Technology have been around for quite a while and most of us use it on a day to day basis. We use them for different reasons and we wouldn’t be able to some tasks without their help. We’ve produced so many to the point where people are starting to ask themselves whether technology is consuming our daily lives. Are humans consumed by technology more than we think we are? We are not consumed by technology because they help us communicate with other easily, and they are one source of entertainment people like to use. Although a strong case could be made that teenagers are spending too much time on social media, this is irrelevant because they develop skills that would benefit them in the future.

Technology helps us with our day to day connections with other. Most of us own a cell phone due to the fact that you could communicate with others from faraway distance. That is a huge benefit to have because no one can be at every single place at the same time. There were many situations where I needed to contact friends or family members that were not in the same vicinity as me. According to pewinternet.org, “44% of cell owners have slept with their phone because they wanted to make sure they didn’t miss any calls, text messages, and 29% of cell owners describe their cell phone as “something they can’t imagine living without.” (http://pewrsr.ch/OotDJE). What this evidence shows is that only 29% of the US feel like they can’t live without compared to the rest of the world. We are not consumed by technology and instead rely heavily on them for how beneficial they can be in certain times.

One source of entertainment we have is technology. Whether you like working with gadgets or playing videos games, in the end, you are always satisfied and you feel that sense of happiness or achievement. According to bgr.com its states that “The highest avarage amount of time a person spends on the computer is two hours each day” (http://bit.ly/1cfaeGS). What this means is that out of the 24 hours they spend, only two hours are used in playing video games which is not a lot compared to what other things we do in our daily lives. E-Sports have been considered as a real sport by many people due to the fact that the game requires lots of trust, unity, and communicating skills and recently, an annual tournament called The International for the game Dota 2 has been aired on ESPN. I’ve been playing Dota 2 for three years now and I still way far from being able to play the game on a high skill level. The game heavily functions on finger memory and your team because there are many ways to win games in Dota 2. The Metagame is always changing and so, it is always fresh and new. The prize pool for this year's international is 18 billion dollars. I fail to see how people think that we are consumed by a source of entertainment when we are able to make a living just by playing our favorite game. Us gamers are addicted to video games because they offer some sort of challenge that makes us want to keep playing the game and people fail to realize that that is the case.

Some may argue that today, many teens spend countless hours on social media chatting away with their friends, and that they spend too much time on social media and not face to face talking with someone else. According to CNN.com, kids at the age of eight to 15 spend average around nine hours a day on social media (http://cnn.it/1N33WJM). What this this means is that, most kids spend so much time on social media that they forget everything else in their schedule and spend their valuable hours on facebook. While this argument might sound convincing at first, many people fail to consider the benefits of different social medias. According to smallbusiness.chron.com, teens are able to improve their marketing, communicating, and networking skills (http://bit.ly/1QWH96d). These are completely true because the way Facebook functions correlate with those three things. When people post an update and it gets popular teens get to react to the post and possibly follow the trend, just like how a market works. If its getting you lots of money then people are going to steal your idea or formula and use it as their own. Since teens are always reacting to different posts each day, they know how to respond to the latest trend. Teens are also able to gain lots of connections easily with the help of Facebook. The more friends you have, the more benefiting it is for you. If you have lots of friends that you trust and are willing to help you, you can ask their friends to help you out too and that way, you’ll easily gain lots of people that can potentially help you in the future. There are pros and cons to everything out there, but, the pros of using Facebook heavily outweighs the cons.

In conclusion, we use technology to our convenience, our entertainment, and for efficiency. If we were to go back in time, before the industrial revolution where there was barely any technology, the world wouldn’t be as advanced and creative as we are now. In our current world, we’ve invented so many objects that are always included in our daily lives and they’ve helped us with many troubles. I wouldn’t say that we are consumed by technology but we are more reliant on them.