Technology influences the lives of billions of people. Humans depend on technology, and the need for more advanced technology keeps on rising. Humankind is now almost entirely connected to some form of modern technology, which inevitably leads to various positive and negative outcomes. According to Ellen Goodman in “Friendless in America,” technology makes “it easier to keep extensive relationships over time and distance, but harder to build deep ones in our backyards.” The analysis of Goodman’s contradictory statement revolves around how technology affects human interaction, education and general convenience. Over the years, the introduction of new and improved technology has revolutionized the way humans interact. This new convenient way that people communicate may seem advantageous, but it contains numerous drawbacks. The first of these drawbacks centers on weakened relationships among families and friends. Busy with their devices, families and friends no longer converse as they would in the past. This leads to a state of “ (being) able to be with one another, and also elsewhere, connected to wherever we want to be” (Turkle 1). Smartphone users often develop fidgety habits where they reach for their phones in a social environment to avoid face-to-face connections. New advances in technology also changed dating habits. For example, Drew Johnson, and most of society today, believes that “when it comes to asking a women out, texting beats calling every time” (Jayson 1). Modern dating now involves much less real life interaction, but instead more impersonal, technology based conversations that last much longer periods of time. Though, in many cases, technology helps people communicate with others, regardless of their location. Nowadays someone in the United States can instantly connect to anyone in the world, which allows for the interactions of people who would not meet otherwise. As a result, technology allows peop