people feel the

urge to grab their phone when they don’t know how to socialize. Does it ever occur to one that

many times, one depends on their phone to cope with loneliness? Therefore, when people are in

an awkward situation, their phones make them even more distant.

Technology makes people more alone rather than bringing them together. In the

following are the reasons we should limit our phone usage:

Charlene deGuzman, a famous actress and comedian suggests that technology gets in the

way of real socializing with one of her YouTube videos.

The First of the Ten Commandments states, “Thou shalt not have other gods before me”

(Exodus 20:3). We find it a habit to worship our phones instead of our God.

We are flooded with screens from the moment we are born. A study from the

International Center for Media and the Public Agenda verifies, “Most children and teens spend

75 percent of their waking lives with their eyes fixed on a screen.”

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People should restrict their need for their phones. If they do, they will connect with more

with others. Although it will be a challenge, or seem frightening at first, it will be worth it in the

end to have initiated a conversation because one will have made better connections with people

in real life.