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Are Teens Addicted to Their Cell Phones? Is your teen addicted to his/her cell phone? Most teens are addicted. In a study 15-19 year olds described themselves as addicted. They said they were depressed without it. I’m not addicted anymore although I used to be. The majority of teens are addicted to their phones. Most of that majority will deny that they’re addicted.When i'm walking down the corridor here in school I can’t go 10 feet without seeing another teen on their phone. I’m…

The Truth About Technology Is technology ruining the world or making it better? Technology has changed throughout the years. Technology has a positive effect on humans because people can communicate, helping kids education, and advanced medicine. Communication is the number one thing people use technology for. The technology today allows the people to communicate worldwide for a cheaper price than it was 20 years ago. In an emergency people are able to immediately contact first responders…

In modern day, a person can see a random child under the age of thirteen have a phone, tablet or gaming device. Cris Rowan, a Pediatric Therapist, implies “Children use 7.5 hours per day of entertainment technology, and 75% have a device in their bedroom.” With all this technology around young children, one wonders how technology can affect their behavior, development, and learning abilities. By the age of three months to two years old, children are exposed to their first two…

She is driving down the highway going to her mother’s house. They haven’t seen each other in months. The girl gets a text from her mother, “Where are you?” In a matter of time, the girl picks up her phone and reads the text, taking her eyes off the road. Replying, she types, “Almo-”. The text doesn’t send. The car smashes violently into another car with such high power which causes both cars to skid off the highway forcefully slamming into the brick wall standing high off the ground. Airbags pop…

Companies track everyday interactions with consumers to better there advertising and products. They should not be allowed to do this with out the permission from the consumers, it is an invasion of privacy. Many people try to avoid the outside world and keep a low profile but with big companies tracking their every move they are no longer able to live the life the want. People walking into stores and around town do not want to be watched for things they like and dislike if companies want to…

“Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation,” is an article written by Jean M. Twenge, a psychology professor at San Diego State University. Twenge has been studying generational differences for 25 years. Jean M. Twenge likes to call babies born from 1995 to 2012 “generation I” because of I phones, or smartphones. In this article, she states Generation I babies have grown up with smartphones, and because of that, they have some distinct differences that previous generations do not possess. Some of…

One of the main reason kids are to come to school, is to learn, but phones are holding students back. As a result, ninety-four percent of high schoolers are on their smartphones daily throughout school. This situation is getting worse and worse everyday, kids are focused on being on there phone in class instead of learning. How are kids ever going to set good life goals, whenever there more focused on what’s going on in there phone, then what’s happening around them at school. However phones can…

Although throughout the years, there have been bounteous inventions, this main invention has entirely changed how we live. There is an amount of many inventions being created today. But, I believe the phone has changed the way all of us live daily. Phones have changed the way we live by so many ways. First, so many children have phones at such young ages. In my opinion, children do not need phones until they are old enough to take on that responsibility. An abundant amount of adolescent…

Do you agree or disagree with your colleague’s conclusion(s) regarding the positive and/or negative effect(s) of technology within his or her chosen developmental periods? I agree with the reasons and conclusion for these different developmental periods. Children are very smart and enjoy helping older people with things that they know how to work. Whether or not you agree with your colleague’s conclusion(s), describe how one of your colleague’s stated advantages may actually be a disadvantage…

(The only other two digit percentage comes from the "don't care" category. Windows and Blackberry Phones are both in the bottom 5%) Despite some doubt about this study due to it being unearthed that Apple has been an investment banking client of Piper Jaffray, everything I see at my own school, a typical middle class public high school, confirms it. Here at CDO High School in Tucson, Arizona, iPhones are everywhere. I wouldn't be surprised if iPhones were represented at an even higher…