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The article explained the use of social media and its impact on our society and generation. The article mentioned some statistics to show some effects of spending to much time in front of a screen and if all this technology is connected to teen depression, problems with our social interaction and our mental health.“We want to be engaged intellectually, and we are being engaged through our phones.” Parents are stuck with 2 ideas in their head: “Don’t worry about it, kids are kids, at least they’re not doing drugs, let me get back to my own phone.” Or there’s the impossible one: Wrench those phones out of your teens’ hands and tell them to go straight back to 1985, right now, no backtalk. But the article also talked about another perspective of the question “Does social media cause teen depression?”, They thought about if it’s instead the other way around where people who are already depress use more social media for solace. But which one came first? The social media or the depression? Our modern population has rapidly changed from before but for the worse or better?
2 Questions that I now have as a result of today’s conversation?
Whats going to happen next, the majority of us all have social media, but what will become of our generation later on, will our rapidly growing population that is increasingly overfed, malnourished, sedentary, sunlight-deficient, sleep-deprived, and socially-isolated be worse than how bad it already is now ?
What would our generation be like if phones and such advanced technology didn’t exist, would we have become better people and have better lives?
I found it interesting that you included the 2 perspectives parents have about leaving their child with phones or taking it out of their hands. This is a complicated problem we have right now, considering that children were born with technology while some of our parents weren’t. It’s hard for both sides to imagine what it’s like to have a phone and not.
I also found the theme ‘depression’ interesting. I kind of agree that maybe people like to use phones as a tool to comfort themselves, but I’m not really sure whether depression or solace comes first. So I think that’s a good question you have there.
Maybe you could’ve wrote your own thinking/ideas about whether having our phones and social media changes the world for the better or worse.