The Phenomenon – iPod-

The iPod is the 21st century’s generation Cd player. However, the only feature these two technologies have in common is: they play music. The iPod is smaller, needs no Cd’s, hase its own memory and is louder than our ears can hear.
The iPod was invented as a new generation MP3 player, nevertheless it has become a ‘cult’, and now a great number of people fear that the iPod can couse and actually is causing a damage upon our society. From one side it can be seen that the iPod is ‘helping’ us to ‘protect’ ourselves from the unwished society and happenings around us; if we do not want to listen to other people or if we do not want to get involved, we stuck the little white ‘buttons’ into our ears and its done: we have our privacy but is this really as esay and harmless as it sounds? No. The technology of our century, especially the iPod, separates us from the society. We stop talking to people, the communication decreases and through this we become passive and isolated while this little mechanism is often damaging our ears due to extreme high volume.
The isolation and damage of our health is not the only negative aspect. Since the iPod is owned by mostly young people such as teenagers and even children, it opens gates that were prohibited before, for example, downloading of porn and horror movies, and different other access opportunities that were not of great importance before the iPod era.
These times the iPod has become an important part of our day’s technology, and positive as well as negative impacts. The negative impact becomes more obvious because of the society’s extreme use. The advertisements through media, our friends and Hollywood have a greater impact on us than we think. Technology can be useful, helpful, and it can indeed make our lives easier but if we get ‘bombed’ with technology everywhere, we loose the sense of ‘having enough’, and this can be dangerous.