Golden Olympus Colleges

Oral Communication
HUMSS

Vien Maeren P. Javier

11- Aphrodite

Persuasive Speech

We are now living in this reality, where people’s life are bound in gadgets. The
question is, does technology helped people to connect or this isolate them?

Let me tell you all a story about a boy who have been far away from his real
parents for twelve years. This boy sells daing to survive his daily expenses. Until one
day, a netizen got amazed of how the boy sell his products. “I got amazed by his sales
talk” said the netizen “We asked him about his background and we find out that he’s not
living with his parents. I decided to post his story on Facebook because I want to help”.
After a couple of weeks, my cousin told me that the parents of the boy was looking for
him. That’s the statement of the netizen named Jewel. Because of her Facebook post,
Lance’s parents found him. This story was featured on Wish Ko Lang.

Imagine how technology help this boy to found his real parents. It’s not true that
technology isolate people because it helps us especially now that we are experiencing
pandemic. Where not all individual is allowed to go out, but because of technology we
are able to connect with everyone. We are now having an online class with the use of
technology. Technology help us in terms of emergency. Technology makes our life
easier, it also help us connect with our love one who worked overseas. Technology is a
solution, not a problem. Technology doesn't isolate us. It’s just the people's mind who
thinks technology is isolating us. People isolate people, and that's the truth.