Can you imagine a world without the Internet, computers and mobile phones? How are we going to live without all that? Today I am going to talk to you about how technology affects our friendship and plays the important roles in our lives. In the past, we made friends with classmates in the school, played sports with friends at outdoor, talked with friends face-to-face. Long-distance friends wrote letters to stay in touch.
We enjoy our staying with each other by sharing our lives.Today, technology provides us many different ways to stay in touch with our friends, people can just simply dial a phone number to talk or video chat with a friend live abroad, or use Facebook this kind of social networking site to get to know the latest news of our friends. Technology really brings us a lot of convenience and quickness in our daily lives. We can always stay up to date with our friends wherever and whenever we are doing.All we need is just a smartphone that can connect to the Internet.
However, technology has its negative effect on friendship. Nowadays, people become lazy to talk face-to-face with their friends because they use instant messaging instead. People can make friends with anyone on the Internet, without knowing who they really are. Sometimes, we will meet bad guys using Internet to cheat people. In this point of view, technology badly affects the relationship with our real friends.
This is because people rely too much on the machines and technology to maintain the relationships with friends. This results in people having weak interpersonal skills and social skills in the real world. But anyway, how technology affects our lives depends on how we are going to use them. We should be careful when surfing on Internet and keep regular face time with friends, technology can really help a lot in our friendship.
