With 77% of teens owning a cellphone in 2001, teens are becoming more reliable on their phones that they end up losing personal connections between their peers (Powell). Parents have to be cautious of the amount of time teens spend on their phones because too much time could result in Teen Internet Addiction (Scheff). Due to the constant usage of phones or computers, teens are unable to learn life lessons through “friendships, fights, disagreements, trends, popularity, etc.” which are needed to venture into the real world (Scheff). A study by Dr. Nass and other Stanford professors was instructed to see how screen time affects girls between 8 and 12 years old, and the results showed that girls with more face-to-face communication had higher
