How Does Modern Technology Impact Teens?

HOW DOES MODERN TECHNOLOGY IMPACT TEENS?
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Updated Oct 11 2010 - 3:54pm · Posted Feb 22 2007 - 2:03pm by GeekSugar · 1 comment
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Teens all over the world are growing up in a world in which the Internet, cell phones, text messaging and other technology dominates their communication and are an integral part of everyday life. I was a teenager when AIM got big and remember how quickly everyone in my age group got addicted to chatting online. Today there is all this hype about very public breakups using modern technology, but apparently, not every teen is lost in a cyber world.
According to a researcher at Harris Interactive, teens utilize different modes of communication in different social contexts. When the tone of a communication is serious, such as arguing and breaking up with someone, teens realize that communication tools may not be the best avenue of discussion. * Two in three teens (67%) would not break up with someone and two in five (42%) would not argue with a friend over phones, email, instant messaging, text messaging, or social networking sites. * When choosing a communication tool, teens will most likely choose to use cell phones and landline phones to talk to a friend about something serious or important (cell phone 34%, landline phone 23%); apologize to a friend (cell phone 22%, landline phone 20%); or break up with someone (cell phone 14%, landline phone 9%).
For more survey results, just read more * About one in three teens say they are not comfortable gossiping, sharing secrets or having private conversations using phones, email, instant or text messaging. * Teens feel more comfortable discussing touchy subjects when using instant messaging (29%), than cell phones (14%), text messaging (11%) and social networking websites (10%). * Overall, teens are most comfortable using cell phones, instant messaging and landline phones to have a private conversation (cell phone 29%, instant messaging 16%, landline phone 15%), sharing a secret (cell phone 25%, instant messaging 11%, landline phone, 14%) and gossiping (cell phone 17%, instant messaging 17%, landline phone 14%). Teens are also more likely to hear rumors about people through instant messaging (31%) and social networking website (27%). http://www.geeksugar.com/How-Does-Modern-Technology-Impact-Teens-145330 Does Modern Technology Affect Teens? By: Sushil Kumar Singh Raghav | | | | | | | A teen wants to help change the world and make it a better place to live. He wants to be a contributor to peace, economic reforms, the improvement of public services and many other aspects of the society. To him, the best way to contribute to these changes is through modern technology.
Before the advent of the computer, the teens spent much time and effort in using their manual typewriters and had headaches in using erasing liquids, retyping their works, crumpling their papers and throwing them to the baskets. The computer changes this. Now, these teens have ease in encoding their reports, making changes and erasures and print the final work. It shortens their time, saves a lot of money for supplies and helps create presentations that wowed their teachers.
If the computer affects the teens, the internet catapulted the teens in greater heights. The internet revolutionized the way teens look at the world and the future. Through the internet, the teens are able to do research using the available engines resulting to earlier submission of their reports, assignments and other school requirements. Most of all, it gives them the opportunity to interact with other teens and discuss relevant issues making them mature and real decision makers. The internet allows them to post comments and suggestions to various organizations, government agencies and other concerned personalities. If before the teens had a hard time to criticize government leaders for their shortcomings, modern technology had encouraged them to speak up and be counted. The teen wants to be heard, and they got it!
Another technological breakthrough is the cell phone. Almost every teen owns a cell phone, some the lesser types, others the most advanced ones. The cell phone gives them access to persons they want instant contact, be it due to emergency, on issues that need urgent responses or mere social calls. Some tv networks had programs allotted for public announcements and interactions, and these teens express their criticisms, observations and requests for positive actions from the government, Problems are now attended to, thanks to the teens and their cell phones.
Modern technology is so engrossing that a teen feels helpless in accomplishing his daily tasks without the necessary gadgets, equipments and tools. Try imagining of a day that a teen has to be late because he must go to the library but has no way of informing his parents except to scamper to the nearest public phone which might be congested of callers. Or he has to find his way over dusty bookshelves to look for the needed book. What about those teens who are really shy to stand up during forums, and instead will opt to keep silent with a big idea buzzing in his head. What a pity!
These teens really want a change, and modern technology is the answer. But these teens must see to it that in order to help make a better future, they have to use technology for the common good. They must now allow these high-tech tools to enslave them, but rather, utilize modern technology to its fullest for the good of mankind. | | | http://www.streetdirectory.com/travel_guide/138679/technology/does_modern_technology_affect_teens.html How does technology affect teenagers?

Best Answer technology affects teenagers SO MUCH! infact 82% of teenagers have facebook and use facebook atleast once a day.

Teenagers communicate far more through chat sites like facebook, msn, twitter etc rather than in person.

Its more convenient and it's readily available. for example, most mobile phones these days have a facebook app automatically uploaded, and teenagers bring their mobiles everywhere ofcourse so they find it incredibly convenient that with one click of a button they are logged into facebook and telling all their friends what their doing right at that very moment.

The only down side is that a teenager may only feel confident through the chat site, and become dependent on it (or become addicted). They might become shy when talking to people in person because the experience can be quite daunting.

The benefits of using chat sites to talk to people is that you can't see their faces, therefore you can feel a little more confident speaking your mind without the feeling their staring you down.

Also if you say something wrong or affencive, you can always delete it from the chat site where as if you say something wrong or affencive face to face, the situation may not go down as smoothly.

In conclusion, teenagers prefer to use technology to communicate because it is quick and easy, they obviously do still like socialising face to face but communicating throught the internet is far more convenient.

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