Technology Make Us More Alone Analysis

Technology Make Us More Alone
Nowadays, technology has become part of our life. People spend greater time on using technology such as television, smartphone, computer, and Internet. People use technology with reasons to be more comfortable in their life. They use technology whether to entertain, communicate, studying, or doing job. This show that technology brings a lot of benefits to our life however not only benefit it also bring outcomes such as loneliness. Nowadays people are more likely to use their smartphone or have a connection with Internet by using a number of technology product to gain happiness than having several times to communicate or going out with their friends or family members. This shows that people today are more alone
According to Bhardwaj and Ashok (2015), when the phone is missing, the mobile phone bills and the abrupt actions will be predicted by them. The major cause for excessive use of smartphone is too much of functions. Smartphone has numerous functions provided such as communication, business trading, education, entertainment media, and even clinical applications. This cause the user of smartphone have tons of activities can carry out by using smartphone such as calling, texting, banking, reading book, and a number of application, among them the Line, WeChat, WhatsApp, Lazada, Facebook, Viber, Google Maps, YouTube, and iTunes. Essentially, smartphone is a good tool for communication and entertain if people use it wisely and conventionally because all the facility are in the smartphone and it is convenient for us to bring and use whenever they need or crave, however it can also be worse to the user when people use all of this facility too excessively. The problem comes when the people cannot restrict their use in accordance with the needs (Bhardwaj & Ashok, 2015). According to Jung-Yeon (2014), a decrease in social interaction and relationship problem will be caused by excessive use of smartphone. This is why people who use smartphone excessively will have higher chance to have the problem of loneliness. Furthermore, as smartphone is
It is popular and people today love to use it. Internet is good, according to Odaci and Kalkan (2010, as cited in Ozsaker et al. 2015), it enable people to share information and facilitating communication between people if people did not influence their daily life. On the other hand, if people use Internet in a countless of time, it will decreased psychological well-being, relationship breakdown and neglect of domestic, academic and work responsibilities (Ganul 2002; Hardie and Yi-Tee 2007, as cited in Ozsaker et al. 2015). This is the effect for the people who cannot stop the desire of using Internet and that is what people call as Internet addiction. Internet addiction is an addiction that become more popular. According to Block, (2008) more than 10% of adolescent Internet users were identified as Internet addict in China. Generally, the reasons for the student who suffer Internet addiction is they wish to escape from the real world into the online world due to the novelties and difficulties come from university (Celik & Odaci 2012, as cited in Ozsaker et al. 2015). Moreover, the people who have Internet addict are having higher loneliness level and they are more behavioural inhibition in interpersonal relations compare with the others (Batigun and Hasta, 2010, as cited in Oguz & Cakir, 2014). Furthermore, Internet addict will also cause face to face interaction become less common due to