Technology is one of the highest influence devices in younger generation. Young generations are taking the advantage of technology then create inaccessible account to their parents to communicate with others. They can have constant texting and chat through the internet secretly without being going outside their home. They are easily influenced by instagram and facebook websites. They are trying to fit in to the world by posting their personal life including posting inappropriate pictures and talk to strangers. Technology plays a role to their unsafe behaviors. They can easily meet strangers, they can do identity theft, and also they exchange text or cover up for their friends who are being out without parent’s knowledge. Young generation …show more content…
Gary Chapman talked about one particular family who has three kids. The ages of the children are under ten years old. The children are spending more time on watching movies, playing video games, and watching television throughout the day. Their parents were worried about the length of time their children are spending on technologies. “We have no guidelines,” said their dad. “We did have guidelines but could not keep them in place.” (7) The author continued with questions “Can you identify with these discouraged parents?” She describe the parents might have been trying to make a boundary to technologies however, the anger were too much to handle. The author continued that how parents get irritated with enforcing digital …show more content…
The media is not announcing the danger and effects of sexual performance, sex are spreading widely in the media and the internet. This risk is a fact on American adolescent’s life. Even though, the teen pregnancy rate dropped in United States, it is quiet twice in Europe and nine times that in Japan. And “sexual transmitted diseases (STD) are on the rise.” (54) According to James P.Steyer, the author of “The Other Parent,” “One quarter of sexually active teens – about four million kids-are infected with STDs each year,” (54) according to James P. Steyer, the author of “The Other Parent,” The most disturbing reports are AIDS. AIDS is the highest main reason of loss on the young generation between fifteen and twenty-four. (56) Those that were affected by AIDS were on their twenties and they were infected as young age.
“Get off your phone.” “I’m taking that laptop away.” Many children have dealt with their parents barging into their rooms and telling them to get off their electronics. Parents believe it is not healthy and therefore should be restricted. The two articles, “Blame Society, Not the Screen Time” by Dana Boyd and “Don’t Limit Your Teen’s Screen Time” by Chris Bergman, both talk about how parents should not limit their kid’s screen time. Both authors are writing to parents of children who they think spend way too much time on their electronics. However, Dana Boyd has a much better compelling argument for not restricting teenager’s screen time. Boyd has a much better appeal to both audiences. She manages to employ better uses of both pathos and logos
With the announcement of the new iPhone 7, and the continued release of new features and accessories, technological involvement in everyday lives is only increasing, and parents are still stuck in the past with their technological restrictions. In the news articles Blame Society, Not the Screen Time by Danah Boyd and Don’t Limit Your Teen’s Screen Time by Chris Bergman, both authors express their thoughts on this generation’s teenager’s use of technology and why guardians should allow their kids to utilize the internet. The authors use rhetorical appeals to persuade and convince their audiences technology and internet is a safe place for teenagers to find their interests and be themselves. Whereas Bergman does a better job appealing logically to the audience through pointing out parents’ hypocrisy, Boyd effectively balances ethos and pathos by gaining credibility of being a researcher in the topic of screen time and excelling in connecting with her audience
Children nowadays spend a lot of their time using entertainment technology instead of being physically active as a lot of people would remember doing as a child. From the article, “The Impact of technology on the developing child” by Cris Rowan, he says “Juggling school, work, home, and community lives, parents now rely heavily on communication, information, and transportation technology to make their lives faster and more efficient.” This means, that these devices become a large part of people's lives, due to their efficiency and reliability. Parents are heavy users of entertainment technology, which is the reason why children also use it so heavily. Rowan says, “Technology’s impact on the 21st century family is fracturing its very foundation, and causing a disintegration of core values that long ago were the fabric that held families together.” Normal family things such as going out for a bike ride together or going to the park is less common due to the use of entertainment technology by members in the family. This technology is consuming families and is hurting the foundation of what a family
In the article, “The Digital Parent Trap”, author Eliana Dockterman reveals the benefits of introducing technology to the youth. Dockterman’s purpose for this is to expose to parents that it is beneficial to expose technology to the early age. She utilizes a formal tone in order to effectively persuade her readers to believe in the pros more than the cons of screen time. Throughout the article, Dockterman successfully builds her argument by utilizing evidence, appealing to the emotions of her audience, and inductive reasoning.
Studies show that between 2006 and 2011 there was an average drop of about 30% of teen pregnancies and 50% of teens involved in any kind of sexual activity (not just intercourse) in America. According to a recent study as of 2008, teen birth rates in the U.S., (which have been declining for tw...
A report published by the U.S Department of Health and Human Accommodations “suggests that as many as 50% of all adolescents are sexually active” (White, 2008, p. 349). A portion of those are puerile women who will become pregnant, adolescent men who will contract a sexually transmitted disease (STD) and teenagers who will suffer from emotional distress and regret. Albeit the majority concurs inculcation is the solution to this dilemma, one q...
As young children, ages 12 and up to 17, one should be worrying about going to sports tryouts, having bubble guts worrying if they are going to make the cheerleading team or the basketball team. They should be outside in the summer time taking in the beautiful weather with their friends. Many teenagers are starting to build relationships with the opposite sex as early as 12 or 13. With relationships come other new experiences like sexual intercourses. “Fewer than 2% of adolescents have had sex by the time they reach their 12th birthday. But adolescence is a time of rapid change. Only 16% of teens have had sex by age 15, compared with one-third of those aged 16, nearly half (48%) of those aged 17, 61% of 18-year-olds and 71% of 19-year-olds.[1]
...hing has changed now. Children are asking for tablets, smartphones and video game consoles, rather than begging for a bike or a new doll. Traditional toys are flying right out the window literally and metaphorically. Technology purchases have been spiking very high annual amounts within the past couple of years. In 2011 alone, Americans spent $9.9 billion on video games and consoles such as Playstation 3, Xbox 360, and the Nintendo Wii, as well as accessories for all these devices. The total expense on accessories for the consoles and PC games topped $1.2 billion in the year of 2011, based on a market research firm from the NPD Group. Modern life is changing right in front of our eyes. Real life social skills are fading away slowly due to the mass desensitization from technology. But the real question is, what are we as humans going to do to regulate technology use?
Not surprisingly the lack of useful sexual information is one of the reasons of the spreading sex related diseases. According to The American Social Health Association (1998) each year there are near ten million of new cases of sexually transmitted diseases among the teenage...
Technology continues to grow and become part of everyday Life. However, more often times than not it becomes an obsession; many are consumed by the latest technological advances. People become inclined to develop addictive tendencies by never turning off or placing their devices on silent. Many agree the modern devices have helped to improve daily life at home and work. As part of today’s culture revolves around technological advancements such as phones, iPad’s; these devices are what is handed to children not as a learning tool but to distract them. Technology is a part of today’s generation; and children will continue to grow with technology, thus having a detrimental effect on their cognitive function, sociocultural and their well-being.
Sex among teenagers is one of the most controversial topics of our time. The teen pregnancy and STD rates in the United States alone have become a major problem over the years. Despite these skyrocketing sex cases, sexual education is not being taught in some schools, and the ones that do are extremely limited. Parents, the government, organizations, and school boards do not teach the proper curriculum necessary for students to thoroughly understand sexual behavior. This essay will explain the need for proper sexual education in our schools.
As disclosed in the article, The Impact of Technology on the Developing Child, Chris Rowan acknowledges, “Rather than hugging, playing, rough housing, and conversing with children, parents are increasingly resorting to providing their children with more TV, video games, and the latest iPads and cell phone devices, creating a deep and irreversible chasm between parent and child” (par. 7). In the parent’s perspective, technology has become a substitute for a babysitter and is becoming more convenient little by little. It is necessary for a growing child to have multiple hours of play and exposure to the outside world each day. However, the number of kids who would rather spend their days inside watching tv, playing video games, or texting is drastically increasing. Children are not necessarily the ones to be blamed for their lack of interest in the world around them, but their parents for allowing their sons and daughters to indulge in their relationship with technology so powerfully. Kids today consider technology a necessity to life, because their parents opted for an easier way to keep their children entertained. Thus resulting in the younger generations believing that technology is a stipulation rather than a
Smartphones have become a problem in today’s generation especially for adolescences that has shown a decline in focus and intellect in the past few years. Although smartphones are created to help make communication easier, they also affect youth’s performance and productivity in school, in their workplace, home, and their communication with adults. Other teenagers use social media to express their feelings online and to release their anger and stress. Most of the time, when teenagers reveal too much on the internet, violence and rumours can take place afterwards, which results in arguments and misunderstandings. The youth today feel as if they cannot live without their smartphones and without access to the internet. They have become highly dependent on their smartphones and this has changed the way youth interact with adults. The advancement of smartphones has negatively impacted youth’s social relationship with their teachers, employers and their parents.
Technology is one of life’s most impressive and incredible phenomena’s. The main reason being the shockingly high degree to which our society uses technology in our everyday lives. It occupies every single realm, affecting people both positively and negatively. There are so many different forms of technology but the two most often used are cell phones, and the internet/computers in general. Today’s younger generation was raised alongside technological development. Kids now a days learn how to operate computers and cell phones at a very early age, whether it be through their own technological possessions, a friend’s, or their parents. They grow up knowing how easily accessible technology is, and the endless amount of ways in which it can be used. This paper will be largely focused on the effects of technology on the younger generation because your childhood is when these effects have the largest impact. I am very aware of the subject because I am the younger generation. Aside from major effects on study and communication skills, there also exist the media’s effects on teen’s self-esteem and mental health. Maybe more importantly, there is our world’s growing problem of over priced and unnecessary consumerism. Over time, our society has created a very unhealthy form of reliance and dependency on technology as a whole. People essentially live through their devices. Cell phones are always with people making it nearly impossible to not be able to reach someone at anytime, day or night. In 2011, there were 2.4 trillion text messages sent, and 28,641 cell phone towers were added across the US. 1 We use our phones and Internet for directions, communication, information, self-diagnosis, games, movies, music, schoolwork, work, photos, shoppi...
In the twenty -first century, teenagers live in a life of social networking and life’s online. It’s hard to believe how much the world has changed over the decades, especially in technology. Technology helps people to contact relatives and friends from long distance more easily and conveniently. People can now talk to each other from everywhere in the world simply through chat and video calls. By time, internet connections have spread throughout households and social networking such as Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, and Instagram has increased gradually. However, the internet and several modern technologies have wasted many times and has hurt the society. Social media plays such a big role in people’s lives that some people couldn’t even imagine