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How can one describe modern society without mentioning, elaborating on, the role of technology? Technology has taken a hold of our society and changed the way our daily lives are carried out. Many benefits have come from this technological advantage, such as global communication and cleaner, greener solutions to global problems. As technology has become a bigger part of our society, these benefits have become overlooked and a societal obsession with technology has taken root. Technological obsession has created a “mental pollution” filled with infinite tabs online all at the tip of our fingers. This obsession has detached us from the real world. We have become better acquainted with our phone than most of the people in our classes and in person pass by friends who we text all the time. Take a look in any classroom at Troy High and you will see the effect of technology on youth. Classes deathly quiet as students are transfixed by their phones, the eerie luminesce of phone screens lighting up 30 faces. Headphones litter ears as students immerse themselves in the wonder of technology. Even with younger children the obsession continues. At band concerts, children read music off iPads and tablets. Each elementary student has been “gifted” an iPad for studies. Study and technology. How many times have those words been stated together, almost like a bane to modern society. Our obsession has ripped our world in two, one set in relationships and human connection and the other set online with technological connections. Many will question me, what does this mean? What is the solution? To that I answer I don’t know. I don’t know what will tear our generation from our phones and begin to focus on each other again, but I know that whatever it is that will must happen soon. Our obsession must end. Ask yourself, can you put your phone down for a week?

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