In the article “checking your vitals” it talks about the new wearable technology we have now that is said to be “helping” track our health. For example, the Apple watch has technology that allows the watch to track the user’s heart rate, exercise, sleep, and much more. This article shows that technology is coming a long way as to helping our health. Technology as a whole has become so complex and it’s hard to believe such a small piece of technology that you wear on your wrist contains everything needed to track your heart rate, blood pressure, sleep patterns, and so on. With that being said, it is much easier for an individual to buy a smartwatch or a smartphone to track this kind of stuff rather than taking trips to the doctor every day to check these types of things.
In the video “Adam ruins everything – Why Facebook isn’t free” he talks about the fact that facebook seems to be ruining the lives of many people. The way that facebook works, you may not even know. Facebook steals your information and sells it to larger companies without you knowing. You also might realize while scrolling through your feed you may see an add for something you might have searched on the intranet recently, facebook will then start to flood your feed with your recent searches. A man in this video likes a page about bacon, and almost instantly his feed is flooded with fast food ads. This is a negative effect technology is having on one’s life because this is flooding his page with very unhealthy food choices. Another example is in the video the women has a “Gay Cruise” pop up on her feed and a co-worker oversees that. This is an example of someone’s personal information getting out to the wrong person.
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