Information Overload

Essay # 1
 

Nowadays, technology is very important and useful in people´s life; this tool has made the daily life easier. It has changed the way people communicate and connect all over the world. The people wake up listening radio or the television, hearing news and advertisements every day. People stay connected all day in many different ways, which could cause an information overload, but if used in a proper way it will make our life easier. 

 

In our daily life, we have many ways to be connected, just by turning on the television or the radio, we start hearing news, but technology does not stop there. Now we can be connected to the internet all day, which in the past decade has become the most used way to be in contact with the world. It started with personal computers, evolving now in more sophisticated smartphones and tablets, making it a lot easier to be communicated.

The problem begins when we start getting an overflow of information, in most cases information that we do not need, or it is irrelevant for us. We see it on advertisements, social networks, messaging services, among many other things, and some people have become dependent on this, and it stops been just a tool, instead it becomes a vice or a necessity, forgetting about real contact with the world.

Living without technology is almost impossible, since it is a part of our lives; we need it at work, to study, to communicate with other people that are far away, to get informed with online newspapers, or to find any information that we need. But this could also be stressful because we get too much information from many different sources at the same time, and it could also make it difficult to concentrate on one thing. Besides this, being in front of a monitor for too many hours could be harmful to our sight, as so it could be to be typing too much on a cell phone.

Technology is always going to be a part of our lives, that is not going to change, but we need to learn to make a proper use of it, and not abusing the many sources of information it gives us. We need to do the best use of the information we get online or on television, and not get overloaded with information that is not going to be useful. We should fill out our own memory with important and useful information.