Living in a digital age

An addiction that the very lifestyle of being on the internet may create can be negatively impactful on not only the user, but the people around them. In the documentary “Lo and Behold:Reveries of the Connected World” 2016 by Werner Herzog, Herzog interviews a recovering internet addict. This individual discusses how not only how his addiction to a “gamers” lifestyle was ruining himself, but how it was hurting those around him. He says how he was on the computer for more than 16 hours a day, his relationships with both his family and girlfriend were becoming non-existent, and his will to live was begining to fade into hopelessness because of it. I thought about how I myself have lost precious hours that I cannot get back, because I’d rather play a video game than facetime or call my girlfriend or a family member, and this very act made me feel terrible about how technology was damaging the relationships that I held close.

• An addiction that the very lifestyle of being on the internet may create can be negatively impactful on not only the user, but the people around them. In the documentary “Lo and Behold:Reveries of the Connected World” 2016 by Werner Herzog, Herzog interviews a recovering internet addict. This individual discusses how not only how his addiction to a “gamers” lifestyle was ruining himself, but how it was hurting those around him. He says how he was on the computer for more than 16 hours a day, his relationships with both his family and girlfriend were becoming non-existent, and his will to live was begining to fade into hopelessness because of it. I thought about how I myself have lost precious hours that I cannot get back, because I’d rather play a video game than facetime or call my girlfriend or a family member, and this very act made me feel terrible about how technology was damaging the relationships that I held close.