Technophilies and Technophobies

Technophilies

What is Technophile?

Is someone who has a love or enthusiasm with all related to technology, especially computers.

This kind of people uses technology as a mean to improve their life and also to combat the social problems. A technophile can depend as much on technology to the point of becoming an obsession.

The biggest technophiles often buy the latest versions of new electronic devices just to market. Actually, the vast majority of people have some grade of technophile according to dependence that the people had create to the technology.

Who are affected by the technophile?

Young people who have grown up in a home environment not appropriate to their development, whether a dysfunctional family or when the parents do not have time to pay attention to their young children. The result in both cases is low self-esteem in adolescents, so they tend to flee from an adult world that is hostile to them taking refuge in the new technologies.

Teenagers are strong candidates to suffer this type of dependency because they are in a period in which they must adapt to numerous physical and emotional changes. Many young people turn to mobile phone or Internet chat rooms because they are unable to accept their body image, and with these technologies they can distort and become the ideal self which the society claims.

This behavior prevents them develop their social skills, makes them hypersensitive, and increases their feelings of insecurity. The family must pay attention to early warning signs that are associated with addictive behavior, such as the tendency to isolation, the breakdown of social relationships, school failure or aggression.


Technophobies

What is a Technophobe?

Is someone who fears the effects of technological development on society and the environment, in other words is someone who is afraid to the technological devices, such as computers.

The technophobe has fears and dislikes the technology. This may be as a consequences of fears of change or a prior catastrophic experience with technology.