As a teenager I know for a fact that during these sensitive years it can be very difficult forming a sturdy social life. Having to go to school every day to learn with people you don’t know or know how to interact with can be difficult, because most middle and high schoolers don’t want to go through their dreadful school experience with the risk of embarrassment and failure (and that’s only if you’re not home schooled).
Even thinking about that gives me a migraine.
Why is it so hard to be comfortable in your own skin, put yourself out there, and well… fit in?
Well you see, as children grow into adolescence they begin to grow physically and mentally. This means that as their bodies change, the way they think about themselves and view other people will change based on the society’s social norms and influences; and this is where technology comes into play.
What is Technology?
According to brainly.com, technology is the study and transformation of techniques, tools, and machines created by humans. It allows humans to study and evolve the physical elements that are present in their lives.
Based on this definition, technology is supposed to be a tool used to further progress human intelligence when it comes to everyday life challenges and general situations. However, technology in modern society has become more of a problem than a solution to the various issues humans have created due to the many negative side effects of being a human-being.
Human beings are gradually advancing in society based on history. They have proven that they are the (known) intellectually superior organisms, who have dominated most of the world. Human beings are like ants when it comes to the way they create communities and build on those communities and ultimately build empire-like institutions that can overpower a lot of threatening predators. But the thing about being the best and all powerful is that you’re always going to be looking for something to critique and that will lead you in the opposite direction of nationbuilding.
And the crazy thing is that the tools that people have created and used are the same tools that they compare themselves to, and base their standard of intelligence, standard of beauty and their standard of power on.
As humans it is inevitable that they base their lives on some form of perfection or flawlessness; you literally can see it in everyday life. For example the beauty industry has always shown examples of beauty that are not (usually) naturally executed by the human form. The tool that humans use to advertise these false standards of life is technology.
Examples of this are: foot binding that is said to have been created in the 10th century in China, corsets that originated in Italy in around the 16th century ( that are still popular today), and now plastic surgeries that most people use to shape their bodies into the unrealistic standards of beauty (of their society).
These examples are only scratching the surface of what humans view as the ideal “perfect” being. And the thought that this idea of human perfection is attainable is ridiculous, and it sets a very bad example for young people around the world, who are just beginning the search of who they are.
Children growing into adolescence and even young children of this generation, in this modern society, are exposed to these useless insecurities that are stunting their mental flexibility and freedom of choice to be who they are. Due to the pandemic that has forced everyone to rely on mostly technology, people must be aware of their children’s new outlook on life, and how it will affect them in the near future. We as a nation need to make sure that the youth are secure and confident enough in themselves before exposing them to a world only focused on the failures and insecurities of every single human being. If we don’t, society’s future leaders will be too mentally damaged to continue positive growth within their society, which will lead to the destruction of the human race.
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