How or HAS technology made society lazy?

Technology has changed the way the world conducts itself with the development in new technology that has helped humans. It's no question that with the help of technology, we have come to make things easier and more convenient for our daily routines and ultimately making things more efficient for our lives but has it made us lazy ? Although technology has caused a part of laziness in our society, it gives a bigger opportunity to expand and conduct our lives more efficiently and ultimately more productively.
The simple fact that society has changed from socializing "up front, in person" to sitting behind a computer to have access to massive socializing empires: Facebook and Twitter. Out of the millions of people who use these socializing sites, on average someone will spend about 23 minutes per visit to be about 15.5 hours a month that they could spend doing something more productive. Society is stuck to their phones as they check news feeds on these sites and has created a slump in laziness for these constant users.
On the other hand, the access to millions of people, information and sources online has given people the opportunity to be 100x more productive than they would be without the internet and their socializing sites. Instead of being at home sitting on your couch watching television, people can run businesses from the comfort of their home through Facebook. Staying connected to the most recent news and information lets people conduct their lives efficiently.
So is has technology made society lazy or has it made us more efficient ? The way that technology has advanced has made things easier for us thus suggesting we are becoming lazy because we want things to be easier for us but the truth is we use technology to make things more efficient which ultimately makes us more productive in the long run. Technology is a wonderful thing if you have access to it and if you choose to use it to your advantage.

How Technology Makes Us Lazy - Josh R.

We live in a world run by the mass media and our constant need for the latest and greatest technology. Each year, not only do our technological abilities become greater, but our cravings for that new technology that we create become greater as well. However, when many think of new technology, and what they can get their hands on, they become eager and excited, and will often stop at nothing in order to obtain what they want. But is new and better technology always a good thing?

Yes, increased technology usually allows humans to have faster and more efficient ways of accomplishing tasks. But at the same time, it can also be counter-argued that because we can accomplish things faster with the use of technology, that it ultimately has the ability to take away our will to work at things in order to accomplish them, thus making us lazier.

            One technological advance that has increased laziness in humans is the television. With the introduction of the television, humans found a way to not only satisfy their entertainment needs in the comfort of their own homes, but with this invention they have also been able to discover a new way to become simply, lazy. In fact, television watching time over the years has lead to increased obesity in many children around the world. When the television remote was introduced, although it kept us on couches for extended periods of time, it became a fundamental change in the way that people engaged with the television experience. However, this technological advance ultimately has lead to our current “couch potato” society, which is a classic example of technology making us lazy.

            Technology has allowed us to grow and expand as humans. As we have become more advanced in technology, we have been able to create many things essential to the survival of our species, as well as make life, well, more enjoyable. However, these same advancements in technology have also made us lazier due to the fact that technology can accomplish a lot of tasks that humans had to do manually in the past. 

How Technology is making us lazy- Tyler Murata

            In today’s Society Technology has made our lives so much easier on all of us and helps us all live very luxurious lives. Most people will agree with the fact that because of technology our lives are a lot easier and are not so stressful, but now there is technology for everything and everyone and making it too comfortable for us. There are so many things we can do with technology now that we don’t even have to move a single inch in order to go about our lives. We are slowly beginning to lose sight of our old fashion ways of doing things by our selves and relying heavily on technology to do it for us. Technology should be there to help us as well as allow us to grow as humans rather than taking away all responsibilities and actions from us completely.

            The new smart phones that everyone has are a perfect example of how technology is making us lazy. They have endless amount of applications and the things they can do are limitless allowing us to be too comfortable and unproductive. Some of the applications can actually help us be productive but a majority of them are mainly for entertainment or pure luxury. It all depends on how a person uses their phone but since a lot of people like taking the easy route, smart phones are used to their advantage because they allow endless amounts of technological tools.

            One of the biggest tools technology enables to have is communicating with a person without actually communicating with them. There are so many ways of communicating with a person using technology that people become complacent communicating with people without having to go out ant meet up with anyone. Yes it may help enable people to meet up with each other to a certain extent but because texting, instant messaging, or emailing is so easy to do, most people would rather stay where they are at than and “talk” than personally meet up and talk face to face.

           Technology allows us to have a miniature universe of our own and we can use it as we please to. It is very helpful to us, but too much of anything can also be a bad thing and so the decision of whether we want to use technology to help us learn and grow or to make us lazy depends on us. Technology is meant to help us do things we can not, not to make us lazy and rely on it to do everything for us.