Texting's Negative Effects On Teens

Teens have been evolving for centuries at first it started with teens getting married off and raising a family, then it changed to teens in the working force, now it’s teens getting an education, but the tables have turned. In current days, teens are spending hours on their phones. The more time they spend on their phones the more their changing. Some teens are changing for the better and others for the worse.

I think that teens constantly texting has a negative effect on all of their aspects of their life. For starters, texting constantly can hurt your eyes, with teens always being on their phones texting they strain their eyes, said Jessica Samakow from Huffington Post(1).This is a news article, the author is a culture and style writer. Her name is Jessica Samakow and she did research on teens. While she was writing this article she added a “What to do” part for each section. Some sections are teens hunching over, eyesight, and more. Also, teens tend to text at night, which makes it worse. Teens texting at night can reflect the parental supervision on the teen. Parents who allow their teens to text at night are the same parents that most likely struggle with teens grades. Teen brains don’t develop during this age that much, but this excessive amount of …show more content…
They only are to some extent, for example, when phones are used to call parents or partners in projects. Many teens don’t use phones for the school purposes, but instead for social media. Social media isn’t bad, but if you’re on it too much it can negatively affect you(3). This article is from a blog, and there isn’t an author. The article is very interesting and connects to my claim perfectly. My claim is text messaging has the greatest impact on teens being seen as unsociable. Teens could spend hours talking to people of the phone, through text, but if they don’t have person-to-person interaction they can become