Anti-social is a Major Problem

People say Facebook is the main problem of teenagers being anti-social. I agree on this but I have a better idea of why teenagers are being anti-social. If you ask me, I would blame the technologies.

"The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

In the excerpt 'All The Cool Kids Are Quitting Facebook' by Jenna Wortham said that Facebook really connects people with each other but the side-effect would be less face-to-face communication. Humans become lazier each day and hoping that Facebook would connect them. They think that it easier and less time consuming by communicating through Facebook. This is true and after Facebook, variety of new machines exist.

Back to my first point. technologies nowadays have advanced itself until humans forget how to communicate properly. For example, the existence of smart phones. To be more accurate, I would like to talk about Blackberry phone. Blackberry phone consist of variety of applications that can connect people in a split-second. What would be the effects?

Less communication, people get lazier, fully depend on such machines and would hold on to it all the time (if possible). These effects clearly leave an impact in creating a productive society. People sit in one table but everyone is holding onto their phones and focus more on it.

People should be aware of how important this problem is. It can affect the productivity of future generations and it will turn humans into slaves. I personally think that people should spend most of their time communicate with other people by seeing face to face. With that, it will increase the brain development instead of sitting in one corner and play with the phones.