Question

please explain how advances in technology effect personal relationships. That is, with the advent of email, texting, online dating, skyping, tweeting, instagram, etc. Do you think relationships are better today or more challenged? Please give examples to support your opinions.

Answer 1

Technology has been the embodiment of what advancement is all about. Though technology boasts about the easiness of life, how convenient it has made for people to communicate their wishes, opinions, and emotions over a single tool (mobile, internet etc) in just a blink of an eye. It is astounding what technology can do. No more do people have to wait for an eye-to eye contact, no more do people have to wait for their partners to return from business trips, for technology carries their opinions, anywhere in the world and at any given time. What a privilege it is for a man to be born in these days of a great boon, technology.

I agree, there are a lot of advancements, and advantages over the many social networking websites but there are disadvantages too. Over the years, everything has become haste. We have learnt to reply hastily, and expect an answer hastily, become impulsive hastily, and respond to an emotion hastily. We need everything that we expect to be done fast. Because we live in a world such as this. We have slowly begun to become impatient, so much so that our life is dependent on technology rather than relationships.

With the advent of email, texting, online dating, skyping, tweeting, instagram, etc.. relationships have become more challenged. It so happened that a man was chatting with a girl on facebook, and he started impressing the girl so much, by telling how he excels in education, and how successful he was in career, and how rich he is and the like. As days went by, the girl became more interested in his affairs, that one fine day, the man proposed to her and she accepted. All this was online! They never met each other, however the girl had exchanged few photos of her and the man gave her his fake photos. However, one fine day both of them decided to meet, and he asked her to travel for about 1,000 k.m. and she did travel a long distance to meet this man but unfortunately, she was deceived by his appearances as he was a middle-aged man, not just that, he was also a prostitute agent. He forced her into prostitution and she was raped until one day she finally took all the courage to lodge a complaint against the man.

This is just one such incidents out of several thousands. Relationships today have become so vulnerable due to these technologies. Deception, manipulation, lies, cheating, are the main tools of a technology-based relationship. However, it is always important to not solely dwell on technologies and make it a necessary form of communication. For what is better communication than just a face-to-face contact? So let us take the good aspects of technology and avoid it making an important platform for our relationships until and unless it is very necessary.