Living in a digital age

Living in a digital age is strange and different than that of which generations before us have lived through. We are more connected than ever, yet we isolate ourselves more than we ever have before. For example, teens nowadays would rather stay in than go out and be with people. Jean M. Twenge adds the study to her article that 56 percent of high-school seniors in 2015 went out on dates, whereas for Boomers and Gen Xers, the number was around 85 percent. She also adds how teens are’t having sexually interations until later in their lives. So our intimate relationships have been declining, but things normally assocciated with being negative like STDs, STIs, and pregnancies for teens has dropped dramatically. As a human race, our technologies drive social change like nothing has before. The internet creates a space for people to lay down their story as well as bring together ideas from all over the world. It is a space where people can be damaged by the addictions of itself or benefitted by utilizing it as a tool for research and thought.

• Living in a digital age is strange and different than that of which generations before us have lived through. We are more connected than ever, yet we isolate ourselves more than we ever have before. For example, teens nowadays would rather stay in than go out and be with people. Jean M. Twenge adds the study to her article that 56 percent of high-school seniors in 2015 went out on dates, whereas for Boomers and Gen Xers, the number was around 85 percent. She also adds how teens are’t having sexually interations until later in their lives. So our intimate relationships have been declining, but things normally assocciated with being negative like STDs, STIs, and pregnancies for teens has dropped dramatically. As a human race, our technologies drive social change like nothing has before. The internet creates a space for people to lay down their story as well as bring together ideas from all over the world. It is a space where people can be damaged by the addictions of itself or benefitted by utilizing it as a tool for research and thought.