CSC 408

MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM

ARTICLE ASSIGNMENT

TITLE: TECHNOLOGY IMPACTS IN OUR QUALITY OF LIFE AND NEGATIVE

SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES OF SYSTEMS.

NAME: NUR MASTURA BINTI MUSTAFA KAMAL

MATRIC NUMBER: 2020960941

CLASS: KAM228 4B

LECTURER: MADAM ASMA AMIRA ADENAN

DATE OF SUBMISSION: 19TH NOVEMBER 2020

 Technology advancement nowadays has been widely spreading all around the world as
human knowledge developing over time with variety of information and scientific inquiry
along with the skills they learnt. As a human being that lives in todays era we never be apart
from our gadget and social platform as the enhancement of the technological improve highly
and advance to makes one life easier from the mobile phone, laptop devices to machineries.
For better and worse, students and workers doing business to gain large quantities of social
studies knowledge outside of the classroom and their work environment. In student’s aspect
making connections between teacher lessons and the outside world can help students find,
make, and enhance meanings. In addition, students often need help understanding the
enthusiasm that surrounded emerging technologies of the past because they seem obvious now
as it has a major affect in our life that brings pros n cons. However, the impact of technology
in our life has become apparent as it also derived an affect that we never know changed
something in ourselves.

The first negative impacts of technology on social change is it will change one
behaviour of a person along with the attitude when they use it in a long term. As people
nowadays tend to be with their phone like all the time without even know what happen in their
surroundings, they did not notice that they are lacking in term of communication with others.
Plus, their attitude change as they think that the priority is the gadget and their works not the
surroundings people which is alive. These people lack ignorance of their surrounding as they
always stick with that one tool that they did not even know change their attitude with the people
in surroundings. Moreover, it can affect the mental of one person as they did not even care
about the other people concerns. This can embark the negative vibes to the other people as the
youth nowadays always ignore their older advices and being rude to them when the eldest give
a warning or reprimand them in one situation for their own good. On the other hand, our
growing obsession with technology has caused an increase in depression rates globally and
made people feel more alone than ever as a study in the US stated that in 2018 almost half the
population was lonely, with the highest percentage coming from our younger generations. As
a population, we have been overusing technology to replace what we as humans need to be
happy. (Jaya, 2019)

The second negative impacts of technology on social change is the generation will
forget the traditional ways to communicate. The population that increase day by day in a nation
gives frighten to the old generation as they are being so narcissism about how lame it is for the
old generation to not know about the advancement of technology nowadays. They will rather
mock the others that blind in technologies as they forgot how the people in the past has bought
them advances to what they have now today. These bring disgraceful to the one who is being
mock, and it can lead to conflict and disputes between both generations as they have different
perspective and views. These two generations should be having a same or an understanding
with each other as they live in a world where technology bring a better future for us with an
expanding machineries or technologies. Thus, in order to make it peaceful between both
generations the community must joint forces together in enhancing the learning of social media
to spread a notice to the elders to be aware of the negative and bad impacts that could occur if
they do not have a knowledge about how the gadgets works in life today. This is because of
the misuse of technologies where they can scam or fraud a people that does not have knowledge
in the area such as the elders or the kids itself.

Furthermore, the impacts of technology in our life is where it can give affect to our
brain or mental health when one cannot take their eyes off from the technologies itself. This is
happening because they are addicted to with their gadgets or devices all the time which there
are even a person who does not sleep or eat just because of these electronic devices.
Advancements in technology have improved our health immensely over the years. Mental
health and physical health should be separately discussed about as both of this health is
important to be taken care of. In accordance with the addiction they have, they do not even
notice that it has impact their mental health along with physical needs that they should
consume. The social media addiction has a dark side because we have developed a society that
is obsessed with being connected alongside with the business and the connection we made. In
fact, we have lost the ability to be with the person we used to as we are constantly on our
phones and never leave it. In addition, the community use social media as an outlet to be mean
and cruel with others because they feel safe behind a technologies screen when they said the
mean and inappropriate words or writing to the person they want to attack or hurt their feelings
as no one is accountable for their actions when this cyberbullying occur. In the meantime,
people constantly compare themselves to other people that only shows their “best lives” in it
as they are hiding the truth behind the technology’s devices. (Eileen Danaher Hacker, 2010)
 Subsequently, some of the negative social consequences of systems is where a person
can a have a problem in dealing with his social skills in communicating with another person.
The reason why they are lacking in communicating with them is because there are used to
communicate with their gadgets rather than in real life using the social media platform. The
feelings when they met the person online in a real-life scene can be awkward as they do not
usually meet in person and sometimes, they might feel shy at the first introductory between
them. Therefore, they would be uncomfortable when have a communication in a two way in a
person instead of chatting in their devices. This virtual communication sometimes can get
intense when one has an argument or misunderstanding as people would interpret one texts in
different tones that would lead to miscommunication. For instance, when a person first time
met together after a long time contacting through their gadgets, there are some that tends to be
nervous when meeting their partner as they usually talking through the technologies instead of
having a communication in real time. (Huessy, 1979)

After that, the consequences on negative social of system is where people can get an
unnecessary feeling as they go through the social platform in the system. In highlighting these
point the reason is because people sometimes going through the social media and afterwards
has these feelings where they are insecure or unsatisfied emotions that occur as they have seen
the others best life instead of the real scene in life. The feelings of ungrateful will be coming
as they think their life is not that great like others and they would mock themselves as
insecurities hits them and then depression come next as they only focuses on the ‘best lives’
that they saw in the social media. This can made individual mental health decrease and at some
point lead to an unexpected live events such as suicide in taking their life as they think they are
not worth it in living the life they have now without thinking the consequences or the loved
ones. In order to avoid things like this from happening people should have a mind set where
‘love yourself’ and ‘positive vibes’ is priority in todays life as we can see a lot of people
succeed in their life by not letting the bad or negative vibes get into their minds.

Apart from that, the other consequences are when the workforce of human being is not
being used anymore and it was being replaced by the machineries or technologies
advancements that has been going through in our daily life. In this point we can see that as we
are moving forward into a technology era we could that most of the human tasks are being
replaced with these technologies devices as it make the human life routine more easier and
more efficient. In these matters the purposes of technologies is to make one life at ease and
save our times along with energy on some tasks. However, in the high tech of today’s
technology the consequences that we can see in the aspect of work forces that is being replaced
with technologies devices where this give affect to a persons lives as they could lose their jobs
because of the technology advancement itself and make them lost their income to survives in
today’s adventurous world. As we can see that most people do not have a fixed job and could
lose their current job anytime without a backup plan from these situations. Likewise, these
could impact the life of the people that has a low-income job as it could been hard for them to
find a job as the requirements are high to be fulfilled. Thus, one should have a necessary backup
plan when these situations take places to avoid from having a job loss.
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