Dear Ms Samantha Taylor

In this report I will write about your article it had been said that teenagers spend a lot of times on their phones? This is fairly true to a certain extent we do use are phones maybe because the modern day society is boring and we need ways to communicate with our friends. The internet and social media is used for almost everything it is a great form of entertainment for teenagers I feel that teenagers should carry on to use social media.

Louis CK stated that he would not give his daughters a mobile phone teenagers love the joy of using their phone and the comfort that it is around them this understandable it is completely entertaining It is said that the social media stops teenagers from socialising with people face to face this is a untrue factor of the argument teenagers are in school or college possibly 6th form they have ways of socialising with people and friends at least five times a day this helps them communicate face to face also after school hobbies for example youth clubs where a lot of young people go to communicate this also helps and shows that teenagers are not always on their phones. As I can see from the first part of the paragraph it starts off with shocking because the girl she said that she texts about 250 times a day this is not really  a problem a lot of adults send that much emails and messages during the day so this doesn’t really mean anything. She might not have anything to do in her spare time at home or even on the bus going to her house. He also has said that it is dangerous but you can help change this, if your child uses social networking sites you can monitor what they are doing like put blockages on who they socialize with and receive the notifications that they get also he states they will not gain empathy now … empathy means the ability to understand and share the feelings of another now if you think about this you can do this at school where your children will learn this ability to communicate

“Newspapers are constantly filled with frightening accounts of pornography addiction and of aggression supposedly caused by violent video games, particularly now that Grand Theft Auto V has hit the shelves”

I agree with this possibly because the social media is full of pornography and it encourages the factor of addiction there have been cases when children have raped their friends or anyone, this is possibly because of the introduction to pornography to the younger generation, it also is something a parent would not want their child to watch at the their young age or even talk about it, also it makes parents think if they want their children even using their children using social media, its a big nightmare what you can do or can access in just the click of your mouse. Grand Theft Auto V a key aspect in violence to un mature children the game everyone enjoys playing because of its bloody and violent aspect which is too much for the younger generations brain, parents also entertain this, by buying them the game and then wonder why their children are so violent towards them or in school children should not be allowed to play these time of games until they are mature enough or even old enough parents should know this and i completely agree with this quote.

 

“According to John Henley, Teenagers are digital natives, fresh-minted citizens of a humming online world. They’ve grown up – are still growing up – with texting, MSN, Facebook, Vine, Snapchat. They’re the young, and they couldn’t care less about privacy.”

i also agree with this because of all of these social media apps that teenagers love to use can inspire them to be digital natives which means a person born or brought up during the age of digital technology and so familiar with computers and the Internet from an early age this is a great example of teenagers they spend a lot of time on these things and forget the whole factor of privacy, privacy is a key thing my example is snapchat where you snap your friends and family it lets you connect to everyone around the whole world and you can add anyone with a click share your details and what you look like, because teenagers are so intent to meet new people and gain new friends they tend to accept anyone they see that sends them a request knowing it could be a pedophile or possibly anyone who can do danger or not. Another example of the websites i agree with is facebook with 1.23 billion users worldwide this is a prime example of a big issue why? the reason i say this is because any one can make facebook and access it at any time and possibly find anyone send friend requests and view private pictures of other people. Facebook has improved over time because you can put your profile on private but…they also post things about themselves and do not even think like prvate aspects people do not need to know like your telephone number where you live where you are going and what school/college they go to. As i have said above teenagers are keen to get to know new people and do not really take that much notice on who they are adding and who they are accepting this is worrying for parents i feel that teenagers are not getting that reminder on privacy they need to be more educated on it.

“Digital communication is not just prevalent in teenagers lives but IT IS teenager’s lives. social networking sites are changing children’s brains”

i agree and disagree with this to a certain extent, the reason for this is because us teenagers love the use digital communication and it is a big part in our life towards growing up, but we are not always on it  school and other hobbies put a stop to this. Social media after school, it is big entertainment I agree it has taken over our lives but you cannot say “all” the reason for this is because I’m a teen and i’m not always on social media I despite it im hardly on it, and I feel that there are more people that come from my point of view. I also agree with the part where is explains the sentence “it is changing childrens brain” and it is they are getting too carried away constantly thinking about social media and not having the space to do homework or coursework it is taking away their education right, parents should try and cut down the use of social media and put boundaries to prevent technology taking over their brain. The thing that is entertaining this is the production  of technology it is improving in our world rapidly more and more aps are being created for younger people which distracts them even more.

This is an important topic to discuss, the world is rapidly growing and everything is evolving the use of social media is growing very fast and children are part of the online journey I feel that social media will always remain an  important feature of our lives and will never come to an edge because the introduction of more and more apps which catch the younger generations eyes and also fill their entertainment boundaries which will lead on for many more years to come.