Technology

Technology and social media are a bad habit that many people tend to do. I began using social media when i was 13 years old. I had a Myspace and a Facebook. Even though Myspace wasn’t popular i still had it. Back then there were cyber bullies, people faking their age, and not completely honest about who they really are. My mom was very protective of my accounts. She had all of my passwords and she also had to know all my friends or know of their parents. Many teenage parents worry about the exposure or the things their teenage child might see or who they might come in contact with. In today's time the parents worry less and have more understanding of what they child is doing. But they are a lot more bad influences on social media than there were 5 years ago. Teenagers keep their self occupied for up to two and a half hours on social media. Texting, on Instagram, sharing Facebook posts or even tweeting on twitter. They keep themselves busy throughout the whole day to cover up the fact that they are bored with their own lives. Teenagers also meet many of their friends on social media because meeting them in person can be a little uncomfortable. Maintaining a friendship consist of many obstacles. Social media can also ruin friendships. Say you’re grabbing a bite to eat with friends and they can’t enjoy their time because you are on your phone. That moment can cause a major problem. Your friends chose to hang out with you, not hang out to watch you scroll up and down on you Snap-chat account.

I once read an article that David Brooks wrote. In this article, David Brooks mainly talks about the attention span and how the internet is abusing it. He mentions that “you feel those phantom vibrations even when no one is texting you.’’ He uses this to describe that you’re so use to feeling your phone vibrate or even use to being on it that you absolutely think that someone is texting you. Many people rely on their social media to tell them what’s going on in the world.