The New Addiction- Smartphones

    (Introduction) “Put down the phone, turn off your the laptop, and do something-anything-that doesn’t involve a screen” (Twenge 63). It is astonishing the amount of time teens spend on phones. Jean Twenge discusses the effects smartphone usage has created among the younger and past generations in the article, “Has the Smartphone Destroyed a Generation”. The purpose of Twenge’s article is to aware readers about the many consequences the smartphone usage has impacted generations.

“Technology should improve your life...not become your life”is a quote from Billy Cox that talks about how technology is being used too much.An app is being developed to help people control their time on social media.This app would be a good tool for people who want to reduce their time on their devices.Some reasons why this is helpful is many people become addicted to technology,some people neglect their families and friends when they’re on their phones,and people can miss out on life if they are trying to record it.

The article states, “Fifty percent of teens feel they are addicted to their mobile devices...A larger number of parents, 59% said their teens were addicted. The poll involved 1,240 interviews with parents and their children, ages 12 to 18.” Wallace and other parents interviewed for the story, are convinced that teens are practically attached to their phones, even the teenagers admit this statement it true.

Ever since smartphones were created, they have changed teenagers’ lives entirely. The article Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation? by Jean Twenge, shows the ways the invention of the smartphone has changed recent generations. The article mentions the rise in teen depression and suicide, cyberbullying, and teen safety. It also mentions the decline in our social abilities, dating, and sleep. Smartphones have had both negative and positive affects on teenagers, but the negatives significantly outweigh the positives, which points to the need to put down the smartphones, as the article suggests.

The AVID weekly article says, “Do get on your phone in front of family or friends to look up important, relevant information. This shows that if we do bring in more devices then we can try teach to use phones only when needed. The quote also shows that not all teens use their phones when there is no need for using them. The Scholastic article says, “94% of teens who have a smart phone use it daily.” This quote shows that if we do bring in other devices that it would more likely be easier to use them because teens use their phones so much. The quote also supports that it would less likely happen of someone breaking the devices because so much people would know how to use the devices. The AVID weekly and Scholastic article show that teens use their phones a large amount of time but it can be a good thing and a very bad thing result

According to Twenge, the number of teens that go out with their friends has decreased by 40 percent compared to earlier generations. Twenge compares iGens to different generations such as Gen X (born between 1965 and early 1984), baby boomers (1946-1964) and Millennials (born around 1982-2002). Twenge emphasizes on the time teenagers spend on their phones. Social media plays a huge role in this. In accordance to Twenge, different forms of social media like Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat are what teenagers spend more time on. According to Twenge, the more time teens spend on smartphones the greater they are at risk for suicide, depression, and loneliness. Twenge also explains how teens are not receiving an adequate amount of sleep, many teens now sleep less than seven hours. Twenge concludes the article by sharing her own experience with her children and technology, she recommends parents to limit the time their children spend on phones. (59-65)

Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?, by Jean M. Twenge, was published in the September 2017 Issue of The Atlantic. Twenge discusses the impacts of smartphones in teens (also referred to as “iGen’s”) today and attempts to determine if smartphones have caused a generation to falter in their mental and physical health. The author interviews a 13 year old girl about issues teens are developing due to these devices. She examines the spike in teen suicide rates since the invention of the smartphone, how teens no longer go out and socialize with others, and the lack of sleep teens may be getting due to smartphone activity.

Teenagers which define as the age between 13-18 are the most potential victim of the smart phone addiction. There is a 100% of positive answer where people nowadays owned a smart phone. Based on the questionnaires, there are up to 55% of our respondents will spent above 4 hours in using their smart phone per day, while the rest of them who usage is in between 1-4 hours and Data collected shows that the usage of smart phone is mostly for the entertainment purpose, such as games, chatting and browsing videos or songs. Next will be the academic purpose and personal use. Throughout the survey, most of the respondent states that most of the impact of smart phone,either in a good or a bad way, will be in the health aspect, while relationship or others are the subsequent impact. As for the health aspect, all of the interviewee agreed that the impact on it is in a bad way. Smart phone may become one of the main reasons in experiencing tiredness of eyes, headache, short-sightedness or even myopia. In terms of relationship, most of the respondents make clear of the bad impact of smart phone on it. The most commonly reasons given is that family bonding become estranged as people tend to spent more time in their smart phone instead. However, some view this with a positive impact, said that smart phone increase the bonding of a group of family members by sharing informations via smart

First, Twenge explains that smartphones lead teens to spend less time with friends, causing immaturity and a lack of social skills. For example, within the first couple of paragraphs, Twenge provies exerts of an interview she had with a young teen, showing how much more dependent teenagers today are on their parents than past generations (Twenge). The interview truly shows how smart-technology may be causing young people to draw in on themselves and interact with people outside of their family less. Next, Twenge tells that excessive smartphone use affects teens’ mental health and ability to make decisions. Twenge provides evidence of this claim with statistics of the steep rise of depression and suicide rates in teens over the past few years (Twenge).

In the article “Have Smart Phones Destroyed a Generation?” Jean M. Twenge discusses that smartphones are highly affecting iGen — the name Twenge call the generation after millennials, highly than the past generations. Smartphone has the tendency of impacting teens lives in this world and in their daily life. Jean M. Twenge explains that the invention of smartphones has radically changed every characteristic of teens lives. Spending more time on screen dramatically impacts or change the behavior of teens in which it significantly affects their health.

Everywhere you go teens seem to be glued to their phones, tablets, or computers. Technology is an addiction that does not seem to be going away any time soon. According to the Washington Post, teens can spend up to seven or more hours on their digital devices a day and the usage is still increasing. Not surprisingly enough, more than a third of all teenagers own a cellphone, ranging from a smart phone or just a plain old-school flip phone. But can spending all that time on their computers and smart devices be such a bad thing? Today’s easy access, always on world presents a wealth of opportunity for teens as students, but also challenges them to retain them essential humanity and unique personalities.

“My IPhone addiction was making me a terrible mom” is an article by Meredith Hale and was published in the Washington post in mar 2015. This article is about an everyday mom who let her addiction of utilizing her IPhone daily become a problem in her family lives. She delayed daily activities just by spending time on her phone and her children were somewhat unhappy. So she decided to stop complete use of her phone for a week. The author goes to explain how she became aware of her own addiction after returning a tablet she didn’t want her daughter to get addicted to. I do agree that she should have made a change to her use of the phone. However, I do not think a week without it completely solved the problem. She should have

Nowadays, we can easily see people sitting around each other but only staring at their smartphone without any conversation. Smartphones of today have so many features that people can hardly seem to look up and keep them for a second. These behavior is more likely to be see as an addiction. Obviously, people have different opinion regarding smartphone addiction where some people think it is a problem whereas some might not. Despite of all the facts and opinion we question ourselves are we even addicted to smartphone? Do we reach for our smartphone first thing in the morning? Is our smartphone the last thing we check at night? In “Stop Smartphone Insanity”, the purpose of the commercial is to persuade people to stop smartphone addiction that is dangerous and I think that they did an excellent job presenting their idea.

Nomophobia, the fear of being out of mobile phone contact. The phrase was coined by a U.K. study commissioned by SecurEnvoy as an abbreviation for no-mobile-phone phobia. According to an article, 77% of the 18-24 age group revealed nomophobia.  If a person doesn’t have his or her cell phone, and feels uncomfortable trying to respond to real life situations without it, experts warn this is addiction.

Every single one of us owns a smartphone or uses a phone a close relative of ours owns. If you deny this, there is a very high chance you are lying because over 75 percent of teens have access to smartphones. We are always told by our parents that we spend too much time on our phones and it’s true. Kids as young as three are learning to watch YouTube. As a result, smartphones can be detrimental to our health. This raises concerns among researchers and even parents: how young is too young for a smart Phones?