In “How does smartphone” (2015), the article explain that the teenager who keep tracking for social media update and message do not get a good sleep at night. Next, the smartphone addiction can affect teenager’s studies. Teenagers who are addicted to smartphone will find themselves hard to focus on their studies. The games on smartphone required them to keep online and playing so that they can clear the stage in those games faster. Some of the teenager even check for social media notification in their class.
This is much easier than writing letters or only being able to hear their voice in a phone call. Along with the connection of video chat through the smartphones, texting as hit an all time peak with the new generations. Yes texting was used with the regular flip phone, but it has become significantly easier and more efficient for people to use. Now that 83% of americans have smartphones, not including regular cellphones, it has made it so much easier to send a quick text message. Before people had to question whether the other person had texting, spend time looking for letters on the small keyboards or flip phones or worry if the other person even got it.
Cell phones can lead many dangerous health problems to teenagers. By giving teens cell phone, they may probably spend most of their time on text and play video games Also, by contacting with friends by calling them for hours, It can make teens suffer from hearing loss because phones damage the inner ear. Moreover, by using a cell phone, a teenager will spend most of his time sitting on the chair without moving. In other words, let them only sit and talk. By this way, teenagers will have the obesity problem.
Now a days, you can see people of all ages tapping away at their electronics. They are always using social media or other things, but most importantly, social media. According to “Teenage Social Media Butterflies May Not Be Such a Bad Idea” by Melissa Healy and “Antisocial Media” by Hilary Stout, They both talked about social media taking over the lives of children. They also describe how children cannot develop empathy for others or understand different emotions. How I feel about social media is that it is not good for children to use because it can affect them in the future.
With the first true ever smartphone coming out in 1992, the first phone that we consider a “smartphone” came out in 2007. iPhone made the multitouch smart phones iconic. The first phone that doesn’t require a keyboard, or a stylus. Teens and adults loved the innovated phone that over the last 10 years of these devices, iPhone has made 700 billion in revenue, selling 1.2 billon phones since their start on June 29th, 2007. Over this decade teens have become so engrossed looking at their phone screen that they don’t interact with their peers.
Jean M. Twenge argues that the excessive use of smartphones and social media is detrimental to the current and upcoming generations. My experience using Snapchat, Instagram, and other applications on my smartphone supports this because I have experienced some of the effects Twenge has stated in the article such as the way smartphones causes sleep deprivation among teens, the fact that teens who are involved in smartphone use are more likely to be unhappy, and that they are more likely to be lonier. The consensus that was concluded from Twenge’s argument is that the use of smartphones is causing the current generation in some way, shape or form to lack in the ability to socialize, the ability to reach contentment within their lives, and the
“It found that the more time teens spend on social media, the more likely they are to feel depressed and have problems sleeping”(2). Parents should take their children electronics before they sleep. Parents shouldn’t let their teens check their social media before they fall asleep because there could be something that will make the teen stay up and tired and depressed for that night. It is scientifically proven that when you fall asleep with stress it could kill you.
That being said, the internet could be a very dangerous thing for children to discover. The internet has many uses and can teach us many great things but letting children use it can lead to bad things, such as changes in attitude, thought process and general health conditions. It could corrupt their minds in ways that may not be suitable for the youth. An example of negative access to the internet would have to violence.
Negative effects on health Researches have found that an excessive amout of social networking has affected behaviour such as depression, drug abuse and isolation among teenagers. In extreme cases, the negative effect can even extend to suicide. Isolation Online ‘interaction’ with our ‘friends’ on social networks are the cause that we less and less time outdoors and with other human beings. The lack of physical contact with our with other people can result in many symptoms including depression, somatic symptoms, and anxiety. Accidental leakage of confidential information
A group of pediatrics has listed that dangers of social networking for children and teenagers need to be known to all parents out there. This is because unsupervised use of social networking has been linked to their depression and even suicide. Face book has been linked to pedophile crimes that occur by people who target young children and teenagers and stock them. They have also been exposed to and even “sexting” with them, which means that the stocker would act as a teenager and talk about private matters to arose the teenager or child. Furthermore, teenagers and children have also become victims of cyber-bullying which has
However, texting helps people in many different ways. An example can come from Rich Ling’s article “Teens texting and Social Isolation” he states, Texting can nonsocial teenagers, he continues saying that texting us a good way to bring access to emergencies. Specifically, if any emergency rises and calling is not an option in that situation, sending a quick text message to a friend, family member, or acquaintance. The one could be saved from a detrimental situation. Teenagers can be shy in certain circumstances.
People can also take movies too seriously at times. It can make them reenact scenes out of violent and horror movies. One important form of media that every parent should be concerned about is the type of video games that allow their children to play. The content of the games say eighteen and over for a reason. Kids all around the world are minors that play games that are Rated M for mature.