Does technology play a role in making people feel more isolated?

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[...] Does technology play a role in making people feel more isolated? When isolation can be defined as the lack or absence of quality and quantity of social contact, technology on its side is the application of the knowledge and usage of tools (such as machines) and techniques in order to control an environment. As it is very well known that social isolation can be caused physically due to a disability for example and emotionally through some traumatic events or an unsustainable friendship, people wonder whether the social isolation is accentuated by technology. [...]

[...] Moreover, technology is an intergenerational tool in a way that it operates by putting together different generations. Technologies such as ICTs also known as Internet and Communication Technologies are used to reduce social isolation. That aside, we have mobile technologies, mobility tools, videoconferencing, social network sites, etc. It has been proven that technologies that are more based on communication provide better results when it comes to reducing social isolation. On the contrary, such technologies elevate the level of connectedness between people (families, friends, etc.). [...]

[...] This situation is making people more isolated. For example, someone can be depressed at home during work time and there is nobody to intervene. Moreover, working with actual people as a team creates memories and a certain experience that one can relate to in life. So, for many people, this aspect of the technology (internet) is causing social isolation and it is bad. Another inconvenient concerns the family. Whenever a family member finds himself alone on the internet, he or she can isolate himself instead of talking to the people around him. [...]

[...] Social media particularly and technology in general is causing social isolation due to the lack of transmitting knowledge and feelings. In fact, using social media is like talking or discussing your problems with you alone in a way that there is no compassion from the person you are messaging. Hence, Facebook, WhatsApp and other social media have been improving their functionalities. Today we have emojis, voice mailing, voice calling and video calling. The aim is to eliminate the isolation generated by the absence of compassion and feeling transmission. [...]

[...] In addition, this is becoming a permanent danger to the users. It has been seen several times, the case where people are messaging while walking. In many countries, people crossing the road were busy messaging, not knowing that the signal has already moved to green. It is the drivers that called those people back in the real world by using the klaxon. So, the isolation caused by technology is so strong to the point that people no longer care about their own lives. [...]