How Technology Has Affeted My Family.

Maria I. Pacheco
English 115
June 28, 2011
How technology has affected my family.
Technology has definitely affected my family! Technology started by changing our social life. My family haslearned how to live with it but still not easy for them. It has changed us as family. Now, it more like we have to depend on what will the technology brings us before we even think about ourselves.Technology has affected us in my family ways of seeing life, economically, and in the way we reflect our self to our own people; meaning family.
First of all, your first impression in a family reunioncounts a lot. Right when you come into the door people might look at what you’re wearing, but they will also look at what kind of phone you have. For some parents, in order to be intelligent you haveto show them that you really know about the latest technology, even though sometimes you do not really know. Family will look at you as an intelligent person just because you have the you know alittle bit about technology.
Secondly, technology as affected my family economically. This is one the biggest things you can see in a now day family not only mines. For instance, when my brother waslooking for a job he was not able the certain kinds of jobs, just because he did not know about computers or he did not know about a certain kind of program. As result, he did find a job after a long timewithout having to know about computers. In addition, we as human being the more we have the more we want so we do whatever we can in order to get the latest technology and be cool.
Finally,technology has affected our family ways of seeing life. Before, it was all about going to church on Sundays and have then out to eat. Now, it is all about getting up in the morning and watch my nieces playvideo games without even thinking on going to church; plus do not even mentioned “church”, because they will say no. We do not even pay our bills outside. We paid them online. I will ask my mom if...