15 Signs that Technology is Damaging Your Personal Life

Really? You mean actually CALLING a person to solve a tech question is out of the question? I was asked what my password was for yahoo and when I couldn't "guess" it, they wanted to send an email to my virus infested OLD email account to see if it was really me. Is technolgy ruining our world, YOU BET. I called a friend to see when she could get together and she had to text another friend bacuase she had forgotten what day she had agreed to, Gees Louise, I'm sure my post witll be followed with (Check out this sarcastic post) with no one ever reading it,

Wow... my girlfriend spent way too much time in the computer, waisting time with Facebook and such but she does not reach any of the above and I believe she is experimenting enough of internet isolation. Myself, I am about to commit a Facebook suicide in closing my profile for ever but I have important contacts there, instead I started to delete people I barely know and with who I know I am not going to comunicate at all, some of them are people I met in a bar or party but that is it.

It's ironic that an Internet forum is a venue used to criticize technologically alternative methods of communication. I agree, though: all that stuff is a social ill.

Sadly, technology has actually allowed my unhappily parents to communicate better than ten years ago. Because they can email each other from across the hall.

I won't lie, I thought this article was hilarious! Yes, the article lists different behaviors (or 'signs') that could negatively affect one's personal life but there are two insights that this article neglects: the concept of behaviors taken to excess plus the article is missing the whole, "guns don't kill people, people kill people" logic.

Here is a mathematical representation of the first insight:
If alcohol imbibed in moderation doesn't = negative affects on one's personal life then = no problems. Conversely, if alcohol imbibed in excess = negative affects on one's personal life then = problems. Now replace the phrase [alcohol imbibed] with [technology used]. I just used alcohol as an example, plug in any example you like and see if it fits.

As far as the second insight, what I'm trying to assert is that it doesn't take technology to negatively affect one's personal life, technology is just one example of many examples that can negatively affect one's personal life. Just like with the logic of "guns don't kill people, people kill people"...guns are just an example. Substitute [guns] with [knives] or [nuclear bombs]...the message stays the same. All are horrific examples or instruments to senselessly or needlessly take life but my point is that it takes a person to push the button, wield the blade or pull the trigger.

I think its funny how most of the negative comments on this issue are from women! makes you wonder!

Definitely a two edge sword.

I have made some solid friendships that I wouldn't have otherwise made because of the technology, but messages by email, texting, and FB can be misconstrued by the best of us. You just don't have the luxury of seeing someone's expression or hearing the tone of voice behind the words. Sometimes I have to just turn off the computer and walk away.

Let's face it.....there is no replacing the sound of someone's voice on the phone or a real conversation in person with friends and family.

I am getting "shushed" a lot more these days and I don't like it one bit.

How I crave the personal interaction. People are afraid of showing there true selves. ugh.

It is replacing actual interaction between humans. People wonder why more youth seem to have socialization problems? They are not learning skills we have all learned for decades. I limit the time my teens are allowed to type away at the computer. I tell them to go actually talk and interact with someone! Eye contact and confidence interacting in public can not be taught via texts,e-mails, or ims. Like the saying goes-People need People.

I don't like how this post assumes that if you communicate with these forms of technology as much as indicated above, that you're giving up more intimate, one-on-one, in person communication. I talk to my mother on facebook all the time, while we're in the same house. We then talk face to face about it later. It allows for us to share written things such as notes, lists and recipes much easier and effectively.

At a recent holiday party the conversation turned to a political subject that I was out numbered on and would start a fight. It involves something very personal to me - I've experienced the death of a childhood friend due to it - so I went to the bathroom and txted my sister-in-law to blow off steam. A call would have been heard. I still talk to my sister-in-law - in fact, she lives on the other side of the state and because we talk about FarmVille so much we also talk about what's happened during our day or week.

And my autistic brother? It's like his autism isn't even there when we IM from one room to another. He's able to communicate without the frustration of verbal handicap. I thank GOD for the technology that enables us to do these things.

And for the record, I don't see anything wrong with spouses choosing to txt inappropriate-for-public banter to each other rather than share their sexual conversation with the entire group.

It seems like we are more and more afraid to have a face to face contact and we are avoiding to express ourselves in a real way and we rather to do it in the net. Some how we are putting more distance between us instead of getting closer to the loved ones.

There is nothing sweeter or more personal than writing a letter to a friend or loved one. Nothing beats talking on the phone to someone you have not spoken to in weeks or months.

Technology will never get in my way of connecting to a friend or family.

People are forgetting how to think, socialize, interact etc....I realize our grandparents most likely made this comment surrounding the advent of television and the telephone...but I believe the "new" stuff has taken everything to the nth degree.

Courtesy is a thing of the past [as people will talk on their phones in a public restroom, a HUGE pet peeve of mine]. The last man I was involved with texted me more than he talked to me. I hated it and told him to take a hike.

Now, I have a smart phone, I FB and do other socializing via the net, but it hasn't taken over my life!! I still talk to my friends, see them, DO NOT answer my cell in the toilet or while having dinner w/a friend, etc.... It's a tool-not a lifestyle.

Isn't #9 pretty normal? I have different accounts for different needs.

I like my Texting, IM, FB, all of it! Especially since my girlfriend lives 300 miles away! BUT, when we are together, my phone(and ALL my lil hang-ups) are dead to me as i am 100% in the moment with her the whole time. I even had to get on her about her cell phone addiction. She has gotten much better at not immediately checking the texts and emails that are coming in.

Although i enjoy my devices here in these modern times, i somehow can't wait til we as mankind are forced back into a civilization where we are living in a more cave man style. No Oil. No gas, No transportation. No electricity. The simple life will return, and my years of Boy Scouts and outdoors lifestyle will pay off big time!

I agree, I try and say anything friendly to someone at a store and I have gotten looks like my head is on backwards. People are so uncomfortable with having normal conversation now days its sad. Oh and try finding out your boyfriend is cheating on you by having your best friend find your boyfriends myspace page, thats he's not supposed to have, he has 200 different girls on it, and is telling one he loves her and says she is his fiance, which I was supposed to be. Isn't technology wonderful!?

I went on vacation with my boyfriend and like half the time he was on facebook(adressed that to him and he's slowing down on using facebook when he's around me becasuse he's cousin have to know where he is all the time). I only go on facebook when he's not around because we live 100 miles apart (when I am with him or out on the town hanging with people I turn my phone off or put it on vibrate) and I have friends that live far away as well I hate txting and calling isn't a good thing because most of the time they're busy doing they're thing. Some people take it to far.

what about p2p? downloading songs, movies, software, ebooks and games?

if you found out ur bf or gf was cheating on you idc who you are thats a good thing! would u rather not know at all and live a lie? AND UH HELLO THIS IS AN INTERNET POST SO THE ONLY WAY PPL CAN ACTUALLY SEE IT IS TO BE CONNECTED TO TECH STUUUPID!