Shut Down Your Screen Week Research Paper

Why should we participate in “Shut down your screen” week? This week is when students give-up their devices and focus on something more than Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, etc. By participating in this activity we can be focused on other things in our lives. Such as, interact more with family and friends, be more active and focus more on school. We should participate in “Shut down your screen” week, because we can be able to have more time with our family and friends. We usually don’t interact with them, because we are always on our phones or devices not communicating face to face. For instance, in the article it states that social media is socially isolating. What this means is that because we are always on our phones we don’t talk to each other without our devices. Usually we are always scrolling through Instagram checking what people have posted and if they have liked our pictures. But really we should be focusing on our family and friends seeing what they have done that day, or how their day has gone. By participating in this activity we can also be more active with our lives. …show more content…
Since we have many diferent devices we are never bored, but we are never doing anything to help our body. All we do is sit at home looking at our phones. Eventhough, not all kids have cell phones, other kids stay home watchimg television, or they're on the computer. What ever they do, thay are not being avtive with their lives, therefore not being healthy. Being off of our phones can help us be healthy, because our devices are making us just sit around the house and not do anything. In addition, getting off our devices will encourage us to focus more on our school work and