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The biggest influence that technology has on family time is
the change of it. People used to spend more time with their family members
before. Nowadays, with children (and the parents, too) spending more time
texting, watching movies and television, playing video games, and listening to
music, when will the family find time to bond (培养感情) and create lasting memories together?
Far too often we don't pay more attention to making time for
members of our own family. By the end of a long day at work or school, members
of the family want to relax. And now that technology use is widespread across
the country, normally our "relaxing" is also known as spending time
on smart phones.
Not only is the amount of family time affected (影响) by technology, but
also the quality. Technology can affect the quality in different ways. For
example, family members can be distracted (使分心) by
their phones while trying to play a board game together, which wouldn't have happened if the phone didn't exist in
the first place.
If "family time" means everyone sitting in the
same room while playing online, what value is there? Personal interaction is
key to time well spent with loved ones. Families don't even need to have
something to do while together. If they simply ask each other how their day is
and play a simple game together, family bonds will get better.
When technology becomes a focus, quality(有质量的) time for
families goes down, which in turn affects everyone's life. Lack of family
interaction causes the family's unity to weaken, and each of the family will be
influenced in different ways. Children are more likely to develop unhealthy
habits when they fail to interact with their parents. Meanwhile, parents who
put work before family or pay less attention to their children's growth are
more likely to face bad parent-child relationship. 67 percent of American teens
say they want to spend more time with their parents, which is rather sad.
Therefore, this passage is meant to show how technology has negatively
influenced families.