Since the beginning of the new century, technology has become the center of our society. We continually try to push technological barriers in order to make our lives easier. Breaking these barriers has revolutionized our lifestyle to the point of changing conventional methods of communication and creating ways for us to be more efficient in the simple task of cleaning our house to creating skyscrapers. . One of the great technology debates is whether technology is changing the way we think and act, for good or for bad? Technology has given us the ability to literally reach height, with skyscrapers sometimes stretching up to 1,000 feet - something that was only a dream in the last century, it is constantly changing the way we think and to acquire things, whether it is our education, our workplace and our relationships. . But nothing comes without compromise; we have become so intoxicated by the beauty of technology that we have given up our independence, the substance of our humanity, for the comfort of machines. As technology has moved from purely technical to cultural, it has become increasingly impossible not to notice the ever-increasing changes in our communication. The mass production of computers and smartphones has created a more comfortable way for us to be more social, accessing sites such as Facebook, Twitter and even Instagram sites. According to “Pew Internet: Social Networking” by Joanna Brenner, “72% of online adults use social networking sites and 18% use Twitter. 6% use Reddit. (1) Social media has become so addictive because it has given us more choices about how we interact with our friends, for example: challenging friends to a game of Farmville on Facebook: liking someone's photos friend on Instagram: a..... . middle of paper......students are tempted not to steal others' homework, I'm talking about "plagiarism", the unforgivable sin that is committed in every college in the United States, Google did nothing other than increasing the avenues of plagiarism. When students buy an essay and turn it in as work, teachers are usually impressed and praise the student while other students, due to their anger, follow in the same footsteps. In all technology has been a virus to us, it is slowing down the destruction of our thought process, we have become slaves to our own creation. It has grafted itself into our thoughts and guides us little by little through depression, loneliness and obesity. How many of us can truly say that we can live our lives without technology? Our addiction is an accepted poison to our souls, and it constantly consumes our thoughts and our money, our sweet money..