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Technology Addiction Essay
Technology Addiction Essay
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Use and abuse of new technologies
Francisco Javier Morales Muñoz | Team No. 3
12/10/2018
Use and abuse of new technologies.
Thanks to the analysis of the document used to support the selected topic, we
were able to realize that the estimates or even predictions that we had made over
time were mostly correct, because as we already know, technologies came to bring
about a change, both for good and bad, and it is this part that our investigation
focuses on, the bad.
From a medical point of view, this situation is alarming, because technologies have
managed to occupy the position of a necessity in our lives and not that of a support
tool, as it should be. According to Ángeles Gonzales I. Abuse of these can
become a complete addiction, completely distorting the use that should be given to
these tools. And I quote, “From a biological point of view, it has been seen that
these behavioral addictions act through neuronal receptors and neurotransmission
systems very similar to those that generate addiction to toxic drugs.”
As read in the previous paragraph, when circumstances go beyond our control and
are treated as additions to substances, then our alarms must go off, since in these
cases specialized medical treatment is needed.
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University Students and Social Networks
Social networks.
Are college students addicted to social media?
University students are people who study at a higher level, in the vast majority of
cases
We have tools, such as cell phones, laptops, computers and other devices in
which,
Among many things, we can enter social networks, but is it an addiction that we
have with social networks?
Do young university students really know that they are addicted to social
networks?
But before answering these questions, what is a social network? Social networks
are internet sites that are
formed by communities with common interests (friendship, work, personal tastes,
social activities) and these
They allow us to get in touch with our friends and family.
Social networks have given us a new vision of different aspects of our lives, one
of them being
addictions, and the ease of communicating. In a study carried out with university
students from Granada, Seville
Málaga and Córdoba, in Spain, were trying to find out if students were
considered addicted to social networks.
The result of this research was that some do not feel addicted to the Internet or
social networks, and that
Women have a greater distance from social networks.
The researchers, according to the results obtained, say that Spanish students
are not addicted to social networks,
in his opinion. However, Spanish students have a lot of presence on social
networks, generally on Facebook
and Twitter, although many of them have special accounts for job searches.
conclusion.
In my opinion, social networks are already an important part of the society in
which we live, however, we know
that we are increasingly addicted to social networks and that it influences us
more and more, we can see that in the
Most of the time we deny our addiction to social media, even when we know we
spend too much time on it.
in these. Finally, it should be noted that there are many people who use the
internet for productive things,
for example, research, to read, to perform actions related to work and school, so
we can
To say that social networks or the internet are not bad, but rather the use we give
to these tools.