Tecnology Vs. Value System

Breathing the air for now, we can sense that indeed, it is a modern world. In every twists and turns of our head, from the moment we open our eyes in every morning, and even until we close it to rest, technology will always be a part of our day. Some may even say that can’t live life fully if they can’t open a single SMS in their mobile phones, and more if they can’t update their Facebook account in the internet. We are slowly eaten by the technology but we can’t even manage to see what is very obvious. Our value system is the being affected by those stuffs and frankly, we are not even doing any action about it.

In dictionary meaning, technology is an applied science. It is a science at work. When we say technolog, the most common that comes to one’s mind are high-tech cellphones, powerful computers, sexy cars, and almost everything modern in this world that makes our life “easy”. On the other hand,media is the channel of communications in our daily living. It may come in the form of television, radios, newspaper, and any device that can transmit information for communications. Since we are in the modern age, we now live with almost everything is served instantly from households to almost anything we need. Even if you go and test the fact that if you check to someone’s bag, you can always find at least a phone. That is totally proven for now. By the use of media, we are greatly influenced by the new trend of things in the market. Plus, the attitude of that we should never be late to things, it may result to a total difference.

Value system in our country is the attitude of giving respect to someone older or to any person around us. Now, it is the one being rotten because of technology and media. If not because of those stuffs, we might still hear and see more often kids saying “Mano po, Lolo”, or “Salamat po”. We can honestly say that we are now losing the tradition of respect of the old Filipinos. We should never let it drift because it is one of our treasures that other country doesn’t have. We should do something. Not tomorrow, not later, nut this time.