--- title: "Technology Making Us More Alone" description: "Being alone is the worst fear of any person. So, to be in this world we need to be connected physically with the society instead of being with technology." author: "UTKARSHA SINGHROUL" published: 2018-11-14 updated: 2018-11-14 canonical: https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/250/technology-making-us-more-alone category: "technology" tags: ["Technology Making us Alone", "Technology make us alone", "Technology", "Lonely"] reading_time: 3 minutes --- # Technology Making Us More Alone **Being alone is a big deal. It is much worse than being overweight or any other [health-related issue](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/219/hygiene-and-health).** Loneliness can increase the risk of dying by 26% according to the researchers. Being in the year 2018 we are so much dependent on the technology that it is almost impossible to do any work without the use of technology. And this extreme use of technology is decreasing the interaction between peoples. ![Technology Making Us More Alone](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/viewsolution/8846e33f-c0a9-41b1-8af5-0ddb9ee74c1c/images/7d03454d-2a2e-4cc2-9019-973df03d62f7.jpeg)\ Use of technologies like Mobile Phones and [Social Media](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/205/the-social-media-sanity) (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and many other mediums) making us more alone as we are always depending on it. Constant use of Mobile Phone for chatting or texting and frequent appearance on [Social Media](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/205/the-social-media-sanity) lead us to compare our lives with others. **This comparison makes us feel lonely and sad about over self that why others are happy and I’m not or how he or she got so many likes and comment on his/her picture and I don’t. All these comparisons can make you think a lot and could also generate some mental issues like [depression](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/99/why-is-everyone-depressed).** We are so much involved in using the technology that we are even preferring to talk or chat with people through mobile phones or by social media, due to this we are losing our basic communication skills. Even nowadays, small kids are also very much prone to use mobile phones for watching videos or playing games instead of using [Gadgets](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/19/excessive-use-of-electronic-gadgets-is-leading-to-hampering-of-analytical-skills-of-students) like Televisions, Video Games and toys. It is very harmful for kids to use mobile phones for such a long period of time. ![Technology Making Us More Alone](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/viewsolution/8846e33f-c0a9-41b1-8af5-0ddb9ee74c1c/images/dd29d286-cddf-4025-bc09-56fffd871478.jpeg)\ **Everyone likes to make [friends](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/195/hey-isolation-let-s-be-friends) and have a huge social group to hang out with**. Being in this technological environment we still want a huge friends group to hang out with but we don’t want to hang out physically with our friends. We prefer to chat through phone instead of meeting them. **To make a huge social group of friends we add many unknown and bad guys in our friend list. Here, we ignore the fact that friendship can survive for a long time only when we choose quality friends for us, not the quantity friends.** We are very much addicted to technology and Social Media but now it’s high time to realize our mistakes and focus towards changing our [habits](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/204/such-an-indian-thing). When you are with your friend, then just enjoy that time and be with them instead of being busy on the phone. **There is no any second thought that technology is good for us, but it is also a thing which could affect our health, tear us apart from the [society](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/165/a-society-i-dream-of) as well as with the family. So, we need to make changes in our daily habits on how dependent we are on the technology, mobile phones, and Social Media.** --- Original Source: https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/250/technology-making-us-more-alone Copyright © MindStick Software Pvt. Ltd. This Markdown version is provided for developers, AI systems, and offline reading.