The impact of Media and Technology on Families

Technology is a use of scientific knowledge for improving the way to do things. It has bee playing an important role in our life. It is common today that many developed countries are using high technology to run their works.

We have reached to the modern civilization thanks to the rapid advancement of technology. Moder technology expedites and facilitates social and personal life. Thus, modern technology plays a big role in the family life. From dawn to dusk, we use several technologies that make our life easier and comfortable. On the other hand, lives dependant on technologies brings forth some unusua circumstances frequently. Now-a-days, catastrophe that comes of the technology has become regular phenomenon. The technological changes impact greatly upon family life. Now, we will discuss the impact of technology on family life. 

Linking relatives together is one positive effect that technologies have on family life, and being instantly updated on other family members' status is also a huge benefit. One negative effect of computers on family life is less face-to-face contact between family members. In most families, each family member has their own computers or smart phones that are kept in their own rooms. Parents and children have lesser interaction to each other because they used to do spend their time with technology like Laptop, PSP, games on the internet, TV and so on. It is because children no longer spend time playing and engaging in activities with their parents or siblings. 

Technology is slowly changing the way we communicate with others and affecting our personal relationship. It has left us with the chance to meet people in a much easier ways. Most people, both children and adults spend quite a lot of time in texting friends and relatives, wasting money and using text speak as a way to communicate. Say for example, making a friend is now on a finger click, to gain a new friend you simply click on 'add as friend' and the other person accepts or denies you. 

Most children are not getting enough exercise in today's society, generally because parents can't be bothered to take their children to the park, while being afraid of letting their children play outside by themselves. For many parents, being able to get in contact with their children by phone isn't enough. Children will therefore spend most of their time hidden away in their bedroom, watching DVDs or playing computer games, while their parents sit around the house doing nothing particularly constructive with their time. 

Technologies have not just had negative effects on families; they have also had some positive ones. The use of Social Networking Service (SNS) through computer is one of the positive effects that technologies have had on families. With the use of computer functions such as; e-mail, messengers. twitter and skype, families can take care of things that they would otherwise have to leave the home to take care of. Using SNS also allow families to communicate with other family members who might not live close by. 

In conclusion, technology brings many benefits to people today, without technology people can't do work more productively and efficiently. However, it has negative impact to human either. Interaction between family and friends are getting lesser and lesser. Although there are also advantages to having so much technology at your fingertips families may want to weigh up pros and cons to make sure that they achieve an even balance between a quality family lives.