Technology: Don't Get Left Behind

Blau, Melinda. "The Relationship Revolution: The Internet as a new way of life." Psychotherapy Networker. Psychotherapy Networker, Sept. 2010. Web. 05 Apr. 2011.

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Melinda Blau, the author of The Relationship Revolution, discusses how technology is overriding the lives of people. She is mind boggled about how certain devices are able to track where people are at. Even, from one device one can track someone else on their device. She thinks this is a crazy thought because people are doing more talking on technology devices than actual people these days. Melinda believes technology is taking over, whether you are relying on technology or not. She sees’s it as someone is always there to listen. She explains that she can just put something on Facebook and right away someone is going to comment on her status and they’ll tell her what they think about it. Blau gets to the point when she says that when you just write something on someone’s Facebook page, or wishes them happy birthday, that you are doing a good deed. This is sadder than most because all you’re doing is writing on cyber space where, people used to go face to face, or call them to wish them a happy birthday.
Relationships between the internet and humans are getting closer each day. People are relying a lot of the internet to help them out on an everyday basis. Shouldn’t people being helping people out on an everyday basis rather than the internet? Blau points out that people may be at risk because of the internet taking over. Or, people won’t know how to work the next piece of technology and they’ll be left behind. But she has done a study that after certain about of days the people who were new to the device learned it in 5 days. They even scanned their brain in an MRI and the MRI found that their brain had already developed new pathways that had never been touched. People are getting to the point where you don’t have to send them a phone call or a face to face visit anymore, they are able to just shoot a comment on Facebook. No one is needed to let somebody know where you are at, because you can just tweet something on twitter. People are getting lazier and lazier and will one day not make an appearance face to face. This may cause some social problem in the long run. Melinda Blau makes a fine point on how our relationship with the new pieces of technology is getting out of control. But it’s happening everyday and it’s happening fast and everyone should jump on the technology train or we’ll get left behind. Melinda asks the question if our grandchildren will be able to know an answer without getting on a search engine. So I believe she is challenging us to not rely on technology and not create a distinct relationship with technology because we don’t need it to take over.