Exploring the Link Between Technology Use and Loneliness

Name Instructor Course Date Does technology make users lonelier? Introduction Advancement in technology has a positive and negative impact on its users. Before the commencement of the technology era, communication, among other areas in which technology has great influence, was challenging and tedious. However, the technology era came with defined approaches that eased human operations. Paying close attention to internet use, one can argue that this is among the most influential aspects technology offers the human race. Unfortunately, as much as this privilege enhances communication regardless of time or distance, its overreliance exposes the users to negative effects like stress. The current essay analyses the connection between technology use and loneliness, paying special attention to mobile use addictions in response to whether technology makes its users lonelier. After considering various scholars' arguments, the essay wishes to synthesize ten literature references on the topic and provide a logical trend in response to the correlation between technology use and loneliness among users. Is there a direct correlation between stress and internet addiction? There is a common thread of similarities in response to this question as different authors believe that technology use has direct effects on the user, whether positive or negative (Daei et al. (202); Kaibiao et al. (2-4); and Lu et al. (2-6)). While meditating on the role of loneliness concerning internet dependence, Kaibiao et al. (3) argue behavioral and emotional stress as potential triggers of internet addictions. An addiction disorder is characterized by the victims’ limited ability to control the triggers leading to an overreliance on doing that specific thing. Modern technology makes life very interesting as people can learn much from the internet. Unfortunately, many are becoming internet-enslaved people attributed to severe addiction, limiting normal/controlled internet use and exposing many to negative effects like stress and depression in severe cases. Based on this author, family stress, whether emotional stress or behavioral anxiety, enhances the victims' urge to use the internet as a way to avoid or forget such stressors. Unfortunately, the more the victim runs away from that family-related stress, the more the urge to rely on the internet results in serious addictions. Arguing from the perception that too much of something is poisonous, such addictions worsen stress levels to the primary victims and others within such families. In harmony with Kaibiao et al. (10) arguments with a little extension on stress triggers, Daei et al. (202) argue the relationship between stress and mobile phone addictions from a nomophobia disorder point of view. According to Daei et al. (202), nomophobia is a state of socio-psychological disorder that affects Smartphone users of fears of not having access to such devices. Using 320 stu