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Article 2 - Technology as a powerful distraction


Introduction
With the evolution of technology during this century and which is coming soon, new games, smartphones, game consoles such PlayStation 5, computer parts with high performance and companies using new more efficient algorithms to capture you attention in things that could make you waste your time when it’s  essential to our life to reach goals in order to be successful, to get prosperity and help the society to advance and of course the meaning of our life.

Body
We all know that technology is essential in our society to build complex buildings, for manufacturing, for daily life scheduling, to enhance everything where it’s used, but this also implies new electronic devices and new apps like new social media such Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Netflix, video games, that they were developed to entertain you, this are some examples: kids nowadays prefers to stay at home playing FortNite or PlayStation more than four hours per day instead to doing the homework, sometimes when you directly came to a person to talk about something important and he is on the cellphone and trying to listen you at same time also when a group is out for dinner on a restaurant and someone uses the phone when they are passing good time, some people who works on an office and they spend work time scrolling down on Facebook or Instagram, it’s very common that companies like google uses data mining to show you advertisements that you could be interested based on what you had seen on google.com or when you are on Wish the application to buy Chinese products online and you can’t stop watching sales related an article that you previously clicked while searching that is called big data algorithms to recommend something based on your likes for example Netflix also use it to show you shows that maybe you would like to see, in our century this algorithms forgive the redundancy is very common on mostly all software. The issue is not that the activity is bad, the problem is when the subject get in troubles because of the consequences of distraction caused by the electronic devices, to prevent this is recommended to put the devices away from you when you mustn’t use it or somehow private you from the thing.

Conclusion:
Technology is the key for future automated hardware and software that will easy our day-to-day of living, enhancing every place where it is and humans life, but it a double-edged sword because I can delay your work or principal activities.

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