French writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry said that “the best things people have made [the airplane, the telephone...] are all things that bring people together.” Discuss this statement and say what are to your mind, the best things people have made. Would you say that Internet makes our social life richer or poorer?
According to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the most revolutionary inventions in the history of humanity have brought people together, in my opinion this is because of the newness of an invention and everyone wants to know how to use it and how useful it is.
Personally, I think that the best inventions that the human race has made are, all kinds of vehicles for transportation, because you can go to other cities and travel all around the world, another use is that it really safes people time going for example to work with a car or a bycicle rather than walking. Moreover, social media, internet and all kinds of new technologies because, on the one hand it keeps people connected and it helps to mantain relationships with people that you can't see very often. Also, social networks keep people informed of what is going on.
On the other hand, I think that people is all day with their phone and that's not good because and we have to control the screen time that we spend everyday on electronic devices that distracts us of the things that we have to do, our goals, our dreams,... Another thing is that social media has made teenagers more lazy, because in today's society people prefer to talk with electronic devices rather than have a physical conversation and, as a result of this nowadays, teenagers don't know how to form deep meaningful relationships.
In conclusion, as millenials we have to learn how to make a good use of social media and cellphones and control screen time that we spend on social media mainly. And answering the question of the statement, I would say that Internet does not make our social life richer, because what we show on the Internet is not our real life.
