While going through my Room For Debate: Is Internet A Health Threat For Teens? , I came across the article, "Blame Society, Not The Screen Time", by Danah Boyd. One quote that stood out was, "We put unprecedented demands on our kids, maxing them out on structured activities, homework, and heavy expectations...For many teenagers, technology is a relief valve." This personally connected to me because I always have plenty of homework and extracurricular activities to handle. So whenever I do have a little time to myself I find myself on my phone usually texting a friend. For many students their work load is heavy which prevents them from being able to go out and have fun with friends. With the very little time we do have we find ourselves conversing online. This is normal because as humans we are social creatures that thrive on communication. So my answer is that Internet Addiction isn't a health threat for teens. The only thing that may be a health threat is our work load that prevents us from human interaction.
-Annie Givhan
I agree that we do have a large work load for our young age however, we shouldn't spend our time communicating with each other online. If we have time to be able to be online and text for long periods of time then we should be able to communicate with each other in person to be able to communicate with more emotion and you feel the conversation. Too much online communication will cause people to be socially awkward and unable to communicate in person. I believe people should communicate more in person rather than just going online. That should be used only for emergency messages or to communicate someone that's in another state or area of the state.
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