So we control technology or does technology control us?

In my opinion,in the modern society,technology controls us.More appropriately,technology controls our lives.Teenagers are now the ones who are mostly affected by technology.There is peer pressure or jealousy when one person sees that his friend has the latest model of iPod or handphone.He would not hesitate to have one too either to get back into the trend or having a chance to show it off.They usually squander their money on newer models,a deadly influence of technology.Another influence is computer games.Youngsters may be hooked onto these games and spend most of their time playing them.This attitude may lead to unpredictable complexities like the not-so-recent case in Singapore about the NTU stabbing incident.That may have been caused by an overdose of addiction or over exposure to violence and killing in computer games.Computer games can also induce fatigue,loss of appetite,insomnia,myopia,and in extremely severe cases,insanity.Besides this,people are also controlled by the facts produced by technology.For example,people tend to ignore the prospect of apocolypse BUT they start believing when it says, "Scientists estimate the world would end in XXXX year".The people would always link the word "Science" or "Scientists" to technology,super computers and complicated prediction devices.This is overwhelming proof that technology has a definite influence over us and maybe in years to come may control us.