Does Technology Separate Us or Bring Us Closer Together
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Does Technology Separate Us or Bring Us Closer Together Bundet Mar 22·10 min read

News hello hello welcome to today’s live YouTube lesson here on the speak English with an essay YouTube channel I’m so glad that you are learning English with me and taking time to participate even if you are watching the replay no problem please participate answer the questions give some feedback this is the place to use English. No problem all right to make sure that I don’t double here myself. Hi welcome home welcome the reason that you’re scared me gal I’m glad you’re here Douglas you are the first person to be here today perfect now that to some welcome I’m glad you’re here today we’ve got an interesting topic about technology technology so I wouldn’t know for you in your life.

What is your general opinion do you think technology. Bring us closer together or separates us I want to ask you this question right away today and then I will give some introduction and give you a chance to introduce yourself. I want to know what’s your opinion about today’s topic does technology help our relationships or hurt them. Let’s talk about it today we’ve got people from all over the world Indonesia actually from Indonesia great. Russia right from Brazil actually Miguel in Argentina I’m so glad you’re taking time today wonderful wonderful all we’ve got our first answer technology breaks all distances so we have one vote for technology bringing us closer together. I’m from Korea hello. Who never mind your yeah I’m glad you are here live welcome welcome says you can’t stand greets Honduras all this is such an international group I wonder if that answers our question today. This technology was responsible for how I met my wife so for you. You agree that technology brings us closer together in the real world very interesting. Vietnam welcome home welcome.

bundet.comWe’ve got technology helps us because we can chat with people in different countries all right we’ve got to to for bringing us closer together Gustavo says I think technology is sort of like a double edged sword Unifor expression it has pros and cons like everything else let’s talk about this expression for just a moment I double edged sword a double edged sword this means if you have a sword that you’re fighting withdrawal right. Both sides are short so it can cut on both sides this means that if you say technology is a double edged sword it means that we can see the positives and the negatives the pros and the cons of a topic and to date technology is definitely a double edge sword a double edged sword. So I want to ask you I want to ask you do you think people in your country people in your country use their phones too much. Do you think of people in your country use their phones too much. In the U. S.. I would say about 50 percent I think a lot of people use their phones at dinner with their family or when they’re in a cafe with their friends and maybe this is the negative side but a lot of people especially like my parents or the older generation they don’t use technology as much they’re not used to using their phones everywhere. We’ve got lots of yes is yes. Yes they don’t use it in a useful way always there that’s an important point. 90 percent of people use it it’s all manual says it’s everywhere yes it’s so annoying lots of people say yes.

The people use their phones too much. Jenny says in France of course all the time during dinner when you walk all the time people are using their phones. Yes he has a good point technology binds us even if we are physically far apart binds us by any means. Next connect us or ties together it ties us together I missed a comment earlier I forget who said it I’m sorry you can remind me later someone mentioned that their daughter is studying abroad in Ireland and they can communicate because of technology and I agree that is a beautiful thing a wonderful thing to be able to connect when people live far apart just like today we are connecting even though. We live in completely different places. I saw a lot of students using their phone in class he hasn’t even in the bathroom people are using their phones.

I understand people are using their phones all the time. Good for you I don’t use my phone during dinner wonderful wonderful good for you I think that’s a difficult thing to do but a lot of people use their phones and we might say this is an expression we can use to talk about. Bad distractions sometimes we say using your phone or using technology is an escape this is 2 words and A. N. and a skate E. S. C. A. P. E. it’s an escape and there’s a final part to this expression that we usually don’t say but it is implied implied means we know that it’s there but we don’t say it it means it’s an escape from the real world so people are escaping from maybe some problems or some difficulties in their daily life and they are looking at Facebook or watching YouTube videos instead of. The scene there problems facing their problems means looking at their problems and trying to deal with them so that’s the negative side the negative side is that maybe people use phones or technology as an escape as an escape but garland has a good point here he’s he says we went out using our phones we can’t learn English yes I think that is a great points now a days if you have access to the internet there’s no excuse you can find English material anywhere you can find English material here you can join people on Skype you can connect on Facebook. It is a useful tool for learning about the world. But for close relationships people close to you physically close to you the people you live with the people in the coffee shop people in a restaurant.

Maybe it’s not so good for them. Okay from result welcome welcome. Yes I want. I want to know for you do you have any advice any advice for people who want to use technology in a good way so they want to not use technology as in the skate they don’t want to use it as an escape they want to use it to learn English or to benefit themselves to limit their time with technology what is your advice do you have any way that people can try to limit themselves and that’s a great expression for talking about difficult things that you want to stop doing maybe you are eating too much chocolate or too many sweet things you say I need to limit we’re using this as a verb I need to limit the amount of chocolate that I eat I need to limit the amount of sugar that I eat I need to limit the time that I spend on. Devices or technology I have a good point using 2 G. phone this means this means you have to have no internet on your phone or it’s going to be very slow or costly yes don’t rely on the internet too much Sir big things pretty difficult but like you mentioned we can watch Vanessa’s videos thanks to technology yes so if you are interested in my opinion my opinion is similar to what you mentioned 2 things one thing it is technology is. -4 the people close to us the people who live in our household the people who we see often technology is often negative in those ways because it takes us away from those relationships but the people who are far away like this community like these YouTube videos it brings us closer together because we couldn’t communicate without technology so this is something we have to balance not easy completely not easy.

There is 8 excellent piece of advice here. That we have from. I don’t know if I said that correctly but he says when I meet my friends. And are the first person who uses their phone it has to pay for dinner hello this is a great thing when you meet your friends the first person who uses their phone has to pay for dinner very clever probably a great idea because no one wants to pay for everyone’s dinner. All she does is I think people can make a limit so like a self limit for how much they use their phones every day. I think that’s all important there is a good point about having other things to do services they can fill their extra space in time with the reading or exercises so having something else to do I think at least for me I often use my phone or I use the computer when there is nothing else to do or I think I think there’s nothing else to do but if I have a project or I’m interested in going to the park if there is another activity I will use my phone so that’s a great point trying to. Give yourself other activities other things you can do. And technology is all around us it’s not bad it’s not good it just exists. So I hope that you can use it with the limits and help the people around you to also use it with a limit.

All right that’s a good point I advise you to use new technology to improve your English and scientific research skills. Exactly exactly you can use. Technology to be able to learn English learn other things this is the beautiful thing about the internet we really can learn anything. Even with technology there is almost no excuse we can learn something about everything but we need to balance balance our lives I think in I don’t know the statistics for the U. S. or for the computer in the U. S. but T. V. T. V. in the U. S. and this is going to be my final question today TV in the U. S. I think the average is 5:00 hours each day watching TV so this is the average in the U. S. each household watches TV for 5:00 hours every day. Now for me I don’t have a TV so it’s impossible for me to watch TV for that long every day but a lot of people are watching TV I was so surprised I don’t know. How it’s possible but this is one of the statistics that people in the U. S. watch TV so much. And I think it’s like I mentioned before and escape and escape so my final question for you is one which one do you think is better for humans this is a huge question and also kind of fun is TV or the computer better for humans I’m curious to hear what you have to say. Because this is all technology.

My at my cameras technology my microphone is technology. There’s different kinds of technology but I’m curious do you think that TV or the computer art better we have one vote one vote for the computer. We have I don’t watch TV I watch very little computer computer computer computer because it has TV functions that is very true. Nowadays we can use the computer out more for the computer. 7891011 does anyone. I think no one no one would rather have a TV than a computer the computer is and this is a great expression to use for. Something that you really use and it’s valuable to you the computer is valuable invaluable Ian valuable as one word the computer is invaluable this means I can’t live without it there’s so many great things that you can use the computer for that I can’t imagine living without of course I could live without it but after I experienced the internet’s it’s hard to go back to. 15 years ago 20 years ago to us is we need to destroy the TV. I’ll TV’s are for couch potatoes great expression all we’ve got lots of good expressions today double edged sword couch potato indispensable invaluable yes you have got lots of great vocabulary to talk about technology today in the skate things that you you used to get away from the real world. Yes it is indispensable so I hope that for you today you learn something through technology we are using the internet right now incredible there are you people from all over the world who are connecting together so because of technology people around the world can connect so for me I need to think about. People who are close to me am I connecting with the people who I see continuously is the computer or it is my phone separating me from people who live close to me that’s the challenge we have to balance it seems like all of you as well struggle with similar things but it’s part of modern life there’s pros and cons there’s pluses and minuses there’s advantages and disadvantages.

It’s a double edged sword yes pretty difficult well thank you all for talking to me about technology through technology it has been a great conversation I agree with a lot of your and ideas and advice about technology and how we can use it positively and how we can try to use it in a limited way so that it doesn’t become an escape so that we don’t become like Laurie said zombies technology izombie is that’s a great way to say it that as you’re looking at your phone your eyes and your brain becomes like a zombie. So let’s try to. Consciously consciously and this means thinking about it consciously use technology I’m so glad that you guys are using it today to learn English congradulations you have successfully used technology today.

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