Electronic communication is a less effective way you can talk to someone! Electronics have good qualities but over the last couple years has became a huge problem with teens and young adults. These devices are hurting our teens childhood,communication skills,school work,and sleeping habits. Electronic communications are often quick,but is ruining childhood and communication skills.
Electronics have taken a huge toll on childhood.Childhood in the past never included Facebook, Snapchat, or Twitter, that now exposes kids to things they should not know until later in life. Most fear that young kids are learning and getting exposed to certain things way too fast.For example,Victoria Cobb writes, ”The innocents of childhood is being threatened by
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This action is more likely to happen because the kids do not have communication skills in the first place. By communicating through text message you can not get your point across as if you were talking in person. It says in an article by Aldiray,“Communicating through a screen also removes the more impersonal and intamiding aspects of human affection.”(Aldiyar,1)In other words,you can not express your feeling over text message. Communicating through text message is hard to learn others body language and facial expressions.Aldiyar said, “ By communicating mostly through social media they are not learning how to read body language, facial expressions,or vocal inflections”(Aldiyar,1) When people use social media to communicate with others,the conversation gets misinterpreted because you don't know the other person's facial expressions.With all that being said, it is just so much easier to talk in person because it is easier to read facial expressions and body …show more content…
When kids use thinks like OMG,LOL,TGIF in texting then it becomes a habit and will end up being in their writing. Aldiyar mentioned,”One look at a teenagers text is enough to give any parent hard evidence that this online language could destroy everything they have learned in school as in proper spelling and grammar structure”(Aldiyar,1).When sitting at your desk doing homework and your phones goes off, you first instinct is to grab it and reply back,this interrupts school work and other activities. Studies have shown that “Kids become more distracted which means homework is getting interrupted,when they receive a new text messages,facebook and snapchat notification,or even email.”(Aldiyar,1). After being distractracted from your phone you lose your train of thought.As a result of all of that,your graded start failing…. And it's all because of one Facebook message.
Electronic communication is a less effective
According to a survey done by Pew Research in 2012, 75% of teens ages twelve to seventeen text and half of teens send sixty or more text messages a day, or eighteen hundred a month. This staggering amount of text messaging means that half of all teens are being interrupted in their day and are being distracted from what they were doing. With 15% of teens who are texters sending more than two hundred texts a day or more than six thousand texts a month, it is obvious that texting has become an addictive form of social media and is distracting many teens from getting any work done at all. Homework is interrupted when teens become distracted from notifications of a new chat messages from a social networking site, texts, or emails. There are even some young Americans who find themselves checking their phone for messages, alerts, or calls despite not hearing their phone ringing or vibrating. Research by Professor Larry Rosen at California State University shows that around 64% of those born after 1985 are checking their texts every fifteen minutes and nearly 40% are checking in on Facebook. With many young
While some adults are bitter on how kids these days do not experience life as they have, without electronics, and how those devices are corrupting the minds of children, we all know it is not true. The plague that attacks the minds of adolescents
It is his or her choice on what he or she decides to do with a text message. Teenagers now can allow imm...
I do agree that technology is taking over a side of childhood that can only be taught by going outside and being a kid which includes activities like going to the park and interacting with others, going outside and adventuring, learning what is right and wrong through experiences that you cannot go through online or just simply by watching. My opinion is that electronics may be consuming the minds of children on a good route to a long-term educational level. Many children are learning early on what some of us were taught in later toddler stages. Many television shows main idea is using different ideas to overcome an obstacle and/or teaching life lessons of good and bad.
Overall, the heavy use of technology can have negative effects on children, but technology is only becoming more apparent in their everyday
Kids now I days won’t live their full childhood experience. Their days are only going faster as they get older. Time really does go fast when you are wasting your time stuck looking at s screen all day. Over time the internet has increased its popularity and it has become a must in our daily lives; However, to our children, it has negative effects and leads to an unhealthy lifestyle. We want our children to live a worry free adulthood, and by restricting screen time at a young age will fulfill that need.
The question of young people and cell phone use and texting causing young people to be less able to concentrate and focus has always been a difficult one to answer. Technology gives teenagers so much but includes many drawbacks. Cell phone use and texting has it’s advantages such as teachers embracing tech,uses for educational purposes, and easy to use;however,some drawbacks are as socializing,time away from homework,and bad communication skills.
The danger that comes with communicating more indirectly is that it has gotten extremely easy to be cruel. Dr. Donna Wick, a clinical and developmental psychologist who runs Mind to Mind Parent says “Kids text all sorts of things that you would never in a million years contemplate saying to anyone’s face” (Childmind, n.d.). She states that this is typically true for girls who don’t like face to face conflict. Girls who compare themselves to other people create a lack of solid self-esteem which creates insecurity and awful feelings about yourself, which makes you want to put other people down, and because girls don 't like face to face conflict they will result to this measure of bullying through a screen. Peer acceptance is such big thing for adolescents and for many of them they care about their image as much as a politician running for authority, add to that the facts that kids today are actually getting self validation on their appearance via think such as “likes” and “comments”, that’s enough to mess with anyones head. Nasty comments posted on your wall or photo that you have posted can make you feel extremely dreadful about yourself putting you into a unhealthy, unsafe mind
There has been a long lasting debate in the resent years on whether or not technology has a positive or negative impact on today’s kids. As the years move on, the negative effects have begun to outnumber the positive. The generations previous spent their childhood making forts, fishing, and using their imaginations, contrary to today’s generations who spend their free time texting, playing video games, and watching videos. Damaging effects such as decreases in school performances, addiction to electronics, and lack of brain development have all been linked to the electronic media stimulation. In order to prevent the future generation from following in the current generations footsteps, one must full comprehend just how much technology impacts
Technology has more negative effects on today’s society than positive. Due to technology over the past few decades, Canine Shock Collars have become increasingly popular. Students in school pay more attention to texting than they do in their classes. Violent, addictive video games have made their way into American homes. Parents encourage their children to not text as much, but to face the problem of constant communication.
Mobile phones have become a way of life for many people and it may not be the best thing for their literacy, spelling, and communication skills. Mobile phones are the sole means for communication for many people, including young adolescents. In some cases they have completely replaced the thought of having a landline phone at home or in the office. A 2008 study by The Mobile Life Report found that 94% of young people in the United Kin...
There has always been controversy as to teens not being able to concentrate and focus because of texting and cell phone use. Visiting any U.S high school can show the lack of concentration and focus of students caused by using their phones. Benefits of having a cell phone can have the advantage of reporting crimes as they happen, handling an emergency, and always being connected with friends and family; however there are drawbacks such as reducing concentration, having poor grades, and causing an accident while the driver is using his phone.
Humans cannot survive physically or emotionally without the support of others (Adler & Proctor, 2011). From the day a person is born, the only way to communicate is nonverbally through facial expressions, and eye contact thus creating relationships with others. As humans grow, they progressively learn verbal skills to better express themselves. The technological advancements, and ease of accessibility to the Internet, Facebook, text messaging, and other social media devices, have become a critical part of life. However, with technological communication being relatively new, it would be important to analyze the positive and negative effects it could bring to children.
Almost every child between the ages of eight and twelve are getting cell phones. The average home in America has as many televisions as they do people. Only 20% of American homes do not have a computer. Technology is quickly becoming a new way of life. The amount of time people are on their devices is growing rapidly. According to The Huffington Post, people are on their devices for on average about eleven hours and fifty-two minutes a day. That is almost half a day and a lot longer than most people sleep or work. People have not realized yet how they or their families are being affected by this constant use of technology. As a result of technology increasing, children are experiencing health problems, school issues, and social problems.
Albert Einstein quoted, “It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.” The use of technology today is affecting our future generations by introducing them fast into using technology. Children today are focusing more on Ipads, Ipods, smart phones, or other electronic devices, rather than focusing on their knowledge. In addition, toddlers are mastering using electronic devices before they can even speak. (Alison Lee, 2013) According to research conducted by Alison Lee, it has been shown that when her child was 17 months old, he could activate the television by the use of the remote control. Although, today’s technology has also abducted the minds of adults, and It makes them addicted to it. For example, due to careless driving and many causes of death accidents, this happens from people who use their electronic device while driving their vehicle. In fact, technology is being upgraded annually, and causing more people to get addicted to it. Today’s society is very addicted to technology, that studies indicated that 2013 is the year where some human beings have an internet disorder. In addition, people who have internet disorder suffer from this condition. However, people who are overly attached to the use of technology makes them more prone to anxiety, physiological disorders like cyber bullying, and clutched to that electronic device would dominate home life.