Social media and social networking play important roles in people’s lives. The way of living life from the past generation to the current generation is changing unquestionably. Children are raised up with electronic devices, such as iPods, iPads, smart phones, laptops, tablets, computers, and so on. A student from California State University of Las Angeles, Yzzy Gonalez has written an essay “Technology Taking Over.” She opens her essay talking about her morning routine. Gonzalez says, “I jump in the shower, get dressed for the day (based on what weather.com is telling me to expect)” (50). My morning routine starts similarly. Technology has been important and advantageous in my life. It is true that technology does have some negative impact …show more content…
We can watch videos on YouTube and google to learn, or know something new. For example, as an English second language student, sometime I have a hard time understanding what the teacher is teaching in the class. Therefore, I look up the topic in YouTube and I watch videos. Youtube has been the tutor source for me. Also, I watched online videos to learn new recipes for cooking. Importantly, technology saves time. In the essay “The Parent Trap: How Teens Lost Ability to socialize” by Clive Tompson”, he talks about it is not teens fault that they are losing face to face conversation or social skills, but it is parents mistake. To support his essay, Thompson has written research fact which had been done by Danah Boyd. Boyd discovered, “is that today’s teens have neither the time nor the freedom to hang out” (56). Students have a hard time managing time for socializing with friends and family face to face due to the busy schedule. Therefore, technology is useful for students. For example, to do academic research academic, now we can use the internet to do research. If there was no development of technology students had to search for the book and read which would take a lot of time, but now students can just type it in a few words and everything else can finished by internet. Why do we need to have face to face conversation when we can deliver same the message by phone call, or by text? We do need to have …show more content…
To play games with our friends, we do not need to be near them because of technology. Thompson says, “It’s true. As a teenager in the early ’80s I could roam pretty widely withy my friends, as long as we were back by dark. But over the next three decades, the begin reliving a metronomic diet of horrifying but are child-abduction stories, and parents shortened the leash on their kids.” (55). In this modern generation, crimes are increasing. There are many cases we have heard/seem in news about shooting innocent people, shooting at school and so on. Now a days, It is dangers for children/teenage to be out. Therefore, they can play games at home alone or with friends. There are many online games, where we can play and talk through the internet. For example, my brother plays an online soccer game called FIFA, where he can talk and play at the same time. Also, we can do online shopping through internet. There are many online shopping websites, but the most popular ones are eBay and amazon. Most of the time I do online shopping to buy clothes, shoes and so on because buying is less expensive compare to shopping at malls or
In The Parent Trap: How Teens Lost the Ability to Socialize, Clive Thompson argues that the accusation that teenagers spend too much time socializing online than in real life, is at the fault of the parents, via the mindset that youth should not hang around each other alone and that their after school lives should be filled with tasks that will get them into
Technology takes away the stress of getting to someone’s house to give them the information. In the article, “Meet Your IBrain: How Technology Changing the Way We Think”, state that, “we develop a better ability to sift through large amounts of information rapidly and decide what’s important and what isn’t- our mental filters basically learn how to shift into overdrive” (146). They believe with the help of technology we are able to receive information within a short amount of time. You may not appreciate technology and how it has made getting information out easy unless you has lived your childhood life in a village, where you have to walk for 30 minutes just to pass around information. It was very hard getting information passed around back in the days.
The author also illustrates the image of technology that how people are using without interacting each other. I agree with the author’s point that technology has a huge impact on our
Should we increase technology to all modern forms of computing system in classrooms?According to the articles, “Is Technology Killing our Friendship” and “When it is and isn’t OK to be on your Smartphone:the conclusive guide”,we are misusing our smartphones. In the article, “Is Technology Killing our Friendship,” it talks about how technology is affecting teens by making them choose over their social friends than real friends. In the article “When it is and isn’t OK to be on your Smartphone,” it shows that when you should and should not use your smartphone. These both articles explain how technology can affect teens and how it will not be a good idea to expand all types of modern technology. Technology does have positive impacts on teens but also negative.
Some will say that it has to do with the violence that technology has brought about. It is not unlikely for you to find a teenager in his basement after school playing a shooting game. The idea behind it, is that it introduces kids to violence. From there, they begin to look up dangerous people. Take Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, the two boys who shot up Columbine High School, for example.
This is unfortunate, because technology has brought about the many wonderful opportunities through social media and global communication. People need to stop relying on technology in order to counteract the habits acquired through the use of technology that have made people, as a whole, dumber. Social Media has changed the way people go through their daily lives and using it can cause issues. In fact, it can cause anxious and nervous people depending on the environment (Sanders 19). Also, if people use technology for a great amount of time, they start to get uncomfortable talking to people in social and business situations (“Technology and Society”).
At the same time, they are being taught teamwork skills and social skills as they communicate with other players from anywhere. It could be their best friend or they could be communicating with someone across the globe. Working together to focus on completing the levels within the games and getting achievements through the game. Some people argue that they are putting their aggression into their gaming so they are not actually physically hurting anyone, which does help decrease the crime rate the world has the now. Despite this young person playing video games has actually been found to be helping young people 's reaction time...
Although video games may be a bit more dramatic than real-life war, teens will discover strategies to fight, and hide. Video games are a highly beneficial activity for youths everywhere, and they should be kept. According to the article, (Mohammadi 2014) “How online gamers are solving science’s biggest problems”, in 2011, people playing Foldit, an online puzzle game about protein folding, resolved the structure of an enzyme that causes an Aids-like disease in monkeys. Researchers had been working on the problem for 13 years, yet the gamers had solved it in three weeks.
There are games that literally replicate and give people the ability to score points for doing the very same thing that these students are doing inside schools, where you get extra points for finishing someone off who’s lying there begins for their life.” ( 6) There are several ideas that say young people benefit from these violent video games “Surprisingly, playing video games can help our physical, mental, and emotional health.” It helps them to improve hand eye coordination and thinking ability. These benefits are not worth the risk of being influenced by violent video games. (7) All in all the research and officials say that violent video games affect how children, teenagers and young adults act.
Nowadays, technology devices become plays an important role in our daily lives, especially in adolescents’ categories. While there is a very clear argument for how the technology is effected on us and causing social isolation as we know, but in another way is also the argument that these technologies are helping us to become more social in our society. This is very probably because we have a good and perfect ability to communicate with each other. Despite long distances. We all know that the goal of technology is to make our lives easier and more efficient.
Some children at young age knows how to operate different sources of technology. However, the focus for my research is what impact does social media plays in our children life today and has it changes from the time it started to know. Social media is described as a broadcast of programs that one can obtain from their phones or any other smart device that connects them to the internet and a world life. The question I ask is social media different from from now. Or can it be threat for our children.
Although there are many negatives to technology and social media, there are also many positives. In the documentary Growing up with Gadgets a young girl is followed throughout her day to see how technology plays a role in her everyday life. In school technology is used throughout most of the day. Kids are given IPod touches that they use for certain activities. The kids are given an assignment where they need to take pictures, or record something.
The video game industry has surpassed both the music and movie industries in sales. In fact a big trend in gaming culture right now is First-person shooters, a style of gaming that allows players to identify as a shooter. As popular as these violent games are, this type of media is an offense to children’s growth and mental health. Even Jack Hollingdale and Tobias Greitemyer in their article The Effect of Online Violent Video Games on Levels of Aggression have “identified that violent video games increase levels of aggression”(Hollingdale and Greitmeyer). Additional legislations limiting the amount of violent content in video games are crucial in order to prevent minors from harmful exposure to violent language and images and to curtail replication
There are a lot of shooting incidents that happen nowadays, where the suspect has a history in playing violent video games. In fact, they assume that video games were the main reason for the incident of a shooting, which occurred on the 14th of December, 2012 by Adam Lanza who killed 20 children and 6 teachers in Sandyhook Elementary School because of the negative influence violent games had on him (Domenech, 2013, p.1). Despite this event, video games do not cause violence in the real world. Moreover, based on a study from 1996 till 2014 by the U.S. Department of Justice, video games increased in sales at the same time with the decrease of violent crimes. Video games sales had increased more than 3 billion dollars which led to the decrease of violent crimes by 1.5 million crimes over this 8 year period
Also, the technology not only makes people’s life easier, but also acts as a third-party to connect people. These days, the technology tends to develop rapidly. Due to the advanced technology, media have been also developed rapidly. Also, we became to watch and use different kinds of media or media platforms such as social media or social networking sites and individual media. According to the article, Social Network Sites: Public, Private, or What?, “Social network sites (SNSes) like MySpace, Facebook, and Bebo are ubiquitous and today’s youth are spending a great deal of time using these sites to access public life” (Boyd, 2007).