band 80-90: DIAMOND OF 21ST CENTURY

        Vilifying the technology completely, ignoring the advantages or, praising it with individuals’ eyes closed is not appropriate thoroughly. The usage of technology determines whether it is useful or detrimental. Some people think that technology and internet makes our lives easier while the others say it makes us addicted and lethargy.  However, it is in our hands taking the positive sides of technology and internet by making good use of them or exposuring the harm effects of  them. Using the technology and internet is like choosing a friend. Because our friends are one of the most crucial part of our lives as the technology and internet and may affect us in so many situations. Technology and internet can ensure a lot of benefits to us, like a special companion,. However making our lives effortless, education and health are foremost ones.

        To begin with, one of the most influential advantages of using technology and internet can be viewed as making our lives effortless.. The first benefit can be identified with ‘’transpotation.’’ Looking back, people walked or got on some animals such as;horse,camel,ox to go to distant places. However, today people have a lot of transportation vehicles ranging from bus,train,car to plane. They go to somewhere even which is really remote as swift as they go to their neighbours  thanks to these vehicles. Furthermore, technology an internet are the most influential companions of people at their homes. People do things more quickly and efficiently under favour of their escorts. For instance; kitchen equipments,washing machines and hoovers are indispensable helpers for people because these stuff retrench the time and effort of people. Another point to add is that internet banking does the same thing. People do not have to go and bide in a long queue to pay their bills. Briefly stated, one of the most crucial advantages of technology and the internet can be thought as  making our lives easier.

       Second major factor that is related to advantages of using technology and internet can be regarded as the possibilities in education.Pupils have  innumerable facilities in terms of using technology and internet for their educational life. For instance, students use internet not just because they are  accustomed to using it for fun but they use internet as an assitant  for their homework. There are plenty of sites and online classes, owing to them pupils have a chance to see different types of questions and to learn new knowledge. Moreover, these classes and websites are practical for  the teachers,too. Instructors do not have to grade so many assignments  thanks to them.  Additionaly,  scholars can reach a great deal of information from online encyclopedia instead of gathering information from the books. With the help of this, they reach the information quicker than it used to be. In a word, education is one of the fields people can take advantages of internet and technology.

The third of the most considerable  advantages of using technology and internet might be health facilities. So many people suffering from diabets and high blood pressure have some achievabilities.To illustrate, these people are not obliged to go to any health care center or hospital, since they can easily  access  blood-pressure and blood- glucose  monitor at their homes. To boot, many diseases such as cancer  and allergic cases can be noticed and  cured early  thanks to health assistance  equipments.With the help of this, survival rates of the patients are increasing more and more. Furthermore, people  can handily get an appointment on the internet rather than going to hospital  too soon.  They do not have to bide wantonly at hospital owing to online appointment  system. In a nutshell, internet and technology contribute a lot of  opportunites in the fields of health and these opportunites are unignorable.

         On the whole, making our lives effortless, education and health are just three out of many other profitable advantages of technology and internet . The most influential advantages of using technology and the internet can be regarded as making our lives facile. Owing to this influence, individuals are accustomed to utilising them in every part in their lives. Education is one of the most widespread area which is made use of technology and the internet, as well. Another point is that health is impressed from technology an it has significant effect on the lives of humans. ‘’Technology and the internet are so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete alteration on human beings.’’

by Ayça Solsun 1st year ELT student @Erciyes University