Mobile devices and their negative impacts on younger ages

Guardian News Paper

https://www.guardian.co.tt/article-6.2.348894.3750d4bbd9

How much time do kids spend on social media? Teenagers in the USA spend a staggering
nine hours a day according to a study from 2015. This includes watching TV, videos and
movies, playing video games, reading, listening to music and checking social media sites with
some 13-year-olds checking up to 100 times a day. Tweens (8 to 12) spend less, about six
hours. Kids are spending at least as much time using electronic media as they sleep and more
time than they spend at school or with their parents. Serious stuff.

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Save Our Children

From Technology
They are totally addicted
To Technology
It appears to be
Priority

Just so young
A child is handed
A phone
To keep it amused
By Technology

Then it begins
A laptop for school
An ipad for school
Is the teacher teaching?
Or the Technology?

The beeps
The dings
Another message sent

Nothing is completed
Stuff just hidden away
Having to be reminded
Again, Another day

Relaxation
A book
Simply just living
All stolen
By Technology

Can it get better

Or will it get worse
Technology...
Amazing
But
Is it really a curse

We all love it
Cannot live without it
But, what is...
Technology
Doing to Society?

13th March 2015 Lyn Paul

 Global Indian International School
https://bangalore.globalindianschool.org/blog-details/harmful-effects-of-mobile-phones-o
n-students

Children are most vulnerable to smartphones and other technological gadgets. Right from
childhood, they are introduced to smartphones. They use these gadgets to listen to music, play
games, chat with their friends, and follow social media as they grow.

The content on smartphones is not always child-friendly. Furthermore, not all parents monitor
their children when they use smartphones. As these gadgets keep kids occupied, elders, too,
find it convenient as they get the time to complete their chores.

However, they don’t realize that staring at the screens for long hours affects their kids’ eyes,
brain, mind, and also their way of thinking.

Kids also get distracted by smartphones while studying due to the constant pings of notifications
that demand instant attention. They get introduced to the virtual world via smartphones and get
immersed in it.

Often the lines between real and virtual get blurred and the kids are left confused about what is
real and what they can believe. They also tend to forget what matters and what needs their
attention as they find themselves lost in their smartphones.

Manju Nair