Negative Effects Of Technology On Youth

The article, “What Adolescents Miss When We Let Them Grow up in Cyberspace,” written by Brent Staples discusses negative influences that internet has toward teens. The author elaborates that teens are far more comfortable with online conversations. Social Media has high expectations to how a teen should act or look. Media emotionally scars teens, demanding them to have clear skin and skinny body. The more people that are connected to their phones, higher the chance of losing relationships. The internet has left many teens with unreal social skills. Real life experiences such as law, teens are not knowledgeable. Teenagers miss out on life experiences that can help them grow into adulthood.

According to a 2010 Kaiser Foundation study, which involved elementary children, concluded that on average 75 percent of parents allowed their children to have bedroom TV’s, North American households keep their TV’s on for 50 percent of the day, and use 7.5 hours of technology entertainment per day (Rowan). Technology is becoming a problem throughout the United States, especially in elementary aged kids. Parents are introducing technology as early as infants so that they understand certain information at an early age. When parents introduce technology at such an early age they are giving their children the advantage to be addicted to the wonders of it. Young children are at a high risk of brain damage with the advancement of technology. The more adults introduce technology to younger children the higher the chances of problems it causes. Technology has a negative effect on younger children and should have limitations on the age in which it is being introduced.

Instead of walking down the street talking to someone or meeting someone new, people are plugged into a device and ignoring the world around them. In “The Flight From Conversation,” Sherry Turkle discusses how millenials spend all day every day at a desk right next to someone else and never speak more than a couple words to them (85). People just aren’t engaging in much conversation today due to technology. Any conversing today is done via text message, email, or instant messaging on various social media websites or apps. Turkle also talks about how the rare times when people do communicate, it’s just in small blurbs and snippets. She complains about millenials and their idea that a quick text, letting someone know that they’re thinking about them, is suffice enough for a large chunk of conversation (85). People should not let technology come in the way of having a good

Most adults would say that kids in today's day and age have it a thousand times easier than they did when they were young. They might have had to walk 30 miles to school in the rain, however, they were not faced with modern technology and the potentially harmful side effects it has on youth. The harmful effects of technology on youth tends to be overlooked, especially by parents who do not pay this topic any attention. In turn, this allows their children to develop mental and social health issues.

To this day and age, we see more and more children and teenagers craving technology. We now see ten year olds with their own iPhones. This has caused many children and teenagers to become addicted to technology. For this reason, technology exposure limitations should abide. What ever happened to only calling and texting on a phone? “A recent meta-analysis of post studies led by researchers at the University of Exter, U.K., suggests that men who store their phones in their pockets risk exposing themselves to radiation levels that may and also lower sperm levels”(Holmes). Technology damages people’s minds, bodies, and lives, and should limit the use of technology for children and teenagers.

Technology can have good things and bad things, however teenagers have a habit of believing what is told to them, even if really it is false information. On many websites, random people can write information that they say is ‘true’. According to Mandy Oaklander, “The thing that teenagers are most often attached to, technologically speaking, is their phone. Many young people cannot last mere minutes without their phones. Teenagers are accompanied by their phones in almost every situation: eating dinner with friends, sitting in their desks at school, even going to bed. It seems that teenagers are reliant on their phones for everything they do.” As said in this text it is clearly seen that teenagers do everything with their phone, and worse, they believe what is told to them. technology has a negative effect of the relationships due to the internet breaking teenagers lives

The teenage years are hard for everyone. Unfortunately, teens in today’s world are faced with pressures that twenty years ago young people did not have to go through. For the majority of youth in the US, a large part of their lives is put on social media. Technology has opened up the opportunity to predators to message or persuade impressionable youth. There are countless stories on the news about teens or children that have been abducted due to adults talking to them online. Criminals can easily enter a person’s home now just by children using the computer. Technology has opened up a new realm for children to be harmed and when measures are taken to close off one avenue of attack, the perpetrators find a new way. All children are warned

In this day and age, technology is a major part of our everyday lives. Think of our schedules and where technology fits into them. We wake up, with an alarm clock; technology. We make breakfast, in a microwave; technology. We commute, in cars; technology. Almost everything we do involves technology. One form that commonly occupies our attention and focus is social media. Social media is any communication that can be done using electronics. Not only do older people find themselves immersed in social media, but so do children. This form of technology can be dangerous for youth, tactically imbedding snares, which can easily entangle them.

Have you ever buried your face in your smartphone for hours? Have you missed out on events or told your friends you couldn’t hang out because you just wanted to stay at home and watch Netflix or play video games? If so, you probably have, or have previously had, an addiction to technology. The first Apple iPhone was only released ten years ago, and it is becoming a bigger issue for this generation’s teenagers. Teenagers are abusing modern technology it’s affecting them and others negatively because it encourages irritability and depression, discourages face-to-face interaction, and puts teenager’s privacy and safety at risk.

The article presents the problem with communication with lots of research that has been done in past years. The research data presented was mostly accurate throughout the essay. Another article written by Angle, Moscaritolo state that, “teens sends and receive 60 texts message a day, up from 50 in 2009…” so as the years go by there has been an increase in the use of smartphones. We can be in a family meeting, but more often will find out that teens prefer to “talk” to you by text than having face-to-face

Kids when they are younger are now exposed to cell phones and technology at a young age to keep them interested or busy, which is beneficial for the moment, but not in the long run. For example, I nanny a three-year-old boy who has year old twins in his life. Taking care of the twins and satisfying him at the same time was hard work so they introduced the cell phone to the little boy. This did the job by keeping him entertained, but a couple months later, he is constantly consumed by the phone. He watches it while eating dinner, going to the bathroom, taking a bath, and while getting dressed. When family members talk to him, he does not respond, and they then continue to ask until around the fifth time when he answers. They have started to realize the problem and they are trying to end the cell phone use until he is older. It is very hard, but it has become a problem that they need to fix. My solution to this, and to any other kids who are consumed by phones is to first of all, not introduce the devices to them until a good time when they can control their use. When they are that young, they should only have screen time for about a half hour a day, or whatever is a good amount of time the parents think. For those who do not know how much cell phones or any devices effect the attention spans of children should know the what happens before allowing so much screen time for their children. Next, there should be no phones at dinner because that is a time to interact with family

Technology has become an intricate part of society, the implementation of human knowledge into man made machines has lead to gargantuan leaps and bounds in human development in all areas of life. Furthermore, the advancement of technology has had a climactic effect on humans as a species, more so those of adolescence or teenage age group. Teens are notoriously known for their love of technology ranging from cellphones to laptops. Teens use technology for various beneficial purposes such as homework and research papers. While the benefits of technology are evident and present in teenage life, it has proven to have negative side effects. This is stated by (Scikits ) “ Technology can help students with their studies. However, on the other overusing technology can be quite harmful in several ways”. This shows that technology is a double edged sword within the hands of teenagers.

According to statistics, technology has been proven to harm youth. Technology can be considered as all sorts of things such as electricity, a microwave, television, cars, etc. This essay primarily focuses on cell phones, tablets, and computers. Technology distracts teenagers from important activities such as driving and walking. Teenagers endanger their lives and the lives around them. They lose focus on the importance of getting to their location safely. Technology robs independence from teenagers because parents always keep tabs on them. Kids do not know what it feels like to step away from their families, even for a minute because parents over protect them. Teenagers feel the need to please others through social media by following certain trends to make them appear more interesting. They feel obligated to alter their actual personalities to fit to the liking of society on the internet. In the context of this essay, youth is the latest generation of today. This basically refers to the age of Millennials and younger. It seems that technology has severely affected this age group more than the rest of the generations. Technology started to improve greatly around their time. The internet has gotten faster and more efficient, apps tell people their daily plans, and so on. Today’s technology influences youth negatively because it causes safety hazards, robs independence, and lessens confidence.

Several studies have shown that teens and young children that use excessive amounts of social media are becoming less and less able to communicate and convey their emotions in a constructive way. This technology is ruining the art of conversation. In one article a teacher said she 's noticed that more students tend to avoid eye contact and have trouble with the basics of direct conversation — habits that, she says, will not serve them well as they enter the real world. What’s wrong with conversation then? Why are teens so averse to it? Most students say that they hate face to face interactions because it takes place in real time, and

A Pew Research Center survey uncovered that “92% of adolescents ages 12-17” reported using the internet daily (Wartella, 2016). Not only is technology commonly used by adults, but this data from the Pew Research Center suggests adolescents additionally use technology for countless other purposes. The increasing omnipresence of the Internet in the lives of adolescents is by now well recognized. Furthermore, adolescents use digital technology at a scale never seen before to operate both unprofessional and professional applications without fully understanding the consequences. Adolescents use technology as both a personal and an educational tool; however, the long-term developmental effects technology will have are highly debated. Within that decade of development, digital technology has come to be used for a multitude of things, including personal communication and educational development.