With security problems and social issues arising with the increased use of smartphones, smartphones may be not such a smart idea after all. Smartphones are increasingly dominating the world of mobile phones. Smartphones have affected the world in many ways. It’s creation has changed education, how we get information, how we communicate, and how our generation has become addicted to it. Schools are starting to capitalize on the technology students love to use including smartphones, tablets, and other personal devices.
However, the documentary fails to acknowledge how the internet has helped kids by providing ways to find answers and acquire research and knowledge. Instead of exploring all the negatives found from the internet and kids growing up with the internet, the positives should also be discovered. The Frontline documentary also revealed that the internet has allowed kids to escape reality by having a “life” online. The internet helps kids express themselves through websites like MySpace, Facebook and blogs. The documentary goes on about how by letting the students have a life outside of reality can cause kids to have insecurity issues and have negative images for themselves.
The human abilities we possess have become the age of technology. Everything we do today is either computer generated or technology driven. Wynn explains that that the use of cellphones, email, texting, social network sites on the internet, instant messaging and video and internet-based games are on the rise in college settings. As students use technology as the basis of communication, social connections through technology is becoming more of the norm, and relationships are extended and not rendered. As technology increases, person-to-person interaction is becoming more connected.
Children are usually thought of as ‘sponges’ in their developmental years, and while teens are in their adolescent years, their brain is still developing, therefore it retains much of its agility, which allows it to be molded by the environment according to childrenshospital.org. This molding of teen brains seems to be in the shape of an iPhone nowadays. When holidays, phone numbers, calculations and Google are all on your smart phone, that phone is taking in the information your brain doesn’t feel the need to, therefore the phone becomes an external brain allowing us to learn more important things and skills. Some people say that cell phones, video games, and the internet have turned everyone into senseless robots with the desire to Google their emotions that they can’t compute. Actually, people would rather express their emotions though through a ‘heart’ on your Instagram picture, or a ‘like’ on you Facebook status.
The article was published in 2010, by this year; most of Rosenberg’s audience uses cellphones. Using “Everyone Speaks Text Message” as the title, Rosenberg can makes more connection with her audience, and also explains why this article was effective and convincible by publish in 2010. In this article, Rosenberg explains the history of N’Ko, and researching the technology will do for the heritage languages like N’KO. She was trying to persuade her audience that technology is not the enemy, but also helps to save those ancient languages. Rosenberg’s purpose is to show her audience that modern technology could help to per save heritage languages.
Why Retailing Have Stopped Freaking Out About Showrooming By Brad Tuttle Business Time (Business & Money) In the last decade, the cell phone industry has become a huge market among consumers of all ages. With many features such as internet, it’s like having a mini computer in the palm of your hand. This article talks about a growing practice of consumers called “showrooming”. This is when a shopper uses their phone to compare prices on internet based companies on products offered in well-known stores like Target or Best Buy. Some phones even have the capability through the use of an app to scan the barcode of the product to get prices of items offered through the web-based companies like Amazon.com or Ebay.com.
Young children are the ones who are most on social media and they see so many advertisements it is unbelievable. Companies target children because they are too young to know the truth about what they are really eating. Children don’t care about how many calories or how much sugar s in a bowl of Lucky Charms cereal, for example. But, there is only one group that can make their children stop them from eating this, the parents. Parents have the power to not make their children eat junk food and to decrease the chances of their child ending up with a long term illness.
shows, vitiates the purity and innocence of young minds. On the internet, children under the age of 18 can enter adult websites; such as Xtube, Fakku, and Redtube. Sure they ask for the age when you first enter the site, but lying is always possible. Though many people argue that it’s up to the kids to decide what they want to watch the rated contents or not, but if there is no internet then the kids wouldn’t even be watching it in the first place. Maybe adult pornography sites don’t apply to every single kid, but how about the violent, gory, and explicit video games that elementary school children play?
Children are meeting sexual predators on the internet and forming relationships with them and unknowingly allowing them into their lives. Parents must talk to their children about the dangers of the internet. Technology is a great learning tool for them and they will be far more advanced than we were as children, but it also opens the door for unwanted predators who will take advantage of children. With a society more focused on wealth and having a good job and long lasting careers some children are often left in the care of daycare providers. You can often look on the internet and find video after video of the abuse and neglect that goes on in daycares.
On the show “To Catch a Predator” the predators that fall for the bait are arrested. This is just one of the reasons why parents are becoming more worried for their children to be using the Internet. Television shows like “To Catch a Predator” have parents asking themselves, is the internet safe for my children? The internet can be very dangerous, but there are ways for parents to better insure their child’s safety while online. One great way to start protecting your children is to have a computer in a high traffic area in the house where children can be observed.