Is technology just a fad?

Technology is increasing every day, and more people get hooked to new types of technology everyday. We have become a technology society where pretty much everything runs on some form of technology. Could you imagine if the Internet went out for a day, businesses would not be able to function, we would lose most of our communication to other countries, and I think we would not know what to do with our selves, we couldn't just look up an address at yellowpages.com , we would have to open a yellow page directory, and do people really even own those anymore?

An interesting question came up in my EMAC 2322 class. Professor Jones asked if technology is just a fad. If technology was just a fad that would mean that eventually people will stop using social networking sites like twitter and face book, and people will stop blogging.

I don't think technology is a fad at all, it is here to stay and its just getting better. The things that technology produces might fade like face book. Eventually another social networking site will appear that does things better than face book and eventually face book will be the new my space.

Social networking is something that technology developed and think that it will only develop into greater things. We as humans are very social and are looking for ways to interact with people. You don't even have to pick up the phone any more to interact with people. All you have to do is sign on to face book or twitter.  Now I don't necessarily agree with this way of socializing, but the times are changing and this how things are being done now.

According to The Huffington Post 96% of millennials have joined a social network, social media has overtaken porn as the number one activity on the web, 1 out of 8 couples married in US met via social media and the fastest growing segment on Face book is females 55 to 65 years old.

Social Networking is only getting bigger as technology grows, I talk to my family in South Africa a whole lot more now than when we first moved here, since Skype has made it so much easier and cheaper.

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