One of the important points about technology is whether it’s getting us more involved with the people around us or is it separating us from our family, friends and colleagues.
We will discuss here how the rise of technology usage in our lives has affected the level of involvement among our loved ones and friends. We will discuss the good effects as well as the negative effects on our relation ships with others under the influence of technology.
Connectivity
With the advent of technology, the world has become a very small space with people traveling around the globe and keeping in touch, making new friends etc very fast.
We have flights taking us across thousands of miles in such a short while, so that we can finish our objective and return to our homes sooner. As happened in the older days, travel across seas usually happened on ships and used to take months and sometimes even years, so the sailors had to be away from their families for long. But nowadays with such efficient airplane services, traveling across countries takes mere hours. 
Even being out of home can keep the family connected through international calls, Internet telephony etc and keep people updated about their home front. With the transport cost as well as the communication costs being reduced over the years, people are not shirking from traveling abroad and at the same time staying connected to their families.
Lesser Involvement
With the workplaces becoming more mechanized and formalized, the motivation levels and enthusiasm of the workers and executives is suffering. Personal satisfaction of needs drops as people become less and less attached to a finished goal towards which they are working.
There is no feeling of accomplishment, or personal interaction resulting in reduction in pride, a reduction in honest and an increasing dissatisfaction with work as a whole.
What is missing the most in the workplaces is the sense of belonging, as the place gets more and more tech savvy; people get more and more robot like and perform their work very mechanically and without much sentiment into the work.
Disassociation
There are also the feelings of frustration, fear, anxiety of the unknown, and dislike toward others that result from the interaction of the individual with the technologically changing society.
Since the technology sources are prevalent in the society, those who are not in know-how of the same tend to disassociate themselves from the people who are more advanced with technology.
If a person nowadays knows certain technology, he is said to have an edge over the others and he definitely gets a preferential treatment from the ones who don’t, leading to dissatisfaction at the workplace. Also, there is a sense of unhealthy competition creeping in to the workplace aggravated by the exorbitant salary being paid to the tech savvy person.
Isolation
Dispersion of the family due to rise of technology industries tended to decrease the level of interaction among members of the extended family and to increasingly isolate the primary family unit.
Nowadays, with the technology revolution coming into the picture, people are getting jobs in various parts of the world resulting in the break from their parents and other family members, inviting a concept of “nuclear families”.
The culture of small families living separately or even single persons living alone is a catching on and is aided by the easy connectivity to their families staying far apart through telephones, internet etc. So, people are still opting to go far from their families in search of better opportunities, better working environment etc whichever is available.
Personalized Touch
Sources like television and telephone communication have replaced the more personalized forms of communication, isolating us from one another and reducing the opportunity for interaction.
We are more interested in being involved in doing things on our own like chatting with our friends, watching a TV program etc rather than having a conversation with the family or having an outing and having personal interaction with our loved ones.
Even at the workplace, rather than working in teams, with the presence of personal computers for each employee, we tend to isolate the people from their colleagues and they tend to work as individual units rather than a combined work unit.
Even though the relationships are affected by the introduction of technology sources in our lives, it is surprising that still the usage of technology is on the rise. The main objective of the newer generation is to learn technology to the fullest but it’s up to you and me to imbibe in them the importance of family relationships.
