Nowadays we can see the variation of opinions about technologies. Some people think that newfangled devices made our lives much easier, but others believe that they took humanity captive. I think technologies have brought a lot of interesting things which help us every day.
First of all, now we can communicate with people from any point on Earth. You need only a phone or a computer to call or send a message to any person. For example, yesterday I wanted to call my friend from Australia as we are used to calling on Mondays. Having made 2 taps on the screen I dialed my friend without problems. If I did not have a smartphone I had to write a letter and then send which took a lot of time.
Nevertheless, people who use phones or other devices constantly can get phone addiction which appears to be a very dangerous disease. For instance, my neighbor learnt about World of Tanks and decided to download it. At the beginning he did not play a lot, but then the game was drawing him in. He stopped going out and everything he was interested in was the game.
To conclude, I want to say technologies are very helpful when you use them properly, but if you start abusing various devices, the consequences can be very hard.