We all have a part in our life that’s involved with technology. Most people never leave the house without their phone in their pocket or bag.

To be honest, can you even imagine living without modern technology or internet?

It’s hard to avoid technology nowadays because everything reflects back to internet.

For example, books you would buy or borrow can be read online, or instead of going to the grocery shops you can order it on your device and have it delivered.

No wonder people don’t go outside and are developing an addiction to screens.

Social skills play a main part in our life. Interacting with people promotes a healthy lifestyle but with the huge range of technology access that this generation has to offer, people would rather talk online or over apps.

Imagine you are walking into a shop and you see someone you know. Most people these days would rather walk away from the person without talking to them and then, later that day, go on their device and have a conversation with the same person.

We can’t be blamed for developing an addition to technology. We depend on the internet for everything. It’s extremely hard to avoid.

Most people born after the year 1990 have never known life without internet and mobile communication. For example at schools, teachers use computers for marking roles, students use iPads to download apps for school tasks and textbooks.

Eventually no one with have to move or do anything because it will all be done for them by technology.

“It’s not a drug, but it might as well be,” Robert Lustig, a professor of peadiatrics, said in online business forum Quartz.

It works the same way … it has the same results.”

Too much use of technology can cause stress in the brain.

Although, Jenny Radesky, a developmental-behavioral peadiatrician said in the same article, Expert opinions on whether kids are addicted to tech, published in February: 

 “From the early childhood perspective, we don’t use the word ‘addiction’ clinically or in research because it is early childhood…we use the idea of ‘functional impairment,’ when media use is getting so heavy that the content is influencing a child’s behavior.”

It’s going to get worse though because more and more inventions will be created most likely tech-related.

People need to rediscover life without technology and take a step back from where we are today.

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