Terances mother asked him how his day was at school. “Fine” says with absolutely no emotion on his face, or in the tone of voice he used.
“OK” she says in a sarcastically-happy-voice, “That is a good way to end the school day”. They finally pull into their driveway, with the sound of gravel crunching reminding him of the gunfire of his video-game he was eager to get back to. He is at level 19 and has been staying up until the break of dawn to get where he is now. Scattered around his room are empty potato chip bags and empty Coke bottles. He has snuck those in during the night so his over-protective parents would not know what he is doing. Terance has looked like a zombie for the past week because he has stayed up to play his video-game. …show more content…
Rebecca Coxon said “ A new study shows that 1/3 of people feel overwhelmed by technology today and are more likely to feel less satisfied with their life as a whole”. Generation Z’s lives are being overwhelmed by technology as it is being added to everyday life. As technology is being added to our everyday routines society must get used to using it. That means spending hours upon hours trying to figure it out. As they spend more time figuring out the technology the more they drift away from society. It has revolutionized work as a whole. The University of UCLA conducted an experiment and here are the results, “Sixth-graders who went five days without even glancing at a smartphone, television or other digital screen did substantially better at reading human emotions than sixth-graders from the same school who continued to spend hours each day looking at their electronic devices.” The more that people spend time staring at an electronic screen, the more they drift from actually interacting with other people. These kids who are electronically addicted may soon be sitting in their parents basement wondering how they became where they are now. “Emails, texts - these lack the emotive qualities of face-to-face interaction” says parenting expert Denise Daniels. She also says “...technology can completely rewrite a child’s brain pathways in a very different way than how they would normally develop.” This …show more content…
Edudemic.com says ”More use of technology with less physical activity leads to obesity.” The Internet is a great place to find information and facts, but is also a great place for games, too. If kids stay online too long without any physical fitness it can really have a bad toll on a body. Obesity has become very bad in the United States, and has lead to many diseases. As stated by Angela Fals, “In general, kids today prefer spending hours watching TV or playing with their tablet computer instead of heading outdoors to a park or getting active with friends.” This has caused kids to be more attached to technology and not the outdoors. The outdoors is where kids go to have fun and exercise. If technology takes that away from kids, generations after will not go outside. That will continue until the outdoors are nothing but a memory. NBC news states that “Technology changes the way you eat.” As more people are pulled in by the publicity of technology they do not understand what is behind it. Technology has caused too many people to become obese. Since it has changed the neural pathways in our brain our brain believes that unhealthy food is the way to go. All of the commercials with famous athletes and actors eating McDonalds and still have healthy bodies are fakers. Our brain sees that as a good way to stay healthy, but it is not. These commercials trick our brains and that is what makes us obese.
“OK” she says in a sarcastically-happy-voice, “That is a good way to end the school day”. They finally pull into their driveway, with the sound of gravel crunching reminding him of the gunfire of his video-game he was eager to get back to. He is at level 19 and has been staying up until the break of dawn to get where he is now. Scattered around his room are empty potato chip bags and empty Coke bottles. He has snuck those in during the night so his over-protective parents would not know what he is doing. Terance has looked like a zombie for the past week because he has stayed up to play his video-game. …show more content…
Rebecca Coxon said “ A new study shows that 1/3 of people feel overwhelmed by technology today and are more likely to feel less satisfied with their life as a whole”. Generation Z’s lives are being overwhelmed by technology as it is being added to everyday life. As technology is being added to our everyday routines society must get used to using it. That means spending hours upon hours trying to figure it out. As they spend more time figuring out the technology the more they drift away from society. It has revolutionized work as a whole. The University of UCLA conducted an experiment and here are the results, “Sixth-graders who went five days without even glancing at a smartphone, television or other digital screen did substantially better at reading human emotions than sixth-graders from the same school who continued to spend hours each day looking at their electronic devices.” The more that people spend time staring at an electronic screen, the more they drift from actually interacting with other people. These kids who are electronically addicted may soon be sitting in their parents basement wondering how they became where they are now. “Emails, texts - these lack the emotive qualities of face-to-face interaction” says parenting expert Denise Daniels. She also says “...technology can completely rewrite a child’s brain pathways in a very different way than how they would normally develop.” This …show more content…
Edudemic.com says ”More use of technology with less physical activity leads to obesity.” The Internet is a great place to find information and facts, but is also a great place for games, too. If kids stay online too long without any physical fitness it can really have a bad toll on a body. Obesity has become very bad in the United States, and has lead to many diseases. As stated by Angela Fals, “In general, kids today prefer spending hours watching TV or playing with their tablet computer instead of heading outdoors to a park or getting active with friends.” This has caused kids to be more attached to technology and not the outdoors. The outdoors is where kids go to have fun and exercise. If technology takes that away from kids, generations after will not go outside. That will continue until the outdoors are nothing but a memory. NBC news states that “Technology changes the way you eat.” As more people are pulled in by the publicity of technology they do not understand what is behind it. Technology has caused too many people to become obese. Since it has changed the neural pathways in our brain our brain believes that unhealthy food is the way to go. All of the commercials with famous athletes and actors eating McDonalds and still have healthy bodies are fakers. Our brain sees that as a good way to stay healthy, but it is not. These commercials trick our brains and that is what makes us obese.