Being a part of the 21st century is not an easy time to live through. We have so many worries in the world compared to our grandparents and beyond. What I've found is that technology is usually the source to blame for these worries.

Social media has a significant impact on our society as a whole.

It seems to bring a sense of insecurity among people, almost as if we have to be something we are not. The competition is constructed by passive aggressive ads that our society highlights. For example, the expectation of women is to be slim, beautiful, and fit. Because of this, women all over the world are self-conscious and insecure. Many feel like they don't live up to expectations of society. The truth is, we all do live up to the higher standard that we think we don't. We just don't feel like we do because of the social structure society has created. The social structure is so detrimental to our well-being, and it has caused for so many false accusations of women that are not realistic. We live in a century that expects so much more than we can give.

Not to mention, we live in a world which is via text.

We don't talk to each other anymore; we don't live for the moment. Technology has also made us completely anti-social. I, for one, am guilty of texting when I'm out to dinner with my friends. I know many people are. The fact is people of every generation are addicted to their tablets. When I go out to dinner, I see almost everyone checking their phone on the minute. My mom has called me out for not wanting to talk on the phone because I am so embedded in texting or iMessaging. She is completely right. We grew up texting. Don't laugh when I say that it's in our blood, but it is. This is ultimately harmful to us because we no longer know how to live in the moment.

Although technology may have some negative connotation to it, it also has some benefits.

My mom tells me stories of how people used to have to use quarters to get a call from the payphone and how they had to either remember their friend's numbers or carry around a phonebook. Doing this sounds like a horrible chore to me. I think this because we have the world at our fingertips with our "tablets." If we don't know what a word means, we can look it up with the time of .2 seconds (Google can confirm that.) We are constantly curious of the unknown, and with our tablets, we can find out. This is the amazing part about technology. It's so much easier to see what we want to know.

However, this may not always be a good thing.

A large number of times miscommunication has occurred because of texting, chatting or dm-ing. People assume the worst by nature, and it is primarily easy to slip a wrong text to someone. Have you ever issued a text that was autocorrected from "I miss you" to "I kiss you"? Because that has happened to me numerous times. It is so easy to miscommunicate over the text; we do it all the time.

Technology is a beautiful thing. However, sometimes we misinterpret the actual meaning of life with it.