Teen Texting

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,

Did you know that the typical American teen sends about sixty texts a day? Texting is a great way to improve students’ writing skills. Also, texting is fun, creative, and it is also writing. On the other hand, some researchers might say that texting is having a negative impact on writing skills for American students. Texting has a positive impact on writing skills of teens these days.

Teens are starting to lose verbal communication skills every day. Instead of talking or calling they are on their phones texting. In the U.S more and more people are taking advantage of this and in the article, it states “79% of teens text each other rather than talk in person” (Lenhart). This proves that more than half of the teen population is on their phones a lot. This means they’re on social media brewing up conflicts.

Almost a generation of teens have access to a phone with text messages. They spend so much time shorting words, they lose the ability to be literate. Teenagers today are more worried about their phones, in school or out of school, causing them to drop their grades and get them in lots of trouble.

One night you go to bed late and when you wake up the next morning you realize just how bad you feel. You might want to think about what and how you used technology as you were trying to get to sleep or staying up until all hours of the night harmed your sleep. One reason teens might have problems getting enough sleep is that teens have habits that negatively affect their sleep.Some examples of bad habits are the use of technology and not going to sleep at a reasonable time. However, the use of technology isn’t always bad. One positive effect of using technology while trying to sleep can be seen when listening to low aroused music, for example. It is when teens use technology for other things that they hurt themselves. While some bad habits of teens can harm your sleep, some behaviors can make your sleep better.

Katie Hafner’s article, “Texting May Be Taking a Toll,” displays that the rising number of texts sent by adolescents day in and day out is starting to take a big toll on them, their lifestyle, and the people around them. To start off, in the first part of the article Hafner expresses that the point of the first section is that with a growing number of young people utilizing texting and using it nonstop texting is causing serious issues such as anxiety, failing grades, distraction in school, sleep issues and many others. The author exclaims in the section that, “The phenomenon is beginning to worry physicians and psychologists, who say it is leading to anxiety distraction in school, falling grades, repetitive stress injury and sleep deprivation.”

Many teens lose sleep due to texting and phone time. According to the article Two days with no phone,teens losing sleep may lead to trouble in school. Teens spending too much time on their phones is even linked to obesity. Teens on their phones are not teens exercising and getting fit. As stated by the article, by spending too much time on their phones, and not enough time doing things they like, teens may become overweight

In this rapidly progressing world, technology has brought society an easy and effective way to communicate with one another through the use of smartphones. When texting first came out, it wasn’t very popular but now it seem like we can’t go a day without sending text messages. Although texting is useful, it can harm our social lives, it can affect our academics (speech pattern and grammar) , and can also cause poor mental health when used at the wrong times; especially at night. We see this changes especially but not limiting to teens. Teenagers have adopted all night texting as if it was natural. For many teens, texting in the night is an important part of social life and therefore cannot be done without it.

A new disorder suffered principally by the teenagers, the sleep texting. The sleep texting is “reading and responding to text message while you are sleeping ”. A lot of cases of this new disorder have been reported and always for teenagers, one point more against technology.

Regularly student’s school grades increase due to technology. According to the text “Researchers also conclude the current generation has higher problem-solving skills due to their familiarly with social media sites, as well as the ability to synthesize information from a myriad of source.” (Source 2). Being on social media sites, you come across information you do and don’t know, then before you know it you see it on a test. Yet, there are many positive affects they’re many negative effects on using technology. According to the text “ A study published in 2009 Psychiatry and clinical Neuroscience evaluated 2,336 high school studies and concluded that students who spent an excessive amount of time on the internet reported being more tired during the day time and were at risk of drowsy driving, injuries in the workplace, and poor school performance” (Source 1). Sleep is a crucial part to anyone day especially a student. Studies shows how not getting enough sleep directly affects their

How is technology impacting teens’ mental health? It’s no secret that technology is a necessity nowadays, and the popularity and dependency is only growing. This is especially seen in teenagers. The question we need to ask ourselves is how is this dependency affecting our health and overall well being? Teens need about 9.5 hours of sleep a night. However, less than 20% of teenagers actually achieve this, according to a poll from the National Sleep Foundation from 2006. Due to the immense growth in popularity of technology, it can be assumed that this number has fallen in the last 11 years. Sleep deprivation can make people more irritable, tired, and susceptible to illness. Teens feel pressured to be reachable 24/7, and therefore stay up later in order to be able to talk, play games, watch videos or

The days of mailing letters to communicate with others are long gone. Now we have cell phones and they connect us with anyone within seconds. As handy as our cell phones are we are becoming too dependent on them, specially teenagers. We can no longer have a face-to-face conversation with a teenager because they are always looking down at their phone and their thumbs moving at the speed of light. Text messaging is affecting teenagers in crucial areas like social skills, writing abilities and their ability to drive safely.

What’s the price we pay for scrolling through our social media accounts at all hours of the night? According to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke [https://www.ninds.nih.gov/Disorders/Patient-Caregiver-Education/Understanding-Sleep], approximately 60 million Americans endure some form of disordered sleep in their lifetime. Although there are numerous reasons a person may encounter poor sleep, a growing area of research is shedding some light on the way nighttime social media usage (sometimes referred to as nocturnal smartphone usage) negatively affects the quality and quantity of sleep we are getting.

Dr. Cleland says, “Adolescence can be a period of increased vulnerability for the onset of depression and anxiety, and poor sleep quality may contribute to this. It is important that we understand how social media use relates to these. Evidence is increasingly supporting a link between social media use and wellbeing, particularly during adolescence, but the causes of this are unclear.” When we are tired we can get unfocused, then we don’t complete a task, when that happens people can feel bad about themselves and feel anxiety or depression. Teenagers spend more time on their phone then they are getting sleep and they are complaining, having anxiety because they have lack of sleep. Many teenagers are not getting the required sleep every night because of the distraction on our phone. Kids are spending every second of the day and night on their phones that they don’t have enough time to do anything else. Therefore, they don’t have enough time to do activities to get their minds off stressful things. When kids are rushing to get tasks done because they don’t have enough time they want to quit, when they quit they feel ashamed of themselves and can cause failure. Teenagers are spending too much time on social media when they could be doing other things that keep them healthy, like

study on texting, “fully 72% of all teens – or 88% of teen cell phone users – are textmessagers. That is a sharp rise from the 51% of teens who were texters in 2006”