For our daily routine we need technology. Using technology can have a lot of advantages and also numerous drowbacks. For example, nowadays, the mobile devices and the applications they support, can help students develop personally and even prepre them for their future carees just because they learn how to be more responsible. I think that another important positive point about technology is that the traditional passive learning model is broken, and with technology in the classrooms  the teacher can become the encourager, and most improtantly a coach.
    I think the most important drowback is that everytime we open our  devices we harm Mother Nature, for exmple the use of technological inventions in favor of human beings and their  relationships with the nature has determined the degradation of natural environment. I think that technology has contributed to environmental degradation and pollution using the following methods: production and use of energy with negative effects on the environment such as soil destruction, atmospheric and water pollution, including the occur rence of acid rain and greenhouse effect. Also the industrial production processes resulting from the release of substances into the atmosphere by plants or other centres, has contributed to environmental damages. Agriculture has also become a generator of environmental polluants contributing to the degradation and even the destruction of some material resources.
     And now, I can tell you that everytime we use our mobile phones to talk with our families or friends, we wound Mother Nature.

Not only is technology a necessity in our lives to some capacity, but it is also a want. Things such as social media can be a want, however, it is not limited to that. I know in my life I use social media to find out about current events and the news and also for fun purposes. Technology is great for medical advances, research accessibility, and for environmental advances (when created and used sustainably). I agree that technology can cause a lot of damage to our world, like the examples you listed, especially with industrial production processes which release substances into the atmosphere. Also, when we are using our phones or other types of technology, it is likely that we could be doing something more productive to help our environment.