Technology distorts human social interactions. People have lost the ability to actually converse with one another face to face. Resisting Facebook and texting compares with turning down a martini for an alcoholic. You can see the hold technology has when you try to engage in a conversation with someone who has a smartphone in hand. Eye contact: zero. Listening abilities: nada. You might as well be talking to a cucumber.
People are more distracted and the resulting distractions can have deadly consequences e.g. when cellphone-wielding drivers cause major accidents or the text-walking phenomenon in which pedestrians glued to their screens walk off curbs into passing traffic or open manholes. The urge to text or check email is so powerful it overrides our survival instinct.
A lack of concentration results in errors being made and a loss of sense of time can end up in burnt meals or children left at school, forgotten to be picked up.
Technology is disrupting children’s learning. Grades drop drastically when they’ve been watching too many TV shows instead of doing homework. Using text language has a negative effect on their English, particularly spelling. Plagiarism is more abundant than ever before.