Social media impacts this because kids are constantly worried about what others think of them. It takes away the ability to strongly identify yourself without the necessary need of other 's opinions. So, the individuation process seems to be drawing out longer and happening later in like because of the need to feel praise and the good feeling that social media brings them. " How does access to the internet impact the transition
Females are attracting more slowly in chat rooms and other communication areas than men (Pierce, 2009). In these days, technology plays an important role in our daily lives, especially in teenagers’ lives. In addition, the increasing of using technology made teenagers tend to use communication technology such as texting, rather than talking face-to-face. According to Lenhart, Madden, and Hitlin (2005), “approximately 75% of teens use instant messaging on a regular basis” (Pierce, 2009). However, a number of organizations have examined if communication technology has negative or positive effects on teenagers’ relationship with their families and friends.
Children often get distracted while looking at the given information and this makes the purpose quite pointless. Through digital media children’s attitudes and habits are affected as well as their state of mind because of the interaction with the internet-based content. Teachers aren’t always lucky to be placed at schools with well-equipped technology and electricity. Teachers have to be able to rely on their own creativity when faced with a situation where they are placed at a disadvantaged school or in a rural area. There are also times when a back-up is needed if there is no electricity or data.
Social media is a useful tool to students, but too much use of social media has changed the daily routine in their education, instead of reading books and studying. Students waste too much time in using social media and prefer holding gadgets and it as past time hobby. Many students are using social media thus students still have different perspective in using it. Thus social media gives positive review on how it can help students in studies. “Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionized the way we learn” according to Steve Jobs n.d. Education in today’s world is all about connection in social media.
Therefore, when we are too depending on electronic devices, people become talking to each other in face to face method become rarely because of the addicted in using social networking platforms and also can decrease our confidence level in public speaking. However, there are also some pros and cons in this learning purpose because not all of us can afford electronic devices and maybe some of us prefer to discuss their school work one on one with their instructor instead of having a conversation through devices. Even with having these entertainments on our electronic devices, we also can entertain ourselves by playing some traditional games, join some beneficial activities in the campus and many more. Not only we can release our stress, we also can gain general knowledge from the activities that we’ve involved in those
Due to email and cell phones, it is now unnecessary to talk to someone face-to-face in order to make a business deal. This convenience can weaken business relationships, however, because interactions through texting and email can often be misinterpreted. Many still find it more effective to meet in person in order to gauge a business partner’s reactions (Sharkey). Technology not only impacts business relationships, but it changes the family dynamic, too. Children are spending more time watching television and playing computer games than spending time with their families.
“Technology is a body of knowledge devoted to creating tools, processing action and extracting of materials”( Karehka Ramey,2013). These days, technology targets young generations, because they really do not know how to use it. It does affect them much more then we could imagine and has many side effects that we are unaware of. Some of the effects; such as laziness, game addiction and the most importantly minors can access explicit web site which is illegal such as pornography. Some people support technology; however, the majority thinks that innovations make us lazy and should reduce the amount of producing technology.
The issue of youths nowadays going online to dupe people is a very bad influence of technology. It is not a thing of surprise that these mobile phones are now major distractions to students as the need of belonging to a social media community now becomes their priority, not their books. It is not only students that are affected; same is the case of our present day youths. Moreover, it is quite obvious that gradually the standard of education is reducing, exam boards now realize that students do not read anymore and to avoid or prevent mass failure, they tend to make their exam questions easier. Why is this so all of a sudden?
Some people said that the technology may cause many problems in the education fields for many reasons. As it was stated in occupytheory.org and other websites under the title of “Disadvantages of technology in education” Laziness in Studying Computers are done to make things easier on human so it may cause laziness on some students since they could find what they want by a click without researches. Forgetting the Basic Way of Studying Some people claims that student would not be using books anymore and they will forgot about how to study and do home works on organize their work. Discovering Unusual Things in the Computer Students are going to be using internet without monitoring them so they might discover many things that are wrong and may cause badly on them is the
Technology, can make a person's/student's life better or worse, depending on what it is and how it is used. Most of students get lost in virtuality. They choose easy way and dont know that it could affect negatively. Phones and laptops replaced note books and library especially. Nowadays students prefer to take a picture of whats is written on the board than to have a note .