Why is Technology so Annoying?

Technology may play a vital role in our day-to-day lives, but that isn't necessarily a good thing. Instead of talking to people face-to-face, more and more of us our drawn into a situation where we are less likely to go out with friends than we are to stay indoors, texting and emailing those closest to us. Children born today will be unable to remember a time when there was no Internet or 24/7 communication. For them, it is completely normal to live their lives online. It's hardly healthy, though, is it? There has to be more to life than computers and owning the latest technology, surely?

Even more annoying is the fact that once you've become hooked on technology, it often lets you down. Whilst once upon a time we were prepared to put up with dial-up modems and accepted that if you wanted to access the Internet, you had to be patient; these days even the fastest broadband connection is not fast enough. Then, there are those occasions when you really need to access your emails, but the host website is down, and if you work from home and need to contact a client, it can set you off into a panic. Sometimes, the Internet is not accessible at all, and you can feel kind of cut off from the outside world.

Of course, technology does have its benefits, but we've all become so used to what technology has to offer us that it's hard, even for us born pre-Internet, to remember what life used to be like when you couldn't access someone all day and all night and communicate with people all over the world for little cost and with ease. It makes you all the more aware of just how dependent you are on technology when it lets you down and you're left wondering how on earth you're going to cope.