After reading "Is Internet Addiction a Health Threats for Teens?" by Leah Nash will be controversy between many but it does question are we that hook into technology? Yes there are reasons why teens use the internet such as using it to escape from high expectations that they need to achieve, or just consume by what this generation have been introduced. Dannah Boyd believes that parents are being overprotective with they are able to which makes a child petrified by the feeling that there is someone always over their shoulder which makes them go to a device and stay there, "They aren't addicted to the computer; they're addicted to interaction, and being around their friends"(Boyd).A child's mind is to do something without stopping until they are tired which they are unable to stay in one spot for a long period and stay satisfied, but are blame to be on a device which doesn't completely make sense when a child can't do something about it.
Yet again there's controversy because there are multiple things that a child can do without a device as in learning something new. When you see at the streets where usually many children play around but at, "the age of three, children should have zero screen time. It impairs social communication, development and a child's attachment to family members"(Young). A child use to a toy car or a doll using there imagination on playing tea or racing with it, but now they have a phone which they just download a app and stay on it for a while. I wonder if technology would just over take everything because how Toy R Us went out of business but would it really just make toys as a myth?- Jesus Irene
I agree with your perspective about a majority of children interacting with technoloy for comfort in interacrions and entertainment than objects, and the use of their imaginative mind. The article conveys how protective parents accuse technology as a negative influence on their children when the children have no absolute control over it. Toy companies are going out of business since there are a variety of technology games and an increase in children influenced. In my opinion, the odds are toys will be displayed not completely as a myth, because people still appreciate the comfort of toys and objects that are used for entertainment. For example, there are carnivals and claw cranes that still maintain toys and objects. After winning an item or toy, it is still often cherished and played with because the toys and items carry a memory for the people. -Trisha Theresse Cornejo
ReplyDeleteIt is one thing to read an article and agree with it, but it is another thing to completely empathize with the subject. I enjoy interacting with friends because it makes me happy to talk to my friends. it is often looked at like a terrible thing because of how often I'm on my phone, but just because I'm on my phone talking, it doesn't mean it is harmful.
ReplyDeleteAfter reading this, it brought me back AOTD because of how often the author said we only enjoy doing things that amuse us. We only want what makes us happy rather than what we actually need. I'm guilty of this but again, I don't feel like media is a bad thing.