While technology has improved the world in many ways and has made many day to day tasks easier, has technology and all that it can do become too accessible? Children nowadays are less limited to the world around them – they can communicate with someone across the country over a phone, research any sort of material over the internet, or send a message to someone without even the need to vocalize the actual words. The world of communication is definitely more open to the children of today. Looking around, one can easily spot a handful of children on their cell phones texting at incredible speeds. Texting has become a normal activity in the lives of many and because of this fact; many new issues have been brought to light.
English 101-B55 Essay 2 FD 10/26/2011 Technology and Social Media Between Blessing and Malediction “Technology”, “social media”: two terms that are widely spread nowadays. Everyone or the majority to not exaggerate is related somehow to these emergent extracurricular behaviors of our modern life. Some people use it with being conscious of their reality? And realize it’s a tool to achieve various tasks in the daily life; others melted in this new World making it a type of virtual schizophrenia where they are faking and sometimes isolating themselves from reality seeking intangible fame, success and recognition they might lack in real life. Technological knowledge is a must for everybody to not be left behind in a fast-paced environment we live in.
Cell Phones Affecting School In the twenty-first century, we have been bombarded with new technology and it has impact on every aspect of our life, including education. Technology advancement is one of the most essential factors for teenagers in western societies. It is booming and cell phones are only a fraction of this boom. With cell phones, adolescents are able to have an expanded social network that is not restricted by physical locations. For teens to interact with their peers, they only need to have cell phone contacts and the peer group experiences can be shared in virtually every place and time zone as long as they can access network coverage.
Electronics are literally everywhere these days. Everybody; kids, grown-ups and elderly people uses electronic things everyday and can’t imagine a single day without using it. The electronic are important in the everyday life, and it is often not possible to have a job or go to school, without using a computer or a cell phone. The use of electronic objects is so big, that it has started taking over the “space” where human relations and relations to other living things used to be. People prefer texting others rather than calling them and the internet is used to get in touch with other humans.
Toyeka Bates Professor Bey English 101-2CD 26 November 2012 Text Messaging Can Improve Writing, Not Future Success Over the past ten years technology has changed the way we communicate. Several advances in technology such as the telephone, fax machine, computer, and cellular phones have made communication faster and easier. The text messaging application allows students to abbreviate words write the way would like to. Text messaging on cellular phones is very common among those who use cell phones, especially amongst school-aged children. Everywhere you look you see children texting on their cell phones.
Cell phones: Talking and Texting With the vast majority of our country’s population using cell phones and with the advent of text messaging as a way of fast communication, people are able to communicate more easily than ever before. Cell phones are bridging communication gaps and allowing people to converse at any time instantly. However, using cell phones can be a health hazard and using them in certain situations illegal. Even with considering these concerns, text messaging has become exceptionally popular, especially with the younger generations, thus making the need for us to talk with one another almost obsolete. Talking on the phone has evolved over the years from speaking to an operator who will patch a call through to being able to dial a number on a touch screen and moments later a person is on the line.
Playing a very important role in education. It is part of everyday life having its negative and positive influences as most people come across it through their lives.However,Tecnology has mostly affected teenagers and young adults as they are exposed to the most technology in this generation, from iPods’ to smart phones, most teenagers own a Smartphone spending unnecessary amount of money on them. Young minds develop much more quickly when they are surrounded by technology, knowing more than they should know at their age .It makes them lazier and children become independent at a young age, spending more time on their gadgets than they spend with family and friends. These day 10 year olds have facebook and twitter when these sites are designed for an older group category. Technology cuts you off personal interactions and new experiences.
While being criticized generation because of their overspending, advertisers and marketers target their brands to make sure that they are geared towards these people. While many are enjoying their golden years, Baby Boomers’ buying power is unstoppable. This is even truer when it comes to the use of the Internet. The generation was able to witness the transition between a typewriter to a personal computer, snail mails to e-mails, telephone calls to Facetime, and more. According to Jessica Naziri of USA Today (2015), while the current generation is considered to be more advanced when it comes to the use of technologies, the Baby Boomers are not lagging far behind.
Smartphones today are the center of your pop culture. Pop culture is more of a personal liking from one person to another were as the dictionary states general mass of people. It is each as own. Although not used in our lexicon back then - modern pop culture (as we know it) began with the baby boomer generation and "buying power." As boomers came of age with their disposable incomes - that influence led the pop culture revolution.
Kids still need to be limited on how often they are using the technology. Exposure to technology isn’t all bad, yet there are numerous negative effects of technology on children. Many parents face the complex decision of the right age of having a cellphone. With advertisements of cellphones showing their main characters as teenagers and preteens, the peer pressure on our kids today is overwhelming. Most teens have their first cellphone by freshmen year of high school, which seems acceptable.