My name is Satou Hiro. I'm young and a college student. I have PSP, revolutionary phones, I have PCs, I have cameras, I own a flat screen TV and other gadgets and I say that technology has greatly affected my life.
Tecnology has positive and negative effects in my life. Let me first talk about the positive effect. First, technology has made my life more convenient. I finish my tasks fast because of the aid of the technology. Instead of writing, I use the PC and type there. Instead of going to the post office and have my letter sent to my friend, I can now use the E-mail. It's free, it has no charge. And it is one of the things that technology can offer to the people. With technology, I can have chat with my friend from other country or even have video calls. Technology makes the world smaller. It connects people from other parts of the world. And that is what also happened to me. I met friends from the internet and whenever I have a problem, they were there to advise me, comfort me, make me feel that I am not alone. Technology has made my days more enjoyable and those are the positive effects of technology in my life.
But too much of engaging myself to technology things has also effected to negative things. Now I graduate from being a college student. I became like antisocial. I came to be afraid of the people around me. I came to see them as like my enemies. "My friends are on the internet", that was I was thinking everyday. I gave up hanging out with friends. I found myself uncomfortable if I am with them. They judge things easily unlike my internet friends. I thought my internet friends were the kindest people I've ever met in my life. I forgot about my parents. There came a time I forgot about the world. I became addicted to the internet. Internet has absorbed my mind. I couldn't hear things from outside world. I was in love with a girl on the internet. Since then, I didn't go out from my room. I kept on talking to her every night. She is so beautiful and kind.
One day, she left me. She was going somewhere. I was worried and I became like crazy. I like her. "She's smart, why would she do that? Why would she leave me? Did she find the answer already?". Those were my crazy thoughts. I love her. I said it to her before she left. But she realized some things and left me. I became sad. My mind now is totally negative. Why does things around me keep on moving? I kept thinking negative things for months. It is the negative effect of technology. And suddenly, she came back to me. I don't know how she found out what happened to me. She just came to me like a psychologist trying to know what is in my mind.