Article Summaries : ' Omg Teens And Their Phones ' By Bob Ross

Kate Hafner’s article, “Texting May Be Taking a Toll” claims that texting is an issue to teenagers around the world. As an illustration, Hafner starts the article by identifying that teenagers send a drastic amount of texts in their everyday lives. according to the Nielsen Company, “American teenagers sent and received an average of 2,272 text messages per month in the fourth quarter of 2008”(1). This is just one of the examples of many that portrays teenagers around the world send many text messages. Along with teenagers sending many texts a day, hafner also shows in this article that texting is affecting teenager's life in many different ways for example, preventing teenagers' way of becoming independent. Just as professor Turkle presented,

Today I think people, especially teens, are on their phone way too much. When I walk down the street, all I see is the top of people’s heads. The things that really stand out to me are how we overuse our technology to the point where people are being distracted when they drive and how people are becoming lazy and passive learners. While some might say we should not limit how much we use our cell phones, I think we would be better off limiting our time and usage on our phones.

In society today, almost everyone is guilty of spending too much time on electronic devices, cell phones in particular. Teens and parents alike can’t go for five minutes without checking for new notifications. According to Kelly Wallace in her article “Half of Teens Think They’re Addicted to Their Smartphones,” cell phone usage has become a real problem which affects not only teens, but adults as well. Within the article, it is stated that, “Sixty-nine percent of parents check their phone at least hourly compared to the 78% of teens who say they do that” (Wallace). Considering these alarming statistics it's no wonder that people have begun to admit to the over usage. Parents in particular worry about their teens over usage and have even gone

So the news is we have indefinitely entered a new zone of communication in the twenty-first century. “They do it at night when their parents are asleep. They do it in restaurants and while crossing the streets. They do it in the classroom with their hands behind their back. They do it so much their thumbs hurt.”(Hafner) Texting and teens has become a cause for concern. The stereotype of young chatty teens spending hours on the phone has faded. The interactions have been replaced with a kid hunched over a handset, tapping out texts, emails, or Facebook messages. Fox News aired a segment Sleep Texting a Growing Problem among Teens. The segment argued the relative health problems associated with teen

People have cell phones everywhere, especially teenagers. Teenagers are glued to their cell phones; they need cell phones almost everywhere they go. Today teens are depending on their phones for everything. The number of cell phones users has increased and as of 2010, there were more than 303 million subscribers in the U.S., according to the cellular companies (Hanna). As a result of teenagers over using cell phones, teens are being impacted emotionally, socially, and physically.

Writer Jennifer Ludden confirms, “75 percent of teens between the ages of 12 and 17 now have cell phones.” What Ludden is trying to say is that back then many people did not had cell phones and now mostly everybody has one. Even early teens at 12 now have their own phone and they start over texting at that age. Phone companies want to show the people that having a phone could be a great experience by adding new features to it but it only makes teens obsessed with them more. As Ludden adds, “Many parents surveyed say they've taken away their child’s cell phones as punishment.” She is stating that the cell phones are so attached to teens now getting them taken away by parents is a form of punishment

Teenagers find themselves needing that constant “connection” to someone that they check their phone very often. To help avoid this issue that is killing teens at an alarming rate (11 teen deaths every day), parents need to have open communication with their teens. According to Witmer (2016), Parents shouldn’t constantly try and investigate if their teen has been texting and driving but by setting clear rules and expectations teen are more likely to listen to their

Mobile devices have been strictly affecting teens in a negative way. Numerous teens struggle academically because of their cell phone usage. When young adults are constantly on their cellular devices, they will begin to experience negative effects of social media and other websites that they use as a distraction. Most teens don’t know the misfortune that they can get into if they don’t know how to use the internet right. As a result, they start to have poor habits, having to check their social media even when it’s unnecessary. “Smartphones present a huge distraction in classrooms, where teachers are forced to compete for students’ attention” (Katz). Not just in classroom, but also getting into trouble for using the

Obsessive use of technology socially isolates us and destroys our social skills. The first effect of excessive time with technology and media is social isolation. As published in the New York Times article “Antisocial Networking”, the Pew Research Center found that half of American teenagers — defined in the study as ages 12 through 17 — send 50 or more text messages a day and that one third send more than 100 a day. Two thirds of the texters surveyed by the center’s Internet and American Life Project said they were more likely to use their cell phones to text friends than to call them. Fifty-four percent said they text their friends once a day, but only 33 percent said they talk to their friends face-to-face on a daily basis. This research is proof that children are more willing to text their friends rather than to talk with them, therefore they are less likely to meet their friends in person as often as they text. So although kids chat through their cell phones, they are still socially isolated when it comes to having real conversations. Next, overuse of

Texting interferes with teenagers ' family life as well. In the online article, "Technology," the author shows that cell phones distract and disrupt family. For a parent, handling a teenager is hard enough. Hormones are on the rise and tempers get heated. Parents have trouble with their kids ' behavior and expenses because of cell phones ("Technology"). School and other activities seem to be affected which involves parents getting calls home and taking time to deal with the problems. Phone bills and outrageous rates put a burden on parents as well. Bills can add up to more than a hundred dollars a month ("Technology"). Communication needs to happen between family members. A teen correspondent named Furwah Hassan explains that with all of the online and social media distractions, parents do not get to talk to their kids enough. All the new fun things that are put on phones give teenagers more things to do on their cell phones (Hassan). All this does is take time away from important things like family. The addiction to cell phones and all the innovations means that surrounding things come second. Family time is minimal as teenagers choose their cell

The rapidly growing rate of phone technology at this modernized generation is kind of disturbing. In the modern technology world, people have become so accustomed to the idea of sending and receiving information almost instantly. It seems that anywhere you go someone is glued to their cell phone screen, fingers just typing away. Look around in any public vehicles, in restaurants, on sidewalks, school premises, even at a crowded place you can notice most people are holding their phones and text messaging. Majority of these people are teenagers. We can’t seem to stay away from it for a few hours. Text messaging is perhaps one of the things that people do most daily. With the introduction of text messaging feature, conversation over text messages become popular among a large number of people.

Did you know that Bill Gates' children weren’t allowed to have smartphones till they were fourteen? The former Microsoft CEO, who no doubt knows something about technology, recognized the serious hazards that came with these devices. More and more children in both Elementary and Middle schools are receiving smartphones from their parents. Why is this? Perhaps its the social pressure, making parents feel that their kids need to have phones if they're going to fit in. It is also possible that parents are simply handing down their older smartphones to their kids as free “gifts”. But are they really gifts? Or are they more like burdens? Child psychologists and internet safety leaders agree; to own a phone, a person should be at least fourteen. A child under 8th grade should absolutely not be given a smartphone.

During the most developed period of time, many adolescents in countries like America, UK, China, and Japan receive their first advanced phones in their early teens. Modern cell phones are used in many additional services other than basic phone calls such as texting, gaming, internet access, MP3 players, camera, and etc. By using cell phones, teenagers are more easily to access in complicated society online. Without fully awareness on the major issues associated with cellular phones, teenagers and children aren’t ready to handle different cell phones’ issues by themselves. The excessive use of cellphones has negatively effects on adolescents regarding physical and psychological health, academic courses, and the society; therefore, parents and schools should supervise and limit teenagers' cell phones uses.

Research shows that, “in the United States, 173 billion text messages were sent monthly by 293 million cell phone subscribers, according to mid-year 2010 data. That’s about 20 daily text messages per subscriber” (Isaiah, Williams, & Byron, 2011, p.66). Technology use is growing every year and, as noted earlier, the younger generation is spending additional time on it than before. The availability of technology such as cell phones and computers are made available to almost every household, makes this a trending topic (Hertlein, 2012). It is important to focus further research into how this growing trend of digital use affects the families that are using it, and how it affects them personally, their family relationships, and family life in general. The research for this topic could be used to help parents adjust screen time for their family and help them to understand how technology

In school majority of the students use their cell phones in class and they don’t pay attention to the subject their working.Many fail classes because students are too busy texting or on facebook. It’s really sad how technology can change studying and how grades go down. Students in Middle School use cell phones very often that they don't even pay attention to their teachers lecturing. Students even make new friends by facebook that they forget their real friends. Students think texting is something important to do but really it seems just a waste of time.Students should spend more time in paying attention in school of being texting or on facebook.Parents should not be buying their kids cell phones because its bad for their studying.They should have phones till they are in high school not middle school because they don't know how to handle it and in high